General Happening

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Musicians know the person in the background is sometimes holding the entire structure together. The drummer who never overplays but somehow defines the feel of the track. The arranger who […]

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She played little rooms that smelled like bleach and hauled her gear through snow. Reviews used words like challenging and idiosyncratic. She taught lessons to pay rent, smiling while explaining […]

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No one expected the monks to walk into Smokey Joe’s Stage last Monday. It attracted the usual suspects. Dana Lalonde who now calls her self DL, Robertson who plays instrumentals […]

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Thanks for listening to my music this year. December had a nice four city tour of Montreal, Brockville, Chelsea and Burritts Rapids…though I forgot my merch in Montreal. oh well. […]

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Almost every date for the Western Canada tours confirmed. Now we stare at the real puzzle. Where to sleep each night. A few dates come with hotels. Others are a […]

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Sometimes the parents of my daughter’s friends know my background and are excited I am who I am (did I just Popeye?) and suddenly I’m a bigger deal in her […]

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A swarm of ideas breeding in those songs I started in Sweden. Like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle while the pieces are melting, somehow still sounds beautiful once you […]

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The Swedish mixes keep floating along like little boats on a pond that forgot which way the wind blows. I sit there, paddling. Bass lines bump into echoes, harmonies bump […]

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Almost finished my Framing Document. The strangest part is attributing importance to what I wrote. The project was important to me but whether or not others find meaning in it.. […]

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Funny how I’ve spent these recent years qualifying for a PhD to get a full time teaching job, (a job I could have taught just as easily 7 years ago […]