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For years, a musician slept in fragments, ten minutes here, twenty there, always waking like someone had woke him from a dream before the note could resolve. His friends said […]

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The whole thing hit me like a peyote flashback dipped in Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the moment I walked into the Sybil Goldstein art show. The room vibrating the way ghosts make […]

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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 […]

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In the summer of 2026, Mona the cellist hitchhiked along Highway 17. Forest fires had been burning for weeks. Some days the air smelled like a campfire. Mona carried her […]

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I have a friend whose life turned out to be tuned in a key I didn’t recognize. For the longest time, I thought he was just living inside a streak […]

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People you meet in life who arrive older, wiser, and quietly tuned to your frequency, those are gifts. They show up unexpected. You honour them by listening, by catching whatever […]

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I’m performing in Stratford soon, the town where Richard Manuel first learned how to turn feeling into music. It’s strange and moving to bring my songs into the place that […]

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Felix Messer, pianist, part-time teacher, full-time cynic and distant relative of Don Messer, never intended to crawl into Bach’s head. It just happened, the way bad drugs or good revelations […]

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There was a saxophonist, high-cheekboned, soft-spoken, known everywhere as a gentle man. The kind of sweetness people mention as if it were a credential. But sweetness can be a costume, […]

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Twice now I’ve stumbled across Jian Ghomeshi on Instagram, delivering moral sermons to the camera. I’m with him on Iran, but perhaps he should explore a different career, one that […]