the rejection of Sam Larkin’s grant application
Using your own definitions of your art form, your community and your artistic career, how will this project impact each? This project will impact my art form (composing/performing) by […]
Songwriting
bias
I have a friend at the open stage who complained about a Warren Zevon song called Keep Me In Your Heart. She said it sounded so sappy. I told her […]
hello ceiling
“I know about it, sure. What you do Bob, you come to the room early when no one’s there and you say hi to the floor and then you look […]
light bulb
Sometimes I can see the moment the light bulb went off in his head, all those years ago, he couldn’t help himself. Another year, another try to get through without […]
doo doo doo doo doo
In a grocery store tonight and suddenly Suite: Judy Blue Eyes came over the speakers. At 14 I found that song’s ending so powerful, shook me to my core. Listening […]
don’t go breaking my heart
Years ago before saint Jack Layton died I remember reading about his father’s death and the family crowded around him singing. Death with musical accompaniment, I thought that was honourable. […]
lock the gates Goofy
Ron Sexsmith wrote a song called Speaking With The Angel and when I heard it it sealed the deal on us working together. The lyric surprised/ impressed me, thought it […]
guards will light my smokes for me
I saw some groups over the years position themselves doing something shocking or use a shocking image. I wondered about what that type of art does in the world. Some […]
halting tsunamis with song
Formulating my paper/ proposal. Looks like a study of two songwriters who are pretty different from each other, singer songwriter and rapper. I’ll follow them through writing, rehearsing, performing and […]
The Guy Who Sneered
I never knew his material too well but I found myself in the back room of the Cameron one night and he was playing a stripped down show. He told […]