Thrilled folks are digging LULL: Sounds for Sleep. Find it on Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, or any other platform you dig. Thanks to Andrew Waterman at The Telegram for this great piece. Check out the audio portion. It was lovely chatting with a fellow musician about what we love: MUSIC! Thanks to Ramraajh Sharvendiran at CBC NL in...

CHECK OUT MY FIRST CHRISTMAS SINGLE EVER! Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. How The Grinch Stole Christmas Everyone met a grinch this year. This solo guitar version is tailor made for those to like to clomp around at a distance and get into the spirit...

2. Barry Elmes – Climbing I’ve told this story a hundred times but never written it down till now. As Canadian jazz festival season is in full swing, it seems appropriate to finally pen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwfmfyndYAQ Long ago in a land where jazz was valued, touring Canadian bands would come to St. John’s NL and record at the...

Join myself, George McFetridge (piano), James Young (double bass) and Paul Fitterer (drums) at the intimate Martin Batchelor Gallery Saturday April 28, 2018. We'll play an opening set of new music, but then things really get interesting. We'd like to experiment with a kind of "improv salon" where musicians, poets, dancers collaborate with us in the...

[photo Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images] In my recent youth, me and Mark Neary were typical arseholes. We knew it all.  Tinkling his parents Young Chang during a break from a Trimmed Naval Beef rehearsal, we hatched a scheme. “What if we just made posters that said GORD NEARY: ONE NIGHT ONLY?” Mark’s dad, to the best of my knowledge then...

Victoria BC cannot say that it experiences 'winter' in the wider Canadian sense. People are mowing lawns today. I've very much enjoyed rediscovering my love of ice skating this year. In a small way, it connects me to colder friends in far flung places. No matter where you are, you can enjoy this curation of classic...

One of my biggest problems is not stepping on records and CDs when I wake up. They consume my house and my office, and before my very tolerant wife decides to go back to Philip Glass, I thought I could try and make these stacks of wax more urgent. I have a weird and wonderful collection...

Photo: Patrick Boyle Teaching music at university is simultaneously a constant joy and a constant dance of compromise. If I am being completely honest, I can’t teach music. I can show it. I can listen and guide. I can be an example of my own best self, including all manner of new and evolving flaws and...

Photo credit:  Studio Bee Creative. During my undergrad, I did most of my elective courses in the Summer session so I could exclusively concentrate on music during the Fall and Winter. This was a great move because university in the summertime is a paradise. You get the whole place to yourself. All bathrooms become your bathrooms. One summer,...