Each year we add a musician to this performance. This year we are adding Kieran Adams (percussion) to the mix!

“You Still Believe In Me” recorded in 2010.

You Still Believe In Me

“Let’s Go Away For A While” recorded in 2011.

Let’s Go Away For A While

Facebook Event Page: Pet Sounds @ The Tranzac

I’m changing the way I use facebook. Here’s how.

I’m keeping my music page because I think it’s good, as a musician, to have some sort of presence on facebook. You want someone to be able to type your name in the little search box and find you within 2 seconds.

But with my personal page, I accepted too many friend requests. I have too many “friends” that I don’t actually know. I often thought about starting over, scrolling through my list of 1000+ “friends,” I’d try to determine which ones weren’t actually my friends, and could therefor get the axe. Have you ever tried to do this? It’s not as easy as it sounds.

Exceptions: Family

As you might already know, you have to have a personal page to be able to have an official Page (a.k.a. fan page) So I’m “unfriending” everyone on my personal page…one at a time. Everyone except family members at first. There’s no ambiguity there. You’re related to me or your not! After I’m down to just family members, I’ll decide what I want to do. I especially like being able to check in on the cousins I never see in real life.

It’s a place where I waste a lot of time.

A few people have asked me why I’m doing this. And I tell them about the wasting time. About clicking through people’s photo albums and click click click click click click click click click click click click and then I’m not making music. Some of my friends get it. But more people have said “really? do you waste a lot of time on facebook?” For me, the cumilative effect of all those little clicks, 2 minutes here and there throughout the day, checking messages, watching funny videos, is WASTED TIME. Because it’s not just the time spent on facebook that’s lost, it’s the time it takes to get back into whatever I was doing before I had the urge to distract myself. That time adds up. And it kills productivity.

If you don’t waste any time on facebook, then YOU ARE AWESOME.

So that’s where I’m at with facebook.

I’ll still be there, but this is the page I’ll be using.

We’re also going to back up Doug Tielli (singing some Bee Gees) and Ronley Teper (singing Nick Cave).

See poster for more details.

Whenever I mention her name to other musicians, they usually say something along the lines of “she’s the real deal.” And she really is. The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame seems to think so, too. 

Her new album Hello Cruel World is available for pre-order here.

UK/Europe Tour 2012

March 1^st The Sage, Gateshead, UK

March 2^nd  The Arc, Stockton on Tees, UK

March 3^rd  The Met, Bury, UK

March 4^th  The Arches, Glasgow, UK

March 5^th  Buxton Opera House, Buxton, UK

March 7^th  Robin 2, Bilston, UK

March 8^th  Fibbers, York, UK

March 9^th  Kelly’s, Galway, Ireland

March 10^th  Damer Court Hotel, Roscrea, Ireland

March 12^th  Village Arts Centre, Kilworth, Ireland

March 13^th  Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland

March 14^th  Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, UK

March 15^th  Errigle Inn, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

March 16^th  Coliseum, Aberdare, UK

March 18^th  The Assembly, Leamington Spa, UK

March 19^th  Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK

March 20^th  Bush Hall, London, UK

March 21^st  The Phoenix, Exeter, UK

March 23^rd  Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany

March 24^th  Crystal Club, Berlin, Germany

March 25^th  Studio 672, Köln , Germany

March 27^th  de Schalm, Westwoud, Netherlands

March 28^th  Transvaria, Den Haag, Netherlands

March 29^th  Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

March 30^th  In The Woods, Lage Vuursche, Netherlands

March 31^st  Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands

April 2^nd  Komedia, Brighton, UK

April 3^rd  The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds, UK

April 4^th  The Stables, Milton Keynes, UK

April 5^th  The Glee Club, Nottingham, UK

Photo by James Dean (2010)

Emcee: David Newland

House Band: Jason Fowler, David Matheson, David Woodhead & Christine Bougie

Featured Artists:

Cadence
Annabelle Chvostek
Lori Cullen
Rick Fines (Thursday-Friday-Sunday only)
The Good Lovelies (Thursday – Friday – Sunday only)
The Good Brothers (Saturday only)
John McDermott (Saturday only)
Jory Nash
Liam Titcomb
Valdy
Suzie Vinnick
Ken Whiteley

Special Guests: TBA

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I’m going to up my blogging schedule from once/week to twice a week for the next two months, up until I leave on February 27th for a six week tour (UK/Europe) with Gretchen Peters. 

I’ll be posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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(Photo: A beautiful cup of coffee from the Coffee Pocket on Bloor St West, Toronto. I took this photo on my phone with Instagram.)

Read Mamma’s latest post about New Year’s Resolutions.

As for this blog of mine, I’m sticking with the once-a-week posting schedule (Tuesdays) for now. There will be a redesign coming soon, though. Hooray for fresh starts.

Happy New Year to you!

xo