Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Jadea Kelly, Geoffroy, Frazey Ford, Favours, Lumineers, Scott Hardware, Ellyn Woods and Baile, Riches, and Sloan,

By Will McGuirk

"Escaping" is a song about the secrets that you keep inside. Forget the past and leap forward. Don't look back, it's not worth your time.” - Favours

“This idea of coming home to yourself after losing yourself in a world of disillusionment. The point when you realize everything you need is already within yourself. Letting go of all that isn't you, to rediscover who you are.”   - Ellyn Woods, Baile

“This song marks a deep dive into my changing thoughts about nostalgia, seeing it change from cozy romanticism to toxic waste." - Scott Hardware

Live Slow Die Wise - Geoffroy

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Ghostkeeper, Real Estate, Frazey Ford, All We Are, Milan André Boronell, Jacob Weil, Ehsan Matoori, and Clinic,

By Will McGuirk

"’U Kin Be the Sun’ explores the vast and eternal within us, the reoccurring ancient mythology of the individual as the universal, as light, as the sun..” - Frazey Ford

“What is to live, if not to eat and drink and breathe and to love.” - All We Are

"Love is Love! When you saw someone and fell in love with them, it did not matter what their sex is. Love comes from the heart. The soul only demands love and takes peace from it.” - Ehsan Matoori

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Jacob Weil · The Next Show

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

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.

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“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

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

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