Like many performing musicians, I considered leaving the music business in 2020. The confluence of loss of work due to the pandemic, exhaustion from years of gig-hustling, and the intensity of social, political, and environmental crises left me wanting to help directly (on good days) or hide completely (on other days). I needed to seeContinue reading “Understory’s Sonic Ecosystem”
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What’s Inside Musicworks 140?
The Fall 2021 issue connects you to music artists of distinctive styles and from distant places with expertly crafted words and carefully chosen images. It is accompanied by a CD of deeply felt, hand-blown music, enhanced with chiselled edges and unusual colours. IF YOU ARE A PRINT ENTHUSIAST, YOU’LL WANT TO SNAG A SINGLE COPYContinue reading “What’s Inside Musicworks 140?”
Fall 2021
Vancouver’s Intercultural Music Scene
Intercultural music-making in British Columbia is nothing new. Gold seekers brought the violin to the province’s north in the 1890s, and their jigs and reels were quickly adapted by the region’s Tahltan musicians into a true hybrid form. In the mid-1960s, Vancouver performers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds found common cause in the R&BContinue reading “Vancouver’s Intercultural Music Scene”