It has been a long time since I wrote here. My last post was in February, in tribute to my beautiful grandmother.<\/p>\n
Since then, I’ve had so much to write about:<\/p>\n
I recorded my third CD at the Old Confidence Lodge<\/a> in Riverport, with Diego Medina on the console, and an amazing band comprised of: Jude Pelley<\/a>\u00a0(guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, bass whistle, vocals), Jordi Comstock<\/a>\u00a0(drums and percussion), Jay Crocker<\/a>\u00a0(bass) and Alan Jeffries<\/a>\u00a0(banjoy, vocals), with special appearances by Tom Terrell of the Modern Grass<\/a>\u00a0(vocals, guitar)\u00a0and Jennah Barry<\/a>\u00a0(vocals, keys). It was a wonderful and exhausting experience. I learned a ton and had heaps of fun.<\/p>\n I’ve played a bunch of shows.<\/p>\n I’ve received some important rejections from some very important festivals.<\/p>\n I’ve gotten some lovely invitations to play at a bunch of gorgeous homes and small halls.<\/p>\n I’ve been busily making arrangements for the CD’s official launch, which will be held on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at the West Dublin Hall<\/b> (basically, at home!)<\/p>\n And, I’ve been making plans to go up to Ontario on tour in the fall, to bring my CD up to all my friends in T’rona.<\/p>\n What I haven’t been doing is writing. Not only haven’t I been writing here, I haven’t been writing any songs, either. Nothing.<\/p>\n I’ve been volunteering my time with my local not-for-profit concert series organizers, Little River Folk<\/a>, with the local public transit advocacy group, Citizens for Public Transit<\/a>, and Bridgewater’s Sustainability Festival<\/a>. I’ve been working with my friends and neighbours to put together the Second Annual Pennybrook Festival in our ‘hood on September 1, 2012.<\/p>\n But, I haven’t been writing.<\/p>\n Not a note, not a lyric, not a ditty, not a tune.<\/p>\n Not a blog post.<\/p>\n Until today. Here’s hoping this is the first step that opens the floodgates. I’m ready for more songs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been a long time since I wrote here. My last post was in February, in tribute to my beautiful grandmother. Since then, I’ve had so much to write about: I recorded my third CD at the Old Confidence …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,77,78,16,76,80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackbirds-2","category-little-river-folk","category-rejection","category-songwriting","category-toronto","category-volunteering","category-writers-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}