“There's a power in looking back with pride and care for the kid you were.” - Skye Wallace
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Soccer Mommy, photo by Sophie Hur.jpg
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Soccer Mommy, Sorry, Cat Power, Wet Leg, Flasher, Pierre Kwenders, Edwin Raphael, Current Swell, and Rudy De Anda
“When we’re out of love we can feel detached and think ‘oh we’ll never be in love again… cry, cry’ but also try and laugh a bit… It’s easy to laugh or think you’ll never be THAT person then the next moment you can feel like the loneliest person in the world.” - Asha Lorenz, Sorry
“It’s the conflicting pursuit of stimulation vs stability.” - Edwin Raphael
Sorry @ Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, May 14 2022
Flasher @ the Baby G, Toronto June 28 2022 June 28
Pierre Kwenders @ Music Gallery, Toronto May 4 2022
Edwin Raphael @ the Drake, Toronto, May 13 2022
Current Swell @ the Opera House, Toronto May 14 2022
Begonia, photo by Calvin Lee Joseph
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Best Coast, Yukon Blonde, Begonia, Cat Power, Jarvis Church, Blake Morgan, The Crowleys, Matt Pike, and Felly
By Will McGuirk
“You don’t really need to compete with yourself, you just need to challenge yourself.” - Jeffrey Innes, Yukon Blonde
“. . . I’m a work in progress and always will be” - Felly
Hot Kid
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Charlotte Cornfield, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Kyle McKearney, Cat Power, Robert Glasper, Hot Kid, The Brandy Alexanders, ModernFolkRevolution, Mary Jennings,
By Will McGuirk
“Sometimes desire betrays logic, and you end up at somebody’s door even after you’ve talked yourself out of it, in all of the ways. And that feeling can be intoxicating. And it can be painful.” - Charlotte Cornfield
Leaf Rapids
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Cat Power, Tariq, Leaf Rapids, Bad Books, David Gray and Sessa
By Will McGuirk
As we waver between seasons, on the verge of summer, on the waning of Spring, wary of winter’s return we see this inbetweenness in the music stepping up for the open mic today - its a mixed bag with the swales and swells of Cat Power, the poptimism of Tarig, the icy Canadianism of Leaf Rapids, a double hit of the erudite Bad Books, the songwriterly David Gray, and Brazilian spiritualism from Sessa, Yes just go with the flow, we will get your there.