With so many festivals going on, there is no excuse to not support live music. I urge you … for your own better health … consume Canadian music, especially LIVE Canadian music. Here is who we listened to today:

Tearjerker, Hiding, Another Moon;
The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, A Real Fine Mess, Tea for Two;
Tanya Tagaq, Animism, Caribou;
The Lonely Parade, Sheer Luxury, Empty Cure;
Frog Eyes, Carey's Cold Spring, Seven Daughters;
Jon McKiel, New Traces, Twin Speaks;
Twin Library, Historical Tumblers, Right Around the Wrong Time;
Kuato, The Great Upheaval, New Home;
Jason "Blackbird" Selman, Howl Live, Sedgewick Ave;
Cory Weeds, As Of Now, Jamaica Plum Jam;
Just a Season, Just a Season, Never Quite Enough;
Jesse McCormack, Music for the Soul, Away;
Dana Wylie, The Sea and The Sky, How Are You Defining Grace?;
Jey Witten, The Wide Eyed, Shortening Bread;
Mayday & the Beat Creeps, We Are Little Volcanoes, Stepping;
Scott Cook, One More Time Around, Mama Always Said;
Corin Raymond & the Sundowners, Paper Nickels, Brand New Song;
Mayday & the Beat Creeps, We Are Little Volcanoes, Easy Money;
Sianspheric, Sianspheric, The Owl;
Royal Tusk, Mountain, Years Ago;
Greg De Denus, Solo Piano Live at Gallery 345, Pocket Jacks;
David Vest, Roadhouse Revelation, Gone Too Far;
Sirr, Plus, Let My Horses Run;
Model Clocks, Mabel, Tribunal;

In the background, we were accompanied all morning by Moe Koffman and the Moe Koffman Quintet from the vinyl Moe-Mentum. A wonderful bit of vinyl including musicians Ed Bickert on guitar, Bernie Senensky on keyboards, Kieran Overs on bass, Barry Elmes on drums and Moe Koffman on flute, alto & soprano saxes.