archive for January 25th, 2009

Dear friends,

Since January 2007, I (Johan) have curated and hosted a reading series/neighbourhood cabaret called FREE SPEECH in Toronto’s West End. The series proudly showcases the prose, poetry, spoken word, comedy, storytelling and songwriting of Parkdale-High Park based writers and performers. FREE SPEECH has featured some of the country’s finest writers, actors and musicians including Michael Winter, Justin Rutledge, Bob Wiseman, Mary Jo Leddy, Shyam Selvadurai, Carl Wilson, Claire Jenkins, Ray Robertson and Elizabeth Shepherd.”

FREE SPEECH celebrates its second anniversary on Monday, January 26 when the 2009 season kicks off with four exciting (more…)

Jan 20, 2009.

Dear friends,

Happy new year to all and congratulations to our American friends on this memorable day! Let’s hope that today marks the beginning of a global society moving toward peace, equality and sustainability.

Me and my Mr. Something Something compadres will spend the next little while writing and recording our next album so we won’t be out on the roads again until the end of March. (more…)