Hannah Georgas
“‘Waters’ is for every woman and femme I’ve loved in the past and will in the future. It’s for the witches, healers, mystics, seers, and High Priestesses of the world. May we return to the wisdom of the Goddess together.” - Evangeline Gentle
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Hannah Georgas
alt image: Evangeline Gentle
“We’re still here trying to make the best out of life. I mean, we gave up a lot of our culture and traditions, but we've also adopted a lot of beautiful things from other cultures, from other traditions. Sometimes I ask myself, ‘What am I? What does that make me?’” - qiyupaik
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By Will McGuirk
“a break-up and love song all at once. I’ve been an all-or-nothing person in love and someone who has mistaken chemistry for compatibility,” - Evangeline Gentle
“We tried to write vertically instead of horizontally,” - Blanchard, Sunglaciers
By Will McGuirk
“It has been challenging to write about the ‘Gay Bar’ video in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. I can’t help but imagine the video’s cast of queer people – including my sister, my best friends, my peers, killed in a similar mass shooting. I feel righteous anger and profound grief, and it is because of these feelings that I want viewers who aren’t queer to imagine this: the beauty and joy of us dancing in this video, of celebrating our lives, destroyed by a gunman, like those who murdered 5 at Club Q in Colorado Springs and 49 at Pulse in Orlando.
“But this is not all that I feel. I also feel deep love and gratitude for my community, and eternal hope for our collective healing. This part of me wants viewers to see only the celebration of our lives, the warmth of our joy, and our resistance against acts of queer-phobic violence and terror.” - Evangeline Gentle
Evangeline Gentle is a Scottish-Canadian folk-pop singer/songwriter based in Peterborough, ON. Her debut self-titled album was produced by Jim Bryson.
Evangeline Gentle, photo by Mark L. Craigshead
By Will McGuirk
“Hunter Street is lit in that golden glow”
No matter how down one gets music gets one up. All those cycling thoughts hooked onto a passing chord, and whoosh up and at ‘em. Bed laying, the inevitability of staying in bed, in bed, in bed, in bed. . . until hand reaches out, radio clicks on, song fills the room and thoughts change to ideas, ideas to plans, and plans to action. Up and at ‘em. There’s a world to save, one soul at a time, one song at a time.
Evangeline Gentle, photo by Kristal Jones
By Will McGuirk
Sticks and stones will break your bones but names can never hurt you but names, memes, avatars, icons, stereotypes do hurt. Cursory summaries, quick glances, are the building blocks of our entertainment economy. If you want to be known wear the same clothes. Every song has a hook, every act has a look. Avoid that rush to judgement, speed kills, slow down and learn up. We look too much and listen too little. Stop overlooking.
“I believe that our deepest connections are found through vulnerability which is why I feel compelled to sing this track completely unaccompanied.” - Evangeline Gentle
“Can I still connect with my America Spirits as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant mother? This song is an answer to that. Yes, I can and I will. But, this will come with a lot of uncovering and opposition against the unjust reality of what America has mean since its bloody conception and its chaotic, violent reality today.” -Niki Black
“It’s about those moments when you’ve felt like you’re truly on the same plane as those around you.” - Tristan Armstrong, The Actual Goners
By Will McGuirk
The night symphony in full voice in the garden which earlier played host to monarchs idling their way south, holding on to another hour dancing in the sun, like me holding on to another hour outside, reluctant to leave this still night and the companionship of the Harvest moon.
Evangeline Gentle, photo by Samantha Moss
By Will McGuirk
Yip, waited til Monday just because. . . but you can play this Gentle track any day of the week, coming down Sundays or not, - Great to see the Peterborough singer/songwriter getting it done. Looking forward to the album.