A musician watched a video of a woman skiing down a narrow steep cliff and it’s intense. What also stood out was it starts with the skier saying to herself […]

Organizing a night of people playing songs by Mendeslon Joe or reading his writing. Saturday Feb 8th. I hope the old cranky bluesman’s ghost is conjured. I invited performers from […]

I listened to a singer songwriter on stage tonight introduce each of her songs by talking a little too long about her relationship with her father or her thoughts about […]

Sometimes I read from musicians who worked with Bob Dylan, that unannounced he changes time signatures. They make it sound like intentional testing them. I have had that experience where […]

Part of what I looked forward to, in performing at the UJPO fundraiser last week, was that Naomi Klein was the main speaker. Many years ago I was asked to […]

There was an opera singer who realized at a young age she could be so critical as to make herself feel inadequate so much so that she could quit singing, […]

Lenny Breau had a heroin problem and a staggering talent problem. I met a person once who told me they attended a concert at The Ting in Winnipeg, a small […]

I tell the students on the first day of the lyric class, I can’t teach them how to write a song. I can show you how driving a car works, […]

I am agreeing to all the new ideas about the Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube, X world. New ideas on how to play with many sides. Starting w Instagram and […]