wow. just got a CD back that i lent to mil, maybe 3 years ago or so. i'm totally getting flashbacks. back in 2000: pigeon hole, ember swift, lisa gamble, tara martin, parkside jones, hejira, izz cox, catherine kidd, chery pyn dunn, heather mcleod, annabelle chvostek, emily s. downing, the funky ass folk babes, jake brown, victorious and invinsible, buffy bonanza, d'bi young, alex boutros and karla sundstrom, and probably dozens of other small bands and local spoken word acts.

they've graduated and moved on. some teach now, other work in coffee shops, a lot of them have left this town and ventured somewhere else when all the good little in bars / cafes closed one after another. very few seem to live off the brilliant performance they were putting out on a weekly basis for a fiver just a few years back.

so, this is my humble ode to these defunct bands and now basement artists. i still pull out your old demo tapes from boxes every now and then and swear that this was the stuff.