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

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Hayden Thorpe, Jacques Green, Richard Dawson and Evangeline Gentle

Will McGuirk September 12, 2019

By Will McGuirk

The night symphony in full voice in the garden which earlier played host to monarchs idling their way south, holding on to another hour dancing in the sun, like me holding on to another hour outside, reluctant to leave this still night and the companionship of the Harvest moon.

Slowcity.ca Open Mic - easing into it - with A Tribe Called Red, Tyler Childers, The Bobby Tenderloin Universe, New Pornographers, Half•Alive, The Wild and Reay,

Will McGuirk August 6, 2019

By Will McGuirk

What day is it? Does it matter? Have we moved past measuring our time in 24 hour chunks, have we moved past measuring time at all. DO dates matter, maybe, do days matter? Does this seven day cycle matter - well I will say the cycle of the seven does, at least in years, at least in my life plan it does. Are we moving from days to moments, from moments to the now?

Here and now stepping up for their moments are A Tribe Called Red, Tyler Childers, The Bobby Tenderloin Universe, New Pornographers, Half•Alive, The Wild and Reay. Take that time which seems to no longer matter and fill it with moments that do.