I'm thrilled to share that we've reached our second crowd-funding goal of $5000 in our quest to create this magical animated music video! Now, we're setting our sights on our last and final goal: $7000. If we reach $7000, all contributors (even at the $20 tier) will be receiving a Crissi Cochrane guitar pick, a postcard featuring an illustration of me created by Delaney, and a hand-written thank-you note in the mail.
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The most fun part - and definitely one of my highlights from all of my livestreams ever - was when I did my show and tell with my beautiful hat from The Saucy Milliner. Upon opening the hat box for the first time in years, I discovered that I had hidden a stash of cigarettes in there!!
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Last night, I had the great privilege and joy of being a part of Andrew MacLeod’s Online Open Mic/Scavenger Hunt. It was my first live-stream of 2021 and my second time being in the line-up of this wonderful and brilliant virtual event.
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So, three of the ten songs I played - Marshmallow World, What Are You Doing New Years Eve, and Hang Up Your Stocking - are still up on Facebook, plus all the chatting and joking in between (including our discovery that our heroes, podcasting comedy stars Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano, were tuned in and enjoying the show with their pup Brownie!!).
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I’ve finally started my own Patreon page! Patrons will get early access to official releases, one unreleased song per month, and a handwritten thank-you note for as little as $4/month. Other subscribers will also get exclusive merch, on-demand live-stream replays, and discount codes.
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On Saturday, I played for the first time ever on Instagram Live! It was a special night - a pyjama party theme, a show-and-tell segment featuring Adeila’s first song “Bumblebee” (so cute, I die), and our first time filming in portrait mode, where you can actually see all of me!
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I loved playing my Martin acoustic for the first time in 5+ years on this stream. Goodness, this guitar looks so good. And it smells like chocolate and coconuts. I am in love with it.
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Tonight, I did a little show and tell with a piece of fan art that was mailed to me by Bianca Lee from South Korea several years back. And I played my ukulele publicly for the first time ever!
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It’s Saturday night, and I am currently winding down from what was one of my very favourite ever live-stream performances! I felt like this one was so much fun, and there were so many novel aspects and things we did right (show & tell! wine! rihanna!) that I will be sure to bring back for future streams.
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I also debuted a brand-new song on stream, a song that I’m tentatively calling “Why”. I’m really relieved to finally be writing new songs again. This song definitely feels like me, but it still feels like something a bit more creative and unexpected, which is the direction I’d like to go. I wrote the chorus a week or two ago, and then I decided to write verses inspired by the book “The Shoemaker’s Wife” by Adriana Trigiani that I finished reading at the end of July.
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Thanks so much to all who joined tonight’s live-stream! I had such a lovely time connecting with you, and sharing some tunes that I don’t play as often. I debuted “One World Or None” on the stream tonight, a tune of mine written a few years ago that I haven’t played in ages, but still really adore. And I especially had fun singing ‘I Heard Love Is Blind”, and testing out my new re-worded Sam Cooke cover which is now called “The Mystic”.
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Saturday night’s live-stream was my ninth stream since we began Soul City TV back in March, and it was an extra special one, being the one officially funded by the City of Windsor’s Arts, Culture, and Heritage Fund. To mark the occasion, I added two new tunes to the repertoire - my upcoming single “Can We Go Back”, and a new custom love song, “Love The Way You Love Me” - and I dusted off my cover of Feist’s “One Evening”, which I haven’t played in years.
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I’m pleased to say that I did my hair and makeup with zero cursing tonight (a rare thing), and I didn’t try on five different outfits and almost cry off all my make-up 10 minutes before going live (a very common thing). I feel a renewed sense of connection with these songs and these people now. I think all this love was exactly what I needed today.
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It’s been a strange evening. We nearly had to delay the live-stream because we were dealing with a small family “crisis” this evening, and I didn’t get to do my make-up/hair until 30 minutes before we went live. The crisis: Adeila wedged a raisin up her nose, and we can’t get it out. So a lot of the stream banter was about us soliciting for tips and tricks on removing the raisin.
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This local grant has been a pillar in the creative community since it was first introduced back in 2015, and I am so grateful that the Cultural Affairs staff was able to revamp this fund to support artists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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It took quite a few hours of practice this week to get them all up to scratch. I played Elliott Smith, Van Morrison, Amy Winehouse, The Beatles, Etta James, Sam Cooke, and a few jazz standards. I also included “I Will Survive,” the first song that I’ve learned in ages.
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It’s 11:05pm as I begin typing this post. Oh lord, this font looks so tiny. I’ve got a half a glass of wine aerating on the dining room table, and by “aerating,” I mean I am neglecting it, on account of having had enough wine tonight already. I’m wondering if it’s sacrilege to pour it back into the bottle. We are sort of rationing things around here.
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