I’m a sucker for well-wrought country tinged songwriting so happy to share Clever Hopes is playing TO - at the Cameron House Tuesday July 16 2024 for the release of his latest album ‘New Kind of Familiar’.
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Photo by Raul Rincon
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Grevious Angels, Lucius, Clever Hopes, Donovan Woods, Villagers, Penny Shades, Jeremy Gignoux, and Geordie Gordon
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Grevious Angels, Lucius, Clever Hopes, Donovan Woods, Villagers, Penny Shades, Jeremy Gignoux, and Geordie Gordon
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Adrian Sutherland
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Adrian Sutherland, Anti-Queens, Deep Dark Woods, Burnstick, Clever Hopes, Hamish Hawk, Winter Aid, and Jon Muq
“I’ve come to realize that being a rebel or an outsider is not such a bad thing. Just stay true to yourself, and you’ll stay on the right path.” - Adrian Sutherland
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Ellis
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Chastity, Ellis, Matt Holtby, Echoes Of. . ., Ghostly Kisses, Clever Hopes, Rural Alberta Advantage, and Verry Gerry
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Chastity, Ellis, Matt Holtby, Echoes Of. . ., Ghostly Kisses, Clever Hopes, Rural Alberta Advantage, and Verry Gerry
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PUP, photo by Vanessa Heins
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Geoffroy, Georgia Harmer, OMBIIGIZI, Pup, Sunglaciers, Niall Mutter, Miles Francis, and Clever Hopes
By Will McGuirk
"Back in 2018, when I was on the road with Alessia Cara, we went to Austin, Texas, and my dad recommended we go to this barbecue spot he had been to when he was touring there. We had a day or two off to explore, so we went. I thought of my dad while I was there, and often when I was on the road, because he's also a touring musician - we’re very similar and we're very close. I wrote this song to articulate the significance and importance of our relationship, how much I love and admire him, and our many parallels." - Georgia Harmer
“Although my Dad was a very complex human, he was very compassionate towards me, especially when I explained how the kids would tease me for being Ojibway. He’d always let me stay home with him and oftentimes we’d go to the Rez store for chips and pop; I’d get Cherry Coke or Vanilla Coke. The lyrics and song title are inspired by these memories of my childhood and of my father." - Daniel Monkman, OMBIIGIZI
“It’s a lot of me trying to articulate my own coping with existential dread, hopelessness, and what I’ve called ‘Grim Reaping’—which is to me, the idea that we are all reaping what we sow, and right now we’re sowing some pretty fucked up shit.” - Stefan Babcock, PUP
“We tried to write vertically instead of horizontally,” - Mathieu Blanchard, Sunglaciers
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Tennyson King, Clever Hopes, Jay Feelbender, Houndmouth, Jean-Michel Blais, Cassidy Mann, and Neil Young
By Will McGuirk
“It’s putting off the break up because even though you know it’s the right call, it sucks to do. I’ve been on the other side of that situation too and it’s not fun either way. But heartbreak happens to everybody and you can’t control it, you just have to feel it and know that eventually it will pass. Because it will.” - Cassidy Mann
“I want it to be something that they can put on and feel like they have a friend telling them stories, letting them know they are not alone, sharing my life with them and personally singing songs to them.” - Tennyson King
