I wrote this song, working title “Fire” or “Fire In Me”  about two days before my recent show.  Then I decided to add it to my set! I’m not sure what I was thinking, except I just really loved the message.  The whole song came to me in about 15 minutes, and I’m happy to share it with you, especially when it’s so new!  Tell me if this song speaks to…

We drove past farms and through a community called, “Punkey Doodles Corner” and made our way to Ailsa Craig. We pulled into the cutest little town and stopped at the Crown and Turtle for a preshow bite to eat.  Then we went over to the venue and did a sound check and met Cameron Arts, the opening act.  The theatre was an original theatre with INCREDIBLE acoustics in their town…

Have you ever worked at something for a long time and then suddenly you feel like you didn’t make the progress you expected? It’s not that you didn’t meet your goals or didn’t succeed, it’s that you had unacknowledged expectations of where you thought you would be at a certain point. That feeling is the pressure we put on ourselves! Recently I had an encounter that helped me see that…

My new concept album has just come out! You can get it here!  This feels like the perfect time and place to talk about the story behind each of the songs and how they came together to create the concept album that became The Phoenix Story.  So we’ll go in order from the start. Off The Market I wrote this song about three or four years ago with one of…