Regular readers as well as Facebook friends know I’ve been participating in Movember this year… With your help, I raised $1790 in support of the Movember men’s health efforts. Big thanks to Tuffy P for putting up with me and my silly moustache. I’d also… Read More
We were out at Yumart today – Yvonne Whelan’s gallery at 101 Spadina (here in Toronto of course) – for the opening of a group exhibition of small works. That’s Tim Deverell in the photo along with Memphis and Tuffy P. We hadn’t intended to… Read More
I’ve been listening to the Kruger Brothers’ Appalachian Concerto in the car recently. Volume cranked up. If I get carried away driving and get a wee speeding ticket, I’d just like to say, Jens Kruger it’s all your fault….
Sometimes I like playing those strange old “mountain modal” Old Time tunes on the banjo. They typically have a simple structure and a hypnotic quality that seems like it comes from someplace very distant in place and time. Here’s me playing one called Boatin’ up… Read More
I left town on a road-trip just to get away, see the country, figure things out and I came back when the money ran out. I had an idea that I wanted to devote my energy to making paintings. I was starting from scratch, finding… Read More
…catching up with old friends over a pot of tea. It doesn’t get much better.
There are two different tunes that I know called Diamond Joe. I first heard this one performed by Ian Tyson… Here’s another version, by Sam Bush.. This tune is apparently fairly young, written in the 1950s, possibly by Cisco Houston. Now much later I heard… Read More
Each year, Tuffy P prepares a basket for the Basketeers organization, supporting women leaving the shelter system. This morning she dropped off her basket for this year.
Somebody landed on 27th Street after entering “Eugene Knapik paintings worth money” twice into a search engine (the first time with a question mark, and the second time more like a statement, without the interrogative). I prefer it without the question mark, frankly. I can’t… Read More
I was surfing about, watching Old Time music videos this evening and chanced upon this delightful story by Roy Book Binder about taking guitar lessons from Rev. Gary Davis… The way these things happen, that led me to another little story about the same legendary… Read More
27th Street 