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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Jerry Leger and Don Stevenson , Dana Gavanski, Austra, Nation of Language, NYSSA, PUP, Scenic Route to Alaska, Low Floats, All We Are, and the Happy Fits

Will McGuirk August 7, 2020

By Will McGuirk

To have hope but not faith. To continue although experience says other. To build, to make, to write, to sing, to continue. forward . . even as 2020 becomes a year of looking back and accepting we collectively took the wrong fork in the road. Will we ever learn? Look to the artist as they forge ahead, voyageurs on the stream which engulfs the rest of us.



“At the moment, living in a complicated quarantine surrounded by invisible (and not-so-invisible) plagues upon us, fragmentation is palpable: a splintering of social ties, of nature's capacity to regenerate, of something vague that once felt stable and now feels unreal...... All of these things hover between us and within us.” - Peter Burr, Austra art collaborator


“I have this idea in my head that our music generally feels out of place against the backdrop of summer, but the dynamic of the city in its current condition really captured the solitude and confusion behind the song in a way that feels compelling.” - James Thomson, Nation of Language


“‘The Swans’ is a present day, apocalypse-era reply to Springsteen's ‘Dancing In The Dark’ or Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’. I wrote it before the pandemic, but in anticipation of the need to live above and against the fire and brimstone, to forever fall in love with the natural world. “ - NYSSA



Scenic Route to Alaska · Closer
Low Float · Here Before


Tags Auteur Research, Killbeat, Indoor Recess, Pavement PR, The Syndicate, Jerry Leger, Don Stevenson, Dana Gavanski, Austra, NYSSA, Nation of Language, PUP, Scenic Route to Alaska, All We Are, The Happy Fits
Rob Baker, via supportcanadianvenues.ca

Rob Baker, via supportcanadianvenues.ca

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Once A Tree, Twin Flames, Luca Fogale, Dana Gavanski, Astral Swans, Mo Kenney, and Color Fields

Will McGuirk July 14, 2020

By Will McGuirk

Music is fuel. Music is medicine. A music city is a healthy city. A music city is a wealthy city. Music is also labour not only leisure. Music is also work not only play. Slowcity.ca urges all our supporters to contact your local government reps to support for live music venues.


“We live in a world where people want instant gratification. But sometimes, chasing after that can leave you feeling empty, and the things that used to feel like magic lose their lustre.” - Once A Tree


“In the Arctic of Canada, Inuit People face the highest amount of suicides in the world, ‘Battlefields’ is a song to remind our people we have to fight our own minds to survive…” - Jaaji, Twin Flames



“I wrote this song as a reminder to myself and anyone listening to search for beauty and meaning in every piece of this life, however simple or complex, no matter the circumstance. 
- Luca Fogale



“Due to the ongoing revelations of harrowing injustice, and systemic racism against BIPOC throughout North America, all Bandcamp sales of “Bird Songs” will be donated to AWO TAAN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY based in my hometown of Calgary, AB, Canada.” - Astral Swans


“This song has a real solitary, lonely vibe that I think really reflects the times we’re all living in right now.” - Mo Kenney


“Animal is a song about our tendency to hide our true selves from one another, and what happens when we stop,” - Scott Packham, Color Fields

Tags Dana Gavanski, Killbeat, Auteur Research, Once A Tree, Indoor Recess, Twin Flames, Astral Swans, Mo Kenney, Luca Fogale, Nightshop Media, Black Panda PR, Color Fields

Frazey Ford, photo by Alana Paterson

Slowcity.ca Open Mic - Frazey Ford, Dana Gavanski, Ben Lee, Paul Kelly, Bombay Bicycle Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Richard Dawson

Will McGuirk January 21, 2020

By Will McGuirk

Slow for a reason, slow for the season, but planning, gathering, building, building, building - isn’t that what a snow fort is for? And did you notice as you stood on the turrets the sun shone longer.


“There’s certain songs that just appear and there’s no art to it. To me those songs have some kind of spiritual quality—sometimes I feel like they’re these different voices that you’re able to channel. There really was something magical about the improvisational aspect and how that shaped the album, and such a joy in the experience of really reveling in what we were all creating together.” - Frazey Ford

"a conversation with the gods of creativity, an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how not to lose direction."  - Dana Gavanski





“I think I always want to see hope in the darkness, and I like to try to share that,” - Nathaniel Rateliff


Tags Dana Gavanski, Killbeat, Ben Lee, Paul Kelly, Jason Schneider Media, Nice Marmot, Bombay Bicycle Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, Indoor Recess, Hard Copy Media, Richard Dawson, Frazey Ford
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