Squamish felt like a night where the categories people carry around quietly give up and go home early. James has a heavy metal band, though he talks about it with […]

Powell River arrived the way certain dreams do. Quietly, then all at once you’re inside something with its own logic. Jason promoting the show. Electrician by trade, mountain climber by […]

The Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek feels like a place where conversations never end. Pause a few years, pick up again when someone wanders back through the door. Joe was […]

Nanaimo arrived on a hill. Not the polite incline of Toronto sidewalks but the kind of hill that makes you feel we’re in San Francisco by mistake. Streets as if […]

In Duncan time got curious and decided not to move so fast. The performance space “the Showroom” assembled from good intentions and objects that refused to die. Everywhere you look, […]

The woman selling tickets turned out to be a hotel maid. Not permanently. She told me she was graduating to become a cosmetician. Another woman was a beauty expert who […]

Tyrant Studios in Vancouver does not announce itself so much as reveal itself in layers. You walk in thinking you are going to play a room, and then Daniel, musican/ […]

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 […]