After our shows in #Collingwood, Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social and I went to visit the gorgeous Awen' Waterplay Area at Harbourview Park, designed by Duke Redbird, and his son Jay Bell Redbird, with a beautiful tribute to Jay Bell and Indigenous teachings.

Come say hi

If you were ever wondering what the heck a #Nyckelharpa is, here is a fun interview I did with Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social on CHCH TV where she shows it off and we chat about Sunday's Sultans of String - Live at The Westdale - Hamilton Arts Signature Event! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSo...

Thank a teacher - you never know how your actions affect someone

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

And what amazing performances from our collaborators, Padideh Ahrarnejad, Donné Roberts, Leen Hamo, Majd Sukar, Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social, Alberto M. Suarez, as well as Kevin and Drew from Sultans of String! #MusicSky Thanks to Anne on sound and Robert Hess for the photos!

I just found this. Thanks Anne for sharing

My string quartet Medusa are heading stateside on Friday. Hoping to show the US that Canadians are ok, and to spread some joy amongst anxious folkies. #concert #nyckelharpa

Our first Ottawa show of the year is this Sunday March 9, at 7pm at Ottawa’s Wintertime Music Festival! ❄😊❄ It's going to be a fun show presented by The Gladstone Theatre and Ottawa Music Industry Coalition. For Tix & more info please visit: tgti.na.ticketsearch.com/sales/salese... #festival #music

Chris McKhool from Sultans of String reminding you that the Walking Through The Fire - Visual Album screening is happening at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre on Fri, Mar 7, 7 pm! @mariannemeedward.bsky.social 💻 Tickets are Pay What You Can: burlingtonpac.ca/events/walki...

#NewMusicVideo Here's our collaboration with @donrossmusic.bsky.social, bassist MJ Dandeneau, and dancer & choreographer, Joseé Bourgeois! This is “Highway of Tears” and concerns the the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNf...

#Ptbo Symphony Orchestra combines clarinet with string quartet for 'Mozart to the Moon'. March 7 chamber concert at All Saints' Anglican Church features the orchestra's principal string players and principal clarinetist. kawarthanow.com/2025/03/04/p...

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Spain embraced their migrants & their economy has soared as a result! Their working age population DOUBLED driving the growth! Felon & Elon on the wrong side of the ‘immigration problem’ of course! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The aurora right above me

This feels so relevant right now.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

This is going to be such a special concert featuring Saskia Tomkins, Padideh Ahrarnejad, Majd Sukkar, Leen Hamo, Donne Robert, Alberto Suarez and more! 🎶❤️ Tix: www.aurora.ca/en/town-squa... #FamilyDay2025 #ValentinesDayGift #Save20

I’m playing 3 gigs this weekend. Hibernate Festival in Port Hope, and a special reading of Toronto love letters from WW2, both with fantastic musicians. #livemusic #musician #cultivatefestival #concert

Thought for the Day…

How Sultans of String turned Walking Through the Fire into a visual album www.rootsmusic.ca/2024/12/21/h...

This cannot be posted enough!

Gig tonight in Missassauga with @sultansofstring.bsky.social & Missassauga Symphony Orchestra, called “The Refuge Project”, with all these amazing artists. These days, the world needs to support displaced people more than ever, it could be any one of us at any time, just by a scrawl of a signature.

I made a Winter Shadows Playlist on Bandcamp. This time of year I devote to stillness and introspection. There's a deep, snowy-shadowed mood I love that lives in the longest nights of the year. lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/album/winter... #playlist #winter #solstice #shadows #musicsky

You can learn more about REFUGE here! 🎶🎧 #MusicSky #FortheLoveofMusic youtu.be/uGzM35R1sCA?...

Hi peeps. I’ve come here for the blue skies and healthy, respectful conversation.