Music soothes. Music heals. It educates, elucidates, captivates. It inspires. It can change the world. Losing live music hurt. So when my friend sent that invitation (To her neighbourhood Edmonton Folk Fest concert), I could feel my whole face instantly light up. I felt a huge weight, a COVID virus-shaped weight, an isolated, mask-wearing, physically-distanced, grocery shopping is the only outing-shaped weight, lifted off of my shoulders.
As I was processing all the emotions this weekend, especially those surrounding endings of phases in life, or major health scares, or losing loved ones, I kept saying to myself, you really have to grab the opportunities to love and do what you can when you can. If something means the world to you, don’t hesitate. Do the thing.
I basked in the glory of the music I most adore in life. I sang at the top of my lungs, and bounced and danced and cried, and laughed with you and 240,000 like-minded souls over four nights. And I thank you for this.
I can remember the exact day I became a fan of Morrissey…
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“It is only just now in writing this blog that I realize just how pivotal this moment was in my life and the importance of my dad in bringing it to me. First concerts are epic. Music for me is epic. It has always been my heart and soul.”
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