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Hourly, 3/4 and 1/ 2 hour per week Voice--all styles of music. Piano, beginner level using Piano Adventures, then jazz and popular with RCM or Conservatory Canada's Contemporary Idioms. Piano--Must be age 6 and have an attention span of at least 15 minutes. Ability to read English recommended for both. ANNUAL (TERM) RATES AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

a. One hour a week $60 per lesson x 4 lessons =

$240 per installment = $2160 ($960 +$1200)

b. 3/4 hour a week $45 per lesson x 4 lessons = $180 per installment = $1620 (720+ $900)

c. 1/2 hour a week $35 per lesson x 4 lessons = $140 per installment = $1260 ($560 + $700)

 , you ran the good race.  My favorite rock song (favorite April Wine ballad was Lady Run, Lady Hide.). Looks like an am...
12/04/2023

, you ran the good race. My favorite rock song (favorite April Wine ballad was Lady Run, Lady Hide.). Looks like an amusement park in Amsterdam. Wonderful visuals.

From this Canadian band's eighth studio album 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓...𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 released in 1979.Myles Goodwyn – vocals, guitarsBrian Greenway – vocals, guitarsGar...

I sang here for seven years 1996-2003. The sweet spot was where the stool is (ready for a Steve Bell show).  We made bea...
11/27/2023

I sang here for seven years 1996-2003. The sweet spot was where the stool is (ready for a Steve Bell show). We made beautiful music.
I know, they added a huge apron, Carleton owns it now and the rebranded it the Dominion-Chalmers Centre CDCC, the cross is gone, but it’s still my preferred worship space. I miss it.

Ottawa December 2.
11/21/2023

Ottawa December 2.

Hitting the road in December for a Christmas Tour with The Troubadours! We will play shows in Ottawa, Hamilton, Kitchener and Burlington...with holiday songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Loggins, James Taylor, Jacob Moon and more! Join us!
www.jacobmoon.com/events

Anyone near Huddersfield UK, do not miss them!
11/12/2023

Anyone near Huddersfield UK, do not miss them!

Artist Spotlight ✨
Back by popular demand the awesome Kruger Brothers will be headlining our evening concert at our 20th Anniversary Deering Banjos event on the 11th November 🪕
This world-renowned trio will once again take us on a magical journey with their incredible skills on banjo, guitar and bass. A memorable experience that will stay with you long after the last note has been played. Ticket details on our website…don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness musical artistry at it’s very best! We can’t wait!



Tingles and pain reduction.  Moving/bittersweet tunes like Coldplay seem to be work best. “Fix You” anyone?  So does bre...
10/26/2023

Tingles and pain reduction. Moving/bittersweet tunes like Coldplay seem to be work best. “Fix You” anyone? So does breakup music.
Fits in with my Tuning philosophy of autistic internal stimming.

The emotional themes of the music also played a pivotal role, with "moving or bittersweet" songs proving the most effective.

1981, university daze.  I loved The Runner.  Why wasn’t Pilot a massive hit?  I don’t understand rock music vagaries.
10/22/2023

1981, university daze. I loved The Runner. Why wasn’t Pilot a massive hit? I don’t understand rock music vagaries.

The Ian Thomas Band peforms ''Hold On'' and ''Pilot'' on SCTV.

The Spoons acoustic (mostly, plus band in a box) Wi******er United Church. Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne, October 21 2023...
10/22/2023

The Spoons acoustic (mostly, plus band in a box) Wi******er United Church. Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne, October 21 2023.
Great 80s nostalgia and some new tunes. Fangirl pix to follow.

Can’t wait….
10/17/2023

Can’t wait….

Exciting news! Don't miss the upcoming release of Jens Kruger's Moonshine Sonata 🌙🎶 This incredible album features the Kruger Brothers & Kontras Quartet. Preorder now on CD or digital download. https://buff.ly/3zcCvtG Kontras Quartet Madison House

She IS the bomb.
10/02/2023

She IS the bomb.

