Voyageur, the Six String Nation guitar made from pieces of Canadian heritage brings history to life and to music. From Peabody Award winner Jowi Taylor
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2009
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My parents’ life together started with one big adventure and sprouted many others along the way. I saw echoes of them in a young couple in Ville-Marie Quebec earlier this summer.
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My last post was May 13th. What's the delay, man? You call yourself a writer? Well, it's complicated....
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Maupassant measured in sunsets, Prufrock in coffee spoons. For me it's this pill organizer that pretends not to be a pill organizer.
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You want to drive through some beautiful countryside anyway. See Six String Nation live as part of local songwriter Anne Walker's Coulson Concerts series.. Just east of the Horseshoe Valley Resort.
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ALT Picture of the historic Coulson Church, home of the Coulson Concert Series where Six String Nation appears Sunday May 26th at 2:00pm
This coming Saturday is #420 – Weed Day. I intended to schedule this to publish on Saturday but hit PUBLISH by mistake. Was I high? HIGHly unlikely, as you'll read in this cautionary tale about my rare interview with the late German composer and theorist Karlheinz Stockhausen.
The 100 day countdown begins for the Paris Olympics. Good luck to #chefdemission , the legendary (and delightful!) @BrunySurin and all of @TeamCanada in the days, weeks and months ahead !!!!
Got me talking in circles again! On the links actual and fictional that bind particular clusters of music, literature and geography.
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In this edition, in celebration of St. Urho's Day, the circuitous tale of how a soup paddle from the Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay came to be in Voyageur (with a detour through the films of Aki Kaurismaki)
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I was fortunate this past Monday to catch the final night of Feist's recent "Multitudes" tour at Massey Hall. I mean, like, REALLY fortunate. It hit home, pushed buttons and tickled the brain.
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I explore some possible clues as to the origin of CBC dysfunction baked right into the architecture.
Also, the text of my speech for the Chris Brookes Audio Luminary Induction in Chicago!
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I thought it would be one long post at first. Turned into a 4-parter! I'm wrapping up the story of my departure from @CBCRadio this week.
Feels good to get all his off my chest!
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I confess it is exhausting and stressful to write this stuff – just imagine how it was to actually live it!
The third (and penultimate) instalment of the story of my departure from @CBCRadio
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I've been so afraid to write about this chapter of my life but now that I've started... Let's just say it's going to go to 3 or possibly 4 parts: what the hell happened at @CBCRadio ?
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On the occasion of what would have been dad's 93rd birthday, I reflect on a late realization that a life-changing moment for dad at the age of 45 or 46 was eerily similar to what happened to me at the CBC when I was the same age.
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ALT Main photo for post # 18, "Runs in the Family?" showing Jowi's mum, dad and grandma posed in front of the fireplace at Christmas in an old Polaroid.
It's a tragic anniversary that we've commemorated in Voyageur's @caltoncases lid. As our media environment becomes more toxic, spewing more ignorance and hatred, music and a welcoming community in St. Foy are powerful antidotes.
#cciq
#mosqueshooting
#remembertheirnames
ALT Jowi and CCIQ President hold Voyageur on the anniversary of the shooting against a backdrop of the names of the victims.
Uh-oh, the presence of a sculpture of my 4-month-old head has me ruminating on the passage of time. Go figure!
Good thing too, because the 20th anniversary of the Nation is just over 2 years away.
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I'm closing out my year on Substack by recommending another Substack: "Stories from the Edge of Music" by @richard_flohil and adding in my own tale of a surreal encounter with legendary impresario #GinoEmpry
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