Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Yves Jarvis, Jason Collett, Alyson McNamara, Treephones, Ariel Posen, Jehnny Beth

By Will McGuirk

Its the music, it moves us all, the common bond which binds our feet in dance, I advocate for orchestras to be at the forefront of the revolution.

"When in the future we recall Saint Patrick’s Day 2021, let us have returned with even more energy to music as we lift the glass slowly, and replenish it even slower. Music and creativity were our resource in the pandemic, and in the music of the heart is rehearsed that for which words are insufficient, feídearachtaí ag heitheamh dúinn – forms of renewal, possibilities rehearsed, journeys to wonder and new places."
- President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins

“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea” - W.B. Yeats

“When you better yourself, you better the world. Even if you only interact with one person in your life, the effect of trying to see things for what they are is vast. Change can feel like a fantasy, but I’m not fatalistic about it. I make music because I get results that way. It’s why I promote creativity, whatever that means for anyone.” - Yves Jarvis

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“Crab Walking” is less a lament for times disappeared than it is a unifying call for the present. “Old haunts and landmarks that once were and are no longer. Conjuring good memories of good times” - Jason Collett

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“Despite how badly you can be treated by someone, sometimes we refuse to see ourselves being with anyone else.” - Ariel Posen

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“I almost didn’t put it on the record because it is so close to the bone it almost feels too self indulgent, but it was my intention to write a song that felt more vulnerable than anything I had ever written before.” - Jehnny Beth

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Denise Chaila, Rachel Beck, , Lynn Jackson, Liza Anne, Grace Potter, and Jehnny Beth

By Will McGuirk

Waves of karma lap the edges of the gilded palaces. Gate keepers shovel heaps of broken promises trying to stem the tide, trying to buy some time but the palaces crumble still from within.

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“We are now living in a different world than we were when I wrote these songs and captured these sonic vibrations, these soul vibrations. It has been a challenging year, yet all around me I see people stepping into their power, finding their voices, and discovering their strength.” - Rachel Beck

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“This song is about feeling the weight of someone else’s sadness and feeling it, inevitably, bring you down too because when you love someone, sometimes you wear their emotions like your own.”  - Liza Anne

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic wit the Jerry Cans, Rachel Beck, Grace Potter, Monica Lee, Carmanah, Jehnny Beth, Lost Frequencies and Joy Invincible

By Will McGuirk

‘You are stronger than you know’ a new song by Rachel Beck but also a call to arms, stay home, stay still, you can do it , be it - we are learning that - for many of us we are not being asked to do much it seems but staying still is still not natural, mobility is at the essence of being - we are beings who move, who migrate, but meditate mmmmm. . . but you can do it, you can go in, deep, and listen to the stillness between the rushings, the sounds in the silences. Rachel Beck’s voice is thrilling as the transitions, her song thrives in the liminal, we are stronger than we think if we can think of the gaps as bonds.

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“For me, music has been a safe haven in these strange times. As we learn to adapt to a new human condition, I wanted to share a couple of new recordings that feel timely.  It’s so important that we not feel alone right now. More than anything else, I just wanted to send a little musical comfort out to the world.” - Grace Potter

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