Mothers of Brides – The Crucible

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There’s something about those girls- those girls who play music, the ones bundled and wrapped- their once bronzed skin fades and fades into milky whites as the entire city of Toronto slips into it’s needed hibernation. These girls, much like

Mothers of Brides – Lullaby

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Seeing music in everything- the outer edges of wine glasses, rustling leaves, whatever they could find to carrying their harmonies through that afternoon. The props for their play are no match for their own sincerity. They’re not trying to be

Mothers of Brides – Dusty Pews

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Women, singing soft folk songs, strumming, and should you close your eyes, they’d be delicate, harmless. Ghosts of their hippie ancestry, playing songs in the park. But with eyes open- they’re troublemakers, dressed in costumes of skeletons and ghosts, barefoot

Nicholas Doubleyou & The B Squad – A Sad Song

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The war paint on his face is needed more for his own personal ghosts, than the armies of children that dance around the park, hanging from jungle gyms and flying down slides. There is a good chance that his painted

Nicholas Doubleyou & The B Squad – A Cordless Telephone Soul Song

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We’d place him in the box of ‘experimental folk’ but even that seems silly. This is an experiment in something, but maybe it’s not folk, maybe it something bigger than that. A boy, alone, singing without all the bells and

Nicholas Doubleyou & The B Squad – A Crafts & Arts Song

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Nicholas Doubleyou performs with the kind of fervent urgency that can make you feel unsettled, like he may be on the very of tears, or on the verge of something ingenius, so you sit around and wait long enough to

Nadia von Hahn – Maybe It’s The Moonlight

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This BC native brings that theatrical majesty to her performance in the park- it’s the kind of presence that begs for the summer to stay a little while longer. words by Nada Alic myspace.com/nadiavonhahn

Nadia von Hahn – Morning

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When I close my eyes and listen to Nadia Von Hahn a certain underused word comes to mind: enchanted. It’s a word I stopped using when referring to forests, and Disney movies- but it holds no less truth. She postures