tickets are now on sale for the show at Room 47 in Waterloo, Ontario, on Friday, May 24th. very excited to announce that it will be a triple bill, with By Divine Right and Hyness sharing the night. note: this will be the second of only two fully-orchestrated concerts i’ll be playing this spring/summer (i.e. […]

to even try to express how cathartic it will be to perform again might cause my brain and heart to spontaneously combust. so just another reminder for now: this friday evening (march 15th), i’ll be playing a solo set at Live on Elgin in ottawa, sharing the stage with Julie Stella and Kentucky.tickets are available […]

three live shows. plus a cake with three candles. 1. thanks to a kind invitation from Ottawa-based musician Julie Stella (who intuited my discomfort with/longing for finding and booking shows in a recent post and generously reached out to share one of hers), i’ll be opening for her at Live on Elgin in Ottawa, Ontario […]

excited to announce (especially after having endured The Show That Disappeared, earlier this month) that i’ll be performing on Saturday, May 11th at The Rivoli in Toronto, Ontario, accompanied by four friends, making it the first fully-orchestrated raised by swans concert in over eight years (an uncanny detail: the show is happening in a room […]

as of today, my second album is fourteen years old.  happy birthday, “no ghostless place”. ❤️ also:   thank you to all who responded with such warmth and enthusiasm to the live show announcement that appeared (and then disappeared) on january 5th. unfortunately, a change of venue was necessary, but i’m working hard on finding another […]

#19 of 20. a lucky streak of moonlight watched the road dieright before my eyesit drowned inside a mirror then dared me to draw nearergamble my desire ona lucky streak of moonlightleave my loss behind mehope it never finds me crossed the guarded water as an open flamerubies gleamed and falteredhearts the undercurrent overcameoh my […]

#18 of 20. leaning towers racing oceans on your owndefiantlyone shortwave from long gonea lion the wilds were waiting for could you still see themlove’s urgent remainsgold coasts flaking in the red raini’m tryingi’m beaming light into stormsi still want more all the fleeting thingscolours fading from old paintingsyour eyes striking like lightning the leaning […]

#17 of 20. the sharpest needle how longhow long have you been gonei’ve seen the numbersthey still seem wrong the sharpest needleis in my heartnobody seesit’s just you and me my lovei promisedi’d keep you safea thread i carriedacross that lakewhen you went underand in the darkthe needle gleamedand joined you to me it joined […]

#16 of 20. why can’t absence i’ve retraced the wakes of bottled notesslept with glaciers on beds of coalsfelt you run right through meand then retractlet soft fictions cure me of the facts why can’t absence keep its promiseeven from a distanceits wish is my command i hear your maydaysand i move right awayjust to […]

#15 of 20. scores of angels (return of the sparrows) what spell is this that casts itself through the wallsa secret stranded animal callthat opens up the mouth of a caveto taste its freedom once again it’s all coming backit’s all coming backscores of angels clad in blackin blackdrums in singing fieldsarrows in my shieldscores of angels […]