Pas d'accent

21 April 2024

You always hurt the one you love

Music provides the most powerful brain freeze.

Québec band Rosier performing in a hotel room late at night at the 2019 Folk Alliance conference in Montréal.

14 August 2022

The never-ending showcase

If you are a performing artist, you have to constantly prove your very existence — especially during a pandemic.

Closeup of waving American flag with light showing through it

04 July 2022

I feel the American

An immigrant's ode to homesickness on the Fourth of July.

A woman wearing a red super-hero cape and blue eye mask in front of a gray, cloudy cityscape

16 April 2022

When will we be their heroes?

A poem about us.

A line with hundreds of bras of all colors hanging from it

15 April 2022

When I clicked on that underwear ad

Online shopping, irresponsible consumerism, hopes, desires and expectations.

A posterized photo of jeans on a colorful rug

27 October 2020

À la chasse sur eBay

Song and video about our consumer habits. Music and lyrics Dana Whittle.

A 1970s style woven leather handbag with gold chain strap

25 October 2020

Guichet Voisin - Adventures in banking

The true story that inspired a country song, from this American immigrant to Québec.

Closeup of a screen door about to be opened

19 September 2020

I Don't Want To Know

A song and video about when you don't know how it will end.

A small, blond-haired girl viewed from above, seated, wearing a plastic, jeweled crown and party dress

07 September 2020

The Queen of New England

A tall-tale of imaginary royal roots in Colonial New England – or "How I Lied To My Children".

Two sixty-something musicians standing side by side with their instruments, a fiddle and guitar

07 September 2020

When I'm 64

On being an aging musician during a pandemic and beyond.An ambivalent ramble about life as a musician from someone who’s been given the sudden gift of too much time to think.