Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Haviah Mighty, Mustafa, Haley Blais, Seether, Samantha Fish, Kim Beggs, Ben Arsenault, and Homeshake
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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Sammy Jackson, Alicia Toner, Tedeschi Trucks Band, John R. Miller, Seether, Sam Mehran, Pete Moss, ALIAS, and Kiwi Jr.
By Will McGuirk
“‘What Is There To Say’ is about a relationship ending and not knowing what the future holds. The lyrics illustrate a feeling of sadness and regret while the harmonic progression conveys a feeling of hope and a new beginning.” - Sammy Jackson
“This whole project was about a specific moment in time. It feels far in the past. The person that exists today is really strong and happy and confident and has a wonderful life and family and I feel very lucky to be in the place I’m in now. The songs have taken place over many years. It’s kind of heartening to see where I am now.” - Alicia Toner
“By the time that I started playing guitar, the sound of Duane Allman’s slide [on Layla] was almost an obsession. The spirit, the joy, the recklessness, and the inevitability of the record finds a way to pull you back in. And of course, being a part of their history was the honor of a lifetime.” - Derek Tedeschi
“Heavy touring life took a toll on my health and I used drinking to soften the blows, which eventually spiraled to a bottom point. I decided I had to take control of my life so I sobered up and moved from West Virginia to Nashville in 2017 to start over, and began making music and touring under my own name.” - John R. Miller
Seán Devlin, Photo by Katrin Braga
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Seether, Foreign Films, Seán Devlin, Autogramm, Lenny, LiYON, Gabriella Verdugo, and Flara K
By Will McGuirk
“I felt alone, scared, and confused. During that time, music is what helped me through it. Listening to different artists and their songs touched me, in a way, and helped me to not feel alone.” - Gabriella Verdugo
"It was a cold March in Montreal, and the months of isolation had really started to skew our perception of things - it was hard to think rationally about our lives and where things were going. I had also just read novels by Charles Bukowski and Kurt Vonnegut, and I was over thinking and constantly on edge," - Collin Steinz, Flara K
“I was thinking about how a person's life can appear from the outside to be so settled, ideal, in the right place, while on the inside they may be struggling, drifting, gone awry. This sort of thing tends to be exacerbated by our suddenly very isolated lives, when all we get to see from our friends and loved ones is an idyllic representation that we're fed through social media. Not everyone is comfortable sharing their fears and struggles in the public forum. So this song is just an acknowledgement of my own fucked-up-ness at that time, and also a reminder to really check in with your friends, because they may be having a hard time, despite appearances.” - The Silo, Autogramm