Latest Blog Posts from Mike
How my relationship to creativity has evolved over the past 15 years – Part 4 (My Childhood Piano)
About three years ago, I remember talking to my friend Dave Celia on the phone and lamenting about how disconnected I often felt while performing. Dave asked me a simple question, but its effects are still resonating with me today. He asked, “Do you sit at home and play piano and your own songs for… [Continue Reading]
How my relationship to creativity has evolved over the past 15 years – Part 3 (Just doing it)
When I was 18, my friend Dave and I started performing as a duo around the college coffeehouse circuit in Montreal. In high-school, I had played in bands, but it was always cover songs like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Stuck In The Middle With You”, and I was too shy to sing in front of… [Continue Reading]
How my relationship to creativity has evolved in the last 15 years (Part 2 – Nuf)
Nuf is Fun spelled backwards, and just a funner way of spelling it for me. You gotta have Nuf as you’re pursuing your creative endeavors. It makes it a lot easier to tap into the freewheeling energy that leads us to undiscovered and unthinkable parts of ourselves. When I was recording my last album, Do… [Continue Reading]
