Music has taken me to some beautiful places. At times it’s driving across the country in a cramped van, pressed up against a window, trying to steal back the sleep life doesn’t want to give you. Watching the invisible lines that divide our country and define territory, come and go from behind the windshield. At times it’s airports, time zones and altitude that are the issue, observing our small world from the sky. All of it, although at moments grueling builds the precious gift of perspective while maneuvering through space and time to get to the destination.

I have made 2nd homes in small towns, suburbs, and city’s where I have come in contact with incredible community’s. Over time, many of these people have inspired my art and made me feel like family. They go above and beyond to make you feel comfortable, make sure you’re having fun and see to it that you have a chance to experience their food, stores, landscapes and culture.

Last summer, I was fortunate enough to go back one of these places, Sitka Alaska. This was my second summer back and I had new eyes the entire trip. The previous one it was raining all weekend, with the clouds encapsulating the mountains that were supposedly break taking. I didn’t get to see the mountains, or really take in the beauty that is Sitka. I spent the majority of the time in my hotel room chain smoking spliffs, taking naps and watching what seemed like Canadian TV. This time, there was none of that and the sky’s decided to part the clouds for the Festival. My pictures don’t do it justice, but the mountains, the town and the people make Sitka one my favorite places I’ve had the privilege to travel. Huge shout out to Homeskillet Records, my dudes Nicolas and Geo, all the local artists, Phonetic, Breathe Owl Breathe, Langhorne Slim and everyone else in Sitka that made the trip extra fresh.


(*the two show pictures are someone else’s)