By Will McGuirk

Pause. Do you recall when we paused. Not that long ago. Have you forgotten in your rush to go back before the pause. Pause again and recall the pause. Time to contemplate, take the time to reimagine what you want the future to look like and importantly to sound like. What voices do you want to hear, whose voices do you want to hear from? Pause again and listen.

Ketch Harbour Wolves · 04 - Exodus

“The song, with its slow atmospheric build and sombre lyrics, is a reflection on a city undergoing massive change: influxes and exoduses; appropriations and dispossessions, caused by intentions that range from the benevolent to the unkind.” - Ketch Harbour Wolves

“The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record. We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy amongst the sorrow”. - Richard O’Flynn, All We Are

By Will McGuirk

Opening even as its getting closer, its a balance. There’s anxiety, bravado, averted eye determination, and a strange nostalgia for that slower time, even though it came packaged in privilege. We may be all equally vulnerable but we are not all equally impacted.

“This is a song for the unsung heroes,” the Blood, Sweat & Tears frontman shares. “I wanted to say thank you to the paramedics, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, essential workers…

“I wanted to say thank you to all of the folks that put their lives on the line every day in dangerous and uncertain times.”

“I was reading through old poems and journal entries and circling the drain of my own sorrow stories, which felt like a bit of a wake up call. I have all these ideas of what taking care of myself looks like, but I tend to get in my own way. Bummer Days is me calling myself out. I am the only person who will take responsibility for my emotional and mental health.” - Liza Anne

“Music in general makes people feel good but especially at this time it is so important to make sure the people and the staff who are working so hard are given a moment to breathe and ground themselves through this.” -Jesse Maxwell

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Idles, Troy Junker, Thea May, Moscow Apartment, , Ketch Harbour Wolves, Glassreel, Bullrider, and All We Are

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Owen Pallett, David Clayton-Thomas, Idles, Liza Anne, Jesse Maxwell, Royal Canoe, Margo Price, and Rich Aucoin