Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Tennyson King, Clever Hopes, Jay Feelbender, Houndmouth, Jean-Michel Blais, Cassidy Mann, and Neil Young

By Will McGuirk

“It’s putting off the break up because even though you know it’s the right call, it sucks to do. I’ve been on the other side of that situation too and it’s not fun either way. But heartbreak happens to everybody and you can’t control it, you just have to feel it and know that eventually it will pass. Because it will.” - Cassidy Mann

“I want it to be something that they can put on and feel like they have a friend telling them stories, letting them know they are not alone, sharing my life with them and personally singing songs to them.” - Tennyson King

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Tears for Fears, Ouri, Sunglaciers, daysormay, Megan Nash, Opengo, faride, Louie Short, and Houndmouth

By Will McGuirk

“Before everything went so right with this album, everything first had to go wrong, it took years, but something happens when we put our heads together. We’ve got this balance, this push-me-pull-you thing – and it works really well.” - Roland Orzabal, Tears for Fears

“‘Just Existing’ has been a long time coming. Some of these songs have been around for 2+ years, while the others are brand new. It's been a crazy process of stitching it all together, we've never approached an album like this before, it feels new.” - daysormay

“It’s probably the most vulnerable I’ve been with my lyrics so far. Not sure how it will feel to have it out in the world but I was honest with myself when I wrote it in the Fall of 2019 - heartbroken but hopeful, nervous but willing.” - Megan Nash

"My grandmother had an uncommon perception of people's needs. It wasn’t a surprise to my mother when I started having premonitions and intuitions as a child. This song felt feminine and powerful and I wanted to capture the matriarchal wisdom of many ways of knowing." - farideh

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Opeongo · maybe maybellene

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