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Award-winning songwriter, poet and ironic social commentator evalyn parry is gifted with a sharp pen, a quirky musical sensibility and a wicked sense of humour. From 19th century cycling heroines to 21st century sailors; from “feminine protection” to bottled water to the quest for the Northwest Passage, evalyn’s outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred.
December 6 is the National Day of Rememberance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The wonderful metis film maker Cara Mumford created a film that using the poem I wrote about this sober anniversary. It’s available on youtube this December, please have a look and listen, and share widely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G7SRicwpT0
I’ve been working with playwright / performer Tawiah M’Carthy on his one man show “Obaaberima” over the last couple years: it grew out of Buddies’ Young Creators Unit, and it’s a beautiful, brave, poetic and challenging piece of theatrical storytelling. This December 8-10, it will have three “workshop presentations” at Buddies, and I hope you can come see and share in our process of development.
Lovely news yesterday, which is that the SPIN cd has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award, in the “Pushing the Boundaries” category. We are in very good company, with New Country Rehab, Jaron Freeman Fox, Twilight Hotel, Ruth Moody and Geoff Berner as fellow nominees: all fantastic bands / musical innovators. Keep your [...]
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word is happening here in Toronto this week; so many awesome events, artists and showcases happening all week and weekend, and of course i would be remiss if i didn’t mention that SPIN was having a special day-time presentation at the festival, Thursday Oct 13 at 4 pm, at the Festival headquarters, the good ol’ Tranzac club, where in fact SPIN had it’s very first” baby” presentation a couple years ago.
First up, the Sept 21 show (tonight!) at Theatre Passe Muraille with Kevin Fox has been cancelled! Very sorry for the last minute notice. October will be the month of showcasing SPIN around the country: Brad and i head to beautiful Prince Edward Island next week to showcase SPIN at Contact East; then we’ll be [...]
There’s going to be a fun show at Horseshoe Tavern this Thursday August 11: the Bikes Rock kick off party for the 2011 Toronto edition of the annual Bike Film Festival, and Brad and I are playing a set of bicycle-accompanied tunes from SPIN, along with CHRISTIEN SUMMERS , OCTOBERMAN and The MELIGROVE BAND it [...]
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