As part of being an elementary (K-6) music teacher in Calgary, I showcase a different composer each month. So far it's been the Great Old Dead Guys: Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven. You know, the Biggies! In January, I decided to…
I am one of those people who makes music and also makes art. All my life I have done both and in fact both have been inextricably linked for me. At the age of about 10 I began drawing album…
In my last blog (or is it blob?) I told the story of how when I was a kid, I invented a rock star named Bob Calls. Don't ask me where I got the name from! According to the album…
Why write indeed? I've been writing songs for a little over fifty years. I started when I was in Grade Six with my first band. We were called the First Million Megaton Explosion, a title that I stole from a…
I belong to a group here in Calgary called the Cornerstone Songwriters' Cooperative. I've been part of this group for a number of years and I cannot say enough about it.
During the last session one of my fellow songwriters…
These days I've been hit with the double whammy of COVID isolation and recuperating from heart surgery (see my previous blog post). It has left me with time to indulge my love of Star Trek (Sci-Fi Channel: Classic Trek) and…
As I write this I'm listening to Richard Thompson's 2007 album "Sweet Warrior" and a song called "Dad's Gonna Kill Me". Of course "Dad" refers to the city of Bagdad and the song is written from the point of view…