With all the darkness going on in the world, I wanted to share some happy news headlines as well as a new song.
Last year, I was asked to write a song for the Dreamcatcher Project which was a performance put on by Confederation Centre in PEI. This song was inspired by a workshop I was a part of in Toronto earlier last year. Led by Toronto theatre guru Mary Francis Moore, a handful of young kids got together on their march break to talk about fear, breaking down boundaries and making the future better.
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This week I realized I had better hire a publicist for my record!
I took the VIA train into Toronto for some meetings last Friday.
I’ve been very taken by the way Iskwe and Sarah Slean have been hitting the media lately, so I sort of back-tracked and in led me to Beth Cavanagh who has just started her own PR firm. Looks like she’s the lady for the job.
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Just my luck. Four solo shows booked this year and I happened to get sick right before the first one.
A frenzy of vocal maintenance has earmarked this week. Luckily my vocal coach Mitch has been readily available on text. He encouraged me to “think like an injured athlete” and make everything stretchy and don’t push. Warm-ups were essential but I only did about 10 minutes as opposed to 40...
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It’s been a very long time since I wrote a journal. I did it many moons ago, and some of you who read those journal entries are still hanging with me today. I could wrap my heart around you. I write to you from a place that bears quite a bit of resemblance to my 21 year-old self…i feel like the world is ahead of me once again. The tightrope of solitude is once again mine. Well, not when the kids are singing nonsense and doing body tattoos jacked up on cupcake sugar. But, perhaps we are all alone at the end of the day.
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