There is a special branch of human endurance reserved for travelling with musicians you do not like. You share vehicles that smell like hot fast food and unresolved childhoods. You […]

The Maritimes shows are starting to confirm for October, and it’s giving the fall a kind of shape I didn’t realize I was waiting for. I originally planned to fold […]

I did 20 shows this year. But next year already has 50 dates confirmed + perhaps I will also be accepted to some folk festivals I applied for (one finds […]

Playing La Sala Rossa was a high-water moment. The place I’d been aiming for, for years. In memory it had grown monstrous, twice the size, maybe more. Memory does that. […]

In Brockville I got an encore and asked Tom to sing with me. I thought he might know “Satisfied Mind” he did not, but it didn’t matter. Beautiful and personal […]

We took a walk around the island. John showed me the water seepage problem he is dealing with, something practical and quietly alarming, the sort of issue that waits patiently […]

I liked playing Chelsea. That part is simple and true. The room listened. I sold six books, which today’s economy qualifies as a small miracle. One woman wanted a book […]

I’m looking forward to Vallican, near Nelson. Because I’ll be staying with Tamara and Misha. If memory serves me right, on their farm they have horses, chickens, dogs and many […]

At the natural foods store, I noticed, high on the wall an 8×10 photograph. It hung there like a family portrait. The name beneath it read Pegger’s Banquet. I laughed, […]