It has been a busy few weeks for music. On 6th March I played a charity event in Binalong supporting Ukraine, the 8th March was my 5th time opening Questfest at The Baso in Canberra with an acoustic set and on 17th March I played at the Canberra Irish Club for St. Patrick’s day.
I am fairly slack at properly tagging my YouTube uploads, so after going back through the songs I wrote this FAWM and a few I have written since, it seems I have 300 original songs in my playlist.
Of course 300 is just a number, but it feels like an achievement of some sort, and this number doesn’t include the 115 additional parodies written over the past 10 years or songs where I have set someone else’s poetry or lyrics to music.
These songs have connected me to the local history and recent happenings in the town where I live, and some have been sung by others at protest rally’s in the US. Many of the songs are just a way to process the strange world we exist in. Thanks to Interfilk, I had the chance to sing some of my original songs to an audience in Ohio in 2023 at OVFF, and that fabulous experience is even more precious given the hellscape currently unfolding there.
Writing and singing songs is something I love to do, it is good for the soul and provides some comfort in the face of all the small and big horror that we face. Not all my songs make it onto albums, but I am very grateful to the many people who have listened to and purchased the music that has made it onto Bandcamp. Play on!
