Thelma and Louise

I am frantically getting ready for the Siren's of Song tour. Will play first show fri night and am looking forward to getting to work ( so I can have a vacation) First week of school is hectic and my kids are doing great. They are falling into bed , exhausted . Me too. . .

I have been prepping for the show and wondering what the others will be playing and which songs I should do etc etc . It's very difficult to pick only a few tunes when you've been playing a whole 2 set show all summer. Quite a different approach and creatively challenging. I am bringing a bass so I can contribute some low end and Annabelle and I will no doubt be adding some strings whenever possible. (Love having two of us in the string section.)
Lynn Miles and I are gonna "Thelma and Louise" it together from Winnipeg to Brandon for the first show . A nice way to shake off Toronto and get into Prairie mode.

feeling overwhelmed. Gotta send stuff off for dates starting in 8 days!!!! Will be so fun once I get away. As Mike B and I always say. . ." can't wait to get to work so I can have vacation" . Ha ha . . .hilarious!!!!!

So Rick Neigher did manage to get here for some recording and it turned out soooo great!!!! New tunes. . .three of them available at summer shows. . .some NOT. Will decide when to release them . Mike Borkosky plays all over them too and Creighton produced so. . .all good.
Gonna rehearse this week and will be so great to get EAST. Playing lovely theatres. What a super treat.

Neil Young concert at Massey Hall last week was a great time. Singing with Emilie-Claire and Kathryn Rose. . .well. . . it's my favourite. Pictures are reportedly on the way. Could hear overtones and octaves resonating in that old concert hall while we sang. Wacky and WEIRD! . . .(good weird.) Loved it.

new tunes

Have been recording! So fun. Have more work to do but hope to have new tunes ready for Spring and summer shows. My buddy , songwriting partner and producer ( Adam's Rib and You Are What You Love) Rick Neigher is hopefully gonna make it to Toronto to play on some of the new tracks. We wrote 4 of the new tunes together . Looking forward to that.
also. . .
My song keeps getting played on Being Erica ( AND I'm diggin the show!) so that's fun too.

Being Erica

My song Every Little Thing is going to be on the new CBC show Being Erica. I think episode three.
It's episode 2 tonight at 9pm, sunday. My friend Michael Riley is on the show ( you may remember him from many hit shows and movies but. . .of course who could forget him as my awful boyfriend in BLACK SWAN!) The show is supposed to be great so . . .note to self. . .watch BEING ERICA.

Happy Holidays

I'm home again. The ground is still moving ( as if still on the train) . . .
I miss everyone terribly but I guess you can't live on a train forever . Was a great trip and so much money was raised and food gathered. I felt so good to be part of it and especially this year when it seems that more people are struggling for just food and shelter. Hard times.

I'm heading into the studio today with Creighton ( brother , producer) to do a vocal and look at some other new material I'm planning to release soon. Feeling excited about music and life.
Thanks to all who came out to see the Holiday Train and to those who have written lately. I hope to be out performing as much as possible in the new year.
See you then.
md

Juno

Had an awesome day off in Chicago yesterday. Felt funny to be off the train . Have three shows today and the rain is going to change to cold cold soon. Our train has maintained heat and power so far. . Fingers crossed. Canadian train not so lucky.

People in the audience here keep asking what I did in the movie JUNO.

Since they keep reading "JUNO award" in the paper but have no idea what that is. :)

(sent in from train land on Dec 9)

Train Days

Nov. 27th

Here I am in Scranton PA, on Thanksgiving day here in America. We are celebrating on the train with a day off! Wow. . . so fun. Have been rehearsing the show and getting to know each other . Fun to play with a new band. We are a fantastic bunch of singers and are thinking up fun stuff to arrange and sing on this trip. I'm missing my kids but will get to see them when we hit Southern Ontario in a few more days so I'm hangin in there.

Love that I'm getting to see this part of the U.S. I've traveled in Canada A LOT, so it's very cool to play here and being on the train makes it that much more fun. It's a perspective that you can't get driving on the highway. I love it.