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I’m sitting on the bus, heading to Montreal for a show tomorrow night at Petit Campus, with the wonderful PEI singer-songwriter Teresa Doyle.  You know how I love the bus –  I don’t know why, but I do. Not as much as the train, of course – but honestly it’s a close second.   So much [...]

April is my birthday month, so i always feel a special love for this fourth month of the year.  There have been some special and lovely things going on, and more coming up in May. Topping the list of lovely is that about three weeks ago, we adopted a new dog.  His name is Fox, [...]

In a few weeks, SPIN goes to Montreal (March 22, at Edgy Women), plus there are a few other fun shows this month (a historical storytelling series at the Waterloo Regional Museum, Nightwood Theatre’s annual FemCab, and more). I am working on a brand new little topical piece, which is a rant about Toronto’s insane Mayor, Rob Ford..

Coming out a period of winter web-hibernation, with a new resolution to post updates and blog entries more often in 2012. We begin today! This month there are a bunch of fun performance things upcoming, let me tell you about them. First on Feb 9th, i’m taking part in a cabaret hosted by the lovely Kristin Sweetland, at the always excellent Cameron House.

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 [...]