Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Manchester Orchestra, Amythyst Kiah, Kyp Harness, Colour Film, Sweet Kill, Hovvdy, Devarrow, and Veronica Lewis
Read MoreSlowcity.ca Open Mic: Katie Tupper, Darren Roy Clarke, Kyp Harness, Colour Film, Denim Daddies, Bankes Brothers, Basement Revolver, and Half Moon Run
Some fine alt-country on today’s stage incl. Darren Roy Clarke, and Denim Daddies.
Read MoreSlowcity.ca Open Mic: Chastity, Ellis, Matt Holtby, Echoes Of. . ., Ghostly Kisses, Clever Hopes, Rural Alberta Advantage, and Verry Gerry
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Chastity, Ellis, Matt Holtby, Echoes Of. . ., Ghostly Kisses, Clever Hopes, Rural Alberta Advantage, and Verry Gerry
Read MoreSlowcity.ca Open Mic: Sum 41, Rolling Stones, Art Bergman, Jerry Leger, Fast Romantics, Jiants, Teenage Halloween, and Tara Kannangara
"Take back your mind. Arm your love. Avenge your world." - Art Bergman
Read MoreSlowcity.ca Open Mic: Dan Mangan, iskwē, Jeremy Dutcher, Allison Russell, Begonia, Kyle McKearney, Land of Talk, and Denzel Curry
“I needed to make a love letter to my teenage self by being more vulnerable and doing all the production myself.” - Lizzie Powell, Land of Talk
Read MoreSlowcity.ca Open Mic: Northumberland, Cowboy Junkies, Patrick Krief, summersets, Golden Feather, the Projectors, Half Moon Run, and the Revivalists
By Will McGuirk
“I remember in the studio we were really influenced by this more obscure Wilco song ‘Black Moon’ and it was our attempt at doing big CSNY style vocal harmonies throughout. Lyrically, in the sequence of the album, it falls right after the two characters breakup and fast forwards the timeline many years. A tricky, yet important song to set up their eventual reconciliation and the latter third of the album/story. One of my favourites we’ve made as summersets.” - Kalle Matheson, summersets
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Half Moon Run, MOONRiiVR, JJ Shiplett, John Hewitt, Chris Velan, Amon Tobin, Vanity Mirror, and Jerry Sereda
"No matter how hard we try, you’ve got to adapt, you've got to grow, you’ve got to evolve, you’ve got to adjust. But in the end, you just gotta ride the wave because you never really know where you’re gonna go until you’re already there." - JJ Shiplett
Slowcity Open Mic: Gord Downie and Bob Rock, Skydiggers, Shirley Collins, Jerry Leger, Great Lake Swimmers, Cowboy Junkies, Andrina Turenne, and Dennis Ellsworth
By Will McGuirk
“Sometimes a collection of songs just comes out feeling one way and they all work together,” - Dennis Ellsworth
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Shirley Collins, Tanya Tucker, OMBIIGIZI, Sunnsetter, Louise Burns, Orchard Sky, Devontée, and Cola
By Will McGuirk
"I love it when friendship is palpable in a recording, when a piece of music laughs with you in a fast-food burger booth and takes you out to catch up on a walk by the river," - Peter Dreimanis (July Talk).
I think it’s my first attempt at a proper love song, in my own faux-misanthropic way…" - Louis Burns
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Zoon, Wayfinding, Justin Rutledge, Skydiggers, Russell Louder, Chris Picco, The Ironsides, and Mouraine
By Will McGuirk
""Come to My Senses" is the moment of clarity that follows the realization that everything will be okay… that everything fades in importance after life and death… and all the little things we sweat and worry about don’t amount to anything when we look back on our lives;" - Skydiggers
Slowcity Open Mic: Mimi O'Bonsawin, Terry Uyarak, Pierre Kwenders, Stars, The Revivalists, Doug Paisley, Bella White, and Margo Price
By Will McGuirk
“It gave me more meaning to my current group of friends, all around me, to always welcoming me in their hearts as I do them. ‘Come, let me show what you are capable of, I like you, I love you, for who you are.’ I have always belonged to many foundations growing, and mainly of family and friends feeding me a beautiful life.” - Terry Uyarak
“The online wailing wall or maybe the Goliath of our generation. Social media therapy is what we need. Social media therapy is a necessity.” - Pierre Kwenders
“Flowers On My Bedside is a song for empowerment. I wrote it when I was in a sad place and it was a very healing experience, to take a hard situation and turn it into something that feels creatively inspiring.” - Bella White
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Elisapie, Eva Cassidy, Jerome Forde, New Pornographers, Half Moon Run, David Backshell, Protomartyr, and Underoath
By Will McGuirk
“Lyrically, it is very much a stream-of-consciousness story about the disease of social media and online culture,” - A.C. Newman, New Pornographers
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Shakura S'Aida, Abigail Lapell, Rural Alberta Advantage, Edwin Raphael, Zoe Ackah, Eva Cassidy, and Debby Friday,
By Will McGuirk
“It’s about balancing the good with the bad. It’s encountering a landscape that is completely surreal to you but also the closest thing to home. This project involves the arch of self-realization & leans on the generosity of the unexpected. It is a space for thoughts, discovery and new connections.” - Edwin Raphael