Some friends thinks I need reassurance when I write about feeling like I lost the crowd. I have felt like I lost crowds many times, I have also had experiences […]

After the show in Hamilton last weekend I wish I was booked everywhere else. So much energy goes into acquiring a teaching job but it would be so much simpler […]

I ended the Hamilton show earlier than I intended because it felt like I was losing the audience before getting to the classical pieces. A pity because I don’t really […]

Missed the open stage at Tranzac the other night, too bad. Wanted to test playing 10,000 Miles or Bhopal on piano instead of guitar. The more you do it before […]

On my way to speak at Ryerson (hoping someone would get angry at me for calling it by it’s former name), I passed a guy a Yonge station with an […]

Last night a guy off the top wanted to play drums which was unusual. Presumably his first time here, I never saw him before. Sometimes people take up a lot […]

One guy walked into the Sam Larkin night at the Tranzac last month and he didn’t know anything about the event. He used to live in the neighbourhood 40 years […]

I enjoyed Danny Lanois improvising with electronics and Aaron Neville’s voice singing Amazing grace off the top at his secret Hamilton show last week. It was soon however very annoying […]

I am playing a show in Hamilton next month. At Glen Marshall’s recording studio space concert space. A first show ever out of town for my own songs, maybe 1989, […]

In the group homes where I worked once upon a time, there were many people with unusual flairs for describing the world. A tough young woman named Janice stood out […]