Greg MacPherson

I know I’ve been delinquent in my duties on this website for several months but rather than chalking that up to my being incredibly lazy please just consider my lack of posts as a silent protest against this era of constant contact and 24 hour availability. How did all of this convenience become so inconvenient? Perhaps I’ve just been making the adjustment to facebook, twitter and instagram, switching from an hour of blogging every month or two to a few seconds each day of photo posts and open statements… either way, this change happened rather unexpectedly and I’m not convinced it’s for the best. I’m also not convinced that my lack of posting on this site is anything other than incredible laziness…

To business. Rob Gardiner and I have been booking time at Winnipeg’s Argyle Studios over the past few months, sporadically tracking a new album with our good friend, engineer Cam Loeppky. We should have it ready to release by late summer or early fall and it looks like we will be doing a fair bit of touring at that time. I will tweet, instagram, facebook and update this site accordingly as informatio0n becomes readily available.

I enjoyed touring Western Canada so much last week that I’m going again at the beginning of October. This time I’m taking my other band, Nova. Nova has a new record coming out in October and I wrote most of the songs so if you like my music perhaps you will like Nova. Here are the show details. Here’s Nova on Facebook.

Rob Gardiner and I are driving to Saskatoon tomorrow to begin our first Western Canadian tour in two years. I’ve traveled this region so much over the years that I have hundreds of places along the way that I look forward to seeing, from the decaying stacks of grain on the side of the highway near Portage to the fake ski hill south of Saskatoon on the other side of that incredible valley… also there’s the Rocky Mountains we’ll drive through and the Pacific Ocean at the end of the highway. It’s easy to feel lucky at times like this, packing up a rented car full of musical instruments with one of my best friends, driving over dangerous landscapes with music blaring, playing songs to people I don’t see often enough… I have seven days to see about 10000kms and I intend to see as much of the best parts of it as possible.