| Crazy Man Michael | The now-defunct musical brainchild of Chris, Blain Bovee, Clare McNaul, Sally Ludwig, and Mike Kosonic |
| Your Last Excuse | My neighbor Natty Deshpande's band, for which I am currently playing bass. Nicely-written, good, solid power pop. |
| Blain Bovee |
Storyteller, songwriter, astrologer, author, raconteur and a founding member of Crazy Man Michael |
| ... And Venus Smiled |
Clare McNaul's consignment clothing store (Clare was another founding member of Crazy Man Michael (see above) and a great vocalist who appeared on several Northwind releases.) UPDATE! Guelph Ontario suffered a terrible loss on Good Friday of 2007 when the historic Gummer Building caught fire and burned for nearly 12 hours (post-fire video here), destroying the homes of a dozen downtown businesses, including Clare's beautiful store. However, she has now rebuilt in a diffeent location, and her store is now thriving in its new home in the Quebec Street Mall. |
| Dynamic Surfaces |
Makers of incredible hand-painted ceramic tiles. Owned and operated by ex-Crazy Man Michael violinist/mandolinist Mike Kosonic and his partner Brenda Veerman |
| Gary and Joanie McGuffin |
Adventurers, wilderness guides, authors, photographers par excellence, ardent environmentalists, and good friends |
| Joanna Macy |
Eco-philosopher, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, and one of the most amazing people I have ever had the honour to meet. Her work has inspired me to begin a new music project, which you can read about here |
| DROG: Dave Records of Guelph |
Dave Teichroeb & Lewis Melville's fantastic Guelph-based indie record label |
| Eccodek |
Composer/producer Andrew McPherson's ongoing project... cool stuff |
| Ed Video |
Guelph's independent media arts centre |
| Not There!!! |
Guelph's Residents for Sustainable Development (RSD) fight the Wal-Mart corporate monolith... Buy the brick! Buy the CD! |
| Out On The Shelf |
Guelph's Queer Resource Centre and Library. Tons of great stuff! |
| Woodshed Music |
John Judge's music store... A great place to slake your equipment lust |
| Folkway Music |
Purveyors of fine fretted instruments |
| Ken Brown |
Local Guelph singer-songwriter (and RSD activist)... He has a cool web page on DADGAD tuning! |
| Ambre McLean | Another great local singer-songwriter, and a good friend. Her latest CD, "I Wonder If..." is a pretty impressive piece of work; definitely worth checking out. Her previous releases (including a personal fave, the self-titled CD of her former band "Sharon Said", for which she wrote most of the material) are also well worth a listen. |
| Zlad! | Okay, there's really no reason to include this link here other than I think it's way cool... Just the best music video ever: join Zlad! and his female companion on their crazy, cosmic adventure through space and time and... well, whatever it is. Killer song, killer special effects. It's Electronik. It's Supersonik... (click here for the lyrics... but watch the video first!) |
| Guitar Chord Finder | A cool little application I found and heavily modified to make it even cooler... I couldn't decide where else to put it, so I put it here for now. |
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