Hello friends… here is a mini show review that my second cousin Mary found in the Dryden, ON paper. I think there were about 10 people in the audience… ha ha ha. The smallest show of the fall tour for sure but the room was lovely to sing in. The place is called Pappy’s and it’s run by a really great guy named John. He cooked us up some fish that he had caught himself… yum

Oh yeah, the sound. It was one of those rooms where it sounded good to song on the mic and off. I did one song completely acapella and it was so much fun. Some rooms swallow my voice or squash out certain qualities of it. This room embraced my voice and made me feel like I could sing as loud or quiet or sweet or intensely as I wanted.

See you again Wabigoon!

: )

Coco

ps: He’s not in the photo but it was the excellent Michael-Owen Liston by my side that night… rocking that upright bass.

pps: My shirt says “Nerdy and Flirty”… of course!

For those of you unfamiliar with our merch clothing line, we reclaim second hand shirts and give them new prints. However, due to the volume of work and nature of used materials, we sometimes don’t spot defects until our final inspection. Over the last year we’ve accumulated a load of shirts that we couldn’t sell. Rather than throw them out, we’re reclaiming our own reclaimed merch. Confused yet?

Oliver and Derry were gracious enough to help me build the wooden frames necessary for this project. I’m now cutting out the good parts from the damaged shirts, printing on them (again!) and stretching them over the frames.

Hello all. I’m currently in Halifax, Nova Scotia taking a few days to chill after a 10 week cross Canada tour and a recent string of 3 shows with Matt Andersen. The whole fall tour was amazing and exhausting and inspiring and looooong and lovely… ha ha ha, but more on that later.

For those of you that don’t know about Matt Andersen yet, he’s awesome! Writes great tunes and then sings plays the @#%& out of them. We had 3 amazing sell out audiences. Over 700 in Halifax… wow! So the concept for these shows was for myself, Ian Sherwood, The Hupman Brothers and Ross Neilsen (all amazing) to each play a few of our own tunes in the first set. Then we all got up together and played Matt’s tunes as a band. Ian and I were the horn section with him on tenor sax and me on trumpet. So much fun!!!

So if anyone needs some trumpet playing… it’s official, I’m pro now… ha ha ha.

And now back to lounging in my hotel room. I’m kicking it diva style this week!

: )

coco

This weekend, I enlisted Oliver and Derry to help with Coco’s newest merch item — canvases. Sometimes, we buy a second hand shirt that has slight defects that we don’t notice until our final inspection process. Rather than throw these shirts away, we’re going to cut a square out the most interesting part and stretch it over wooden frames.

Event featuring Coco Love Alcorn at DefSup (last) Friday
In anticipation of the Take Back the Night festivities (last) Friday night at DefSup Gallery, GIC coordinator Dave Ivany had a chance to ask feature musician Coco Love Alcorn about everything from her new album to the love of her bicycles.

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Hi everybody. Simon here, Coco’s husband. I’m finishing up the final touches on the website over the next couple days, but feel free to roam around and explore the site. The shop section won’t be complete till later this week, but believe me when I say it will be worth the wait. We have all sorts of surprises in store for you. Coco is currently touring in Nova Scotia with Matt Anderson & friends. When she gets back, we will be making our newest round of re-purposed clothing and art prints. I can’t wait!