Well, it’s official. I will be saying my goodbyes to Vancouver at the end of March, and starting anew in Toronto. There will be a one month transitional period, where I will be living in Ottawa and traveling to Toronto to begin to set up my new life, but otherwise, I will soon be settling in a new, big city. This decision has been a long time in the making for me. When I came to Vancouver originally, it was on an 8-month exchange for my third year of university. Somehow, it’s now three and a half years later and I’m still here. It’s been an amazing time, and I certainly have no regrets at having stayed here much longer than originally planned. However, I feel that I have exhausted much of what the city has to offer me as a musician, and, as that is the avenue I hope to try to pursue as a career, I need to move to where the opportunities are.
But I’m sad! Sad and excited. I know that this is the right thing to do, and I’m looking forward to the excitement of getting to know a new city, and having the chance to push harder on my music career, and living closer to my family and some of my close friends, but I’m also really heartbroken about leaving Vancouver. The city itself I’m not too attached to, but I am really attached to the life I’ve created for myself here. So, I urge all of you Vancouverites to move to Toronto, too, and we can just rebuild our Vancouver lives there, in a city with so much more to offer. Hooray!
So, I will hopefully be playing another gig in Vancouver before I leave. I’m working on it. It would likely be during the second half of March. I will post as soon as I have any news. And for those of you out east, look for me in your town starting in April. I’ve applied for tons of folk festivals for the summer, so hopefully I’ll be traveling around with that, and I’m also planning on doing some mini tours in the southern Ontario/eastern Quebec regions.
As usual, drop me an e-mail to say hello and console me, or to offer me packing tips (I’m dreading the packing! It’s times like this I curse being a packrat).
I’ll update again soon with news of shows. In the meantime, I’ve posted new pictures from the gig at Rasputin’s in Ottawa in December.
And, to close, a picture from an amazing trip I took to Tofino a couple of weeks ago. At least I can tick one thing off my list of “things to do before I leave the West Coast”. Sigh.
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