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 […]

Tony Dewald’s obituary surprised me and was disappointing because the descriptions said nothing about being a monster. Anyone who was there knows that was no man but a monster. Yes, […]

There was a lyric in one of Sam Larkin’s last songs that referenced an older man adjusting to aging and the memories he no longer holds reliably. At one point […]

I played a benefit the other night at the club that was owned by that jazz singer in the junction who died much too young a year ago. At her […]

Summer session over. Most passed some not. The fails often do so because they never came. Unattended classes beckon the question who spent the money and pourquoi? Often it is […]

Watching the tv series A French Village again. On Kanopy now. So amazing. I love so many of these actors and the idea of recreating another time and place. Art […]

First concert I ever saw, Winnipeg playhouse John Mayall and it stunk because they were drunk and living their hippie dream. All wasn’t lost, eventually they tried to do Room […]