I recently interviewed Dan Livingstone, a musician and ‘amateur ethnomusicologist’ as he says, who tours Europe regularly but just got back from a first ever tour of China where he crossed the country north to south several times over. In many cases his playing these songs, American traditionals, country, bluegrass pre-1940, was the first time [...]
Yes, the Worn Journal Slowdance Prom with Lickety Split and Perpetual Emotion Roadshow was a gorgeous, dear, cuddly evening. Despite worries, the room was crowded but never over-packed and the slowdancing was a lovely, friendly intermingling, with only a little bit of swingers propositioning sprinkled around for extra hilarity (not an official part of the [...]
Pictures taken quickly by Ric, our awesome ally and host at Studio 300 from the Indyish Monthlymess showcase going on right now, in Old Montreal. We’re listening to the GriffinTown presentation now - history, architecture, urban planning, a quiet learnin crowd… and Lake of Stew arrived so all the acts are officially accounted for! Ay!
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Day 3:
Woo! That morning we had a wonderful pancake breakfast and waaaaaay too much coffee! The ladies of Gargantua: Fear of a Fat planet entertained us with some comedy, songs and dancing under the blazing sun and made sure we were well fed. Yum! A bit later on in the day, the Dan D. Lyons [...]
I got to partake in another Neil Young singalong yesterday (mostly Neil anyway) before heading over to the Lickety-Split issue 4 launch at Lambi. Here are some pics!
The singing was great, inspiring, fun - I feel like themed singalongs will be creeping their way into in our days more often. This is like medicine [...]
Pics of the crew! Assembly project manager Tessa Smith, Indyish staff and Assembly participant Tristan Brand, frequent music video producer and Indyish volunteer Martin Reisch, and Arts Community Developer for Indyish Maryanna Hardy all looking their fine and hard working selves at the post-meeting meeting we had yesterday at the Croissanterie on Ste. Catherine. More [...]
Being one of the many poor lost souls unable to get some back when they originally went out on sale, tickets for the five night Ukrainian Federation concerts were an unattainable treasure. Our prayers, however, were answered when an article in the Gazette revealed that tickets would go on sale on each days on the [...]