Join me in congratulating my very bestie in such a well deserved honor, New England Music Hall of Fame inductee, Robin Lane. Not only that, but she is committed to healing trauma through songwriting. Check out Songbird Sings nonprofit. www.songbirdsings.org
She’s the bomb ❤️

From a Postmedia interview September 7.  Allison Russell is in Ottawa this weekend at CityFolk.  A timely message if you...
09/12/2023

From a Postmedia interview September 7. Allison Russell is in Ottawa this weekend at CityFolk. A timely message if you’re like me.
{Alt text: party background with interview quote “We need to have every mind and brain valued equally so we can come together in creative problem-solving…it is possible to leave the world better than we found it.” Singer Allison Russell}

Another gospel music legend gets promoted.    https://youtu.be/ftZAz3IfxYk?si=N8_GtkwTzSC-V7Fp
09/09/2023

Another gospel music legend gets promoted.

https://youtu.be/ftZAz3IfxYk?si=N8_GtkwTzSC-V7Fp

Mylon Le Fevre
10-6-44 to 9-8-23

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” I Timothy‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

My precious, strong and courageous husband laid hold of eternal life last night.

When we discussed heaven through the years, Mylon was most excited about receiving the soul winner's crown. With his contemporary Christian rock band, Mylon and Broken Heart, he had the privilege of leading over 250,000 youth to Jesus. He cherished all the years of music ministry and the countless lives touched through his songs but his greatest joy was teaching the Word of God, especially through our broadcast, On the Road to Freedom. (This pic was his fave spot.)

Throughout the last years of this intense non-stop battle, never once did I hear him falter in his good confession of faith. In every broadcast and church service, many witnesses can attest to his bold declaration: JESUS IS MY HEALER.

Until his very last breath he fought the good fight of faith. He finished his race. He kept the faith. II Timothy 4:7

My honey, we discussed many times how we both daily answered the call for the holy affirmation that I know you are now hearing,

“Well done good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”

My love, you are finally enjoying in this moment what you affectionately referred to as “the first day of forever.”

It has been my highest honor and privilege for God to trust me with you these past 25 years.

All my love, Christi

08/28/2023

So true! Most of us get our start in church or community ensembles.

Forgot about this Playing for Change version.
08/16/2023

Forgot about this Playing for Change version.

“The Weight,” features Ringo Starr and The Band's original member Robbie Robertson, along with musicians across 5 continents. Great songs can travel everywhe...

RIP Robbie Robertson.  Here’s a fine cover of Broken Arrow.  https://youtu.be/JnK8hM82gT8
08/09/2023

RIP Robbie Robertson. Here’s a fine cover of Broken Arrow.
https://youtu.be/JnK8hM82gT8

Today we’re saddened to hear of the passing of Robbie Robertson, a Canadian icon, and one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. We have these classics from The Band in stock now, and we hope you spin your favorite of his works in his honor tonight.
Open til 9pm.

07/26/2023

Sinéad.

If I were a different kind of person I would let it settle and wait a few days to collect my thoughts and do this the right and grown-up way but I think she’d be more proud of me for writing like this….pulled off to the side of the highway writing from my fu***ng heart because that’s she did, all her life, made from the heart.

I got my first Sinéad record at age 14 - I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got - dubbed from my mentor Anthony’s CD collection onto a 90-minute Maxell XLII blank cassette tape. It changed my life. I wanted the artwork, so I borrowed Anthony’s CD booklet, took it down to the town library xerox machine, copied it, and carefully and lovingly cut it to size for a cassette tape. So I could see her face.

Her face.

I learned every song by heart.

She was fierceness and honestly incarnate.

She howled her heart out so purely that people had no idea what to make of it.

This is a woman who ripped up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live (when it had no ”safety delay”) to draw attention to the s*x abuse happening in the Catholic Church, after delivering “War” by Bob Marley, a ca****la:

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war.

Twelve days later she took the stage at Madison Square Garden for a Bob Dylan tribute festival and you could barely hear her sing over the boos and jeers from the crowd. She scrapped her planned Dylan song and screamed out “War” again, as the crowd tried to overpower her.

That feeling. Many women have been there. I have been there too, shaking, as it feels like the whole world is trying to shout and drown you out, and put you in your place. Wondering if I am the crazy one. Wondering if this many people are right. Or wrong. Or even real.

She was right about the church. She was very fu***ng right.

She was right about so many things.

Now that she is dead, I know she’ll be lauded and applauded.

