Greg MacPherson

So my friend Nick Friesen decided to make a music video for one of my songs… this makes three videos that have been made for songs from Disintegration Blues but Nick’s is first one to be released so it’s officially my first video ever. I’m pretty happy… truly honoured actually.

In other news, Rob Gardiner and I are flying to Germany on Thursday for what will be my first tour ever in Europe with my band. These will be special shows I predict… lots of new songs, Rob’s first time across the ocean, etc.  If you find yourself in Europe please consider attending one or more of these shows.

Rob Gardiner, my drummer for the past two years, has never been to Europe. A week from today he and I will board a flight from Winnipeg to Chicago and then from America across the Atlantic to Germany for a two week tour. I think he’s going to like Europe and I think Europe will like him. Details are HERE.

It’s Louis Riel Day in Manitoba, a day off to contemplate the cultural foundation of this province and perhaps make amends for the mistakes of the past. I’m not from Winnipeg but I’ve come to love it here, as much out of fascination for the slow pace of change as for the crazy rivers and huge skies. The ingredients for a place like this are magical and terrifying: impossible winters, beautiful summers, generous people, segregation of class and ethnicity, isolation, relatively cheap rent, terrible drivers, cultural diversity, urban sprawl, etc etc. There is much more good than bad here and for a hundred reasons I’ve found it very hard to leave. Quite the opposite, I’ve started a local record label, I’m playing in several side-projects and I’m working full time in community development. Winnipeg is both a stick and a carrot!

Over the next several months I will find many opportunities to go elsewhere, an overdue tour to BC and back perhaps, a tour through some of Europe, but like Louis Riel I will keep coming back here, hopefully with a different ending… but who knows? The future, like much of the past, is an open book.