Went to Ernie Tollar’s show tonight. He has a beautiful tone and a beautiful sense of melody and excellent facility. Growing up I loved the Keith Jarrett + Jan Garbarek […]

The Mendelson Joe night is shaping up with these people confirmed – Steve Koch, Robert Priest, Cathy Young, Sarah Wong, Honey Novick, Kevin Roach, Minyoung Lee, Soozie Schlanger, Tor Lucasik-Foss […]

Dear SRO management: I’m making another tribute night to Mendelson Joe at the Tranzac club on Saturday Feb 8th.If Geddy Lee wants to play I will make a spot for him. […]

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 […]