But back then? That night? How do you imagine she felt that night, crawling into bed, having been abused by a crowd of thousands? How would you feel? What would that do to you? Would you care if the world turned around, forty years later, and said: “Sorry about that, you were actually very brave?”

This is a woman who boycotted the Grammys saying she did not want “to be part of a world that measures artistic ability by material success.” This is a woman who refused to play US national anthem before certain concerts. That went down reallll well, too.

She was hated, she was scorned, she was cancelled for being honest over and over again. That SNL move was the beginning of the end of a career in many ways. She never recovered.

Too much, they said. Go away.

She used her voice. She kept on speaking.

She was loud. Being a loud woman is not fu***ng convenient, for anyone. Ever. Not around here.

She was strikingly beautiful. She shaved her head and gave the middle finger to the beauty standard. She wore combat boots and jeans. She opened her mouth to the max, literally. She did not mumble; she roared. She inspired me into taking power; she inspired so many of my friends. She showed us all another way. There’s this way, too. Go this way, she seemed to be screaming, GO.

Dismissed as crazy. She struggled, and she struggled, and she struggled. She was punished, she was mocked, she was ridiculed.

She retreated and came back time and time again, her roar ragged, her frustration jagged and visible. Painful. You could see it, feel it. We mourned it, me and my friends.

Sinéad? Misunderstood? Which chicken, which egg?

What the world did to Sinéad was death by a thousand cuts. The world lauded her, worshipped her, bought her, sold her, forgave her, claimed her, disavowed her. Over and over in cycles. How could anyone survive that? Like a piece of metal getting bent over and over and over again. It breaks.

She began as a fragile person. A fragile artist. Which is why her songs were so beautiful and powerful to begin with. A raw heart. A mother. Not an idea, not a theoretical. A person.

The world loved the taste of her. The world didn’t know how to digest her. The world spit her out.

She never apologized for ripping up that picture of the pope. When asked later, she said “I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant”.

It was.

She was.

Never forget this woman.

Let her memory guide us.

Let them scream at you, but do not stop singing.

Never apologize just to make them happy, to make them go away, to “get along”, to make them accept you.

No, no, no.

Me say War.

Sinéad….rest in world-changing ripped paper phoenix-pieces from the stage, rising and burning into the white night stars. Find peace at last. I hope you forgive us what we could not give you.

It cannot be 20 years since our Centennial Choir went to Powell River for this.  Kathaumixw was back after a 5-year hiat...
07/22/2023

It cannot be 20 years since our Centennial Choir went to Powell River for this. Kathaumixw was back after a 5-year hiatus.

It is a sad day.  I’m thinking of all his duet partners and Tony’s amazing life achievement.
07/21/2023

It is a sad day. I’m thinking of all his duet partners and Tony’s amazing life achievement.

Here's my interview with Hannah Thibedeau of CBC News, a remembrance of the great Tony Bennett. I wore Tony's favorite color in tribute. (I had no idea CBC would play some of his duet with k.d. lang, Blue Velvet, before we went live.)

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2247792195508

Happy Canada Day—a classic road song for your enjoyment.  The red maple leaf CD is one I own.
07/01/2023

Happy Canada Day—a classic road song for your enjoyment.
The red maple leaf CD is one I own.

Really cool song from Crowbar! 'Oh What A Feeling' charted at #10 in Canada (Daffodil Records). I don't know what else to say about it. The song is kind of r...

Looks good!
06/29/2023

Looks good!

'Lightheaded tells a sweet story about loyalty, passion, talent and most of all, love and that’s something the world could really use a bit more of now,' says producer

After band intros and song mashups, Birmingham starts at 03:22.  Welcome back Amanda!
06/28/2023

After band intros and song mashups, Birmingham starts at 03:22. Welcome back Amanda!

Amanda Marshall "Birmingham" with "Everybody's Got A Story", Beyonce's "(Run the World) Girls", and Bruno Mars mixed in. Live at Massey Hall, in Toronto Onta...

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Hourly, 3/4 and 1/ 2 hour per week Voice--all styles of music. Piano, beginner level using Piano Adventures, then jazz and popular with RCM or Conservatory Canada's Contemporary Idioms. Piano--Must be age 6 and have an attention span of at least 15 minutes. Vocal--age 7 or previous group music lessons. Please see pinned post for current rates.

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