What:
A uniquely crafted mix of alt-folk concert of original songwriting, a storytelling experience, soap box sermon and homegrown old-time bardic weave for these times.
Where:
The Mateada
Salt Spring Island
Cost:
$20 Advance + Door
War is Over, Forever!:
I'm Matthew McKinney, a storyteller and folk singer/ songwriter drawing another circle with my feet over our good green Earth to sing for the people. I'm a local Salt Springer and have returned home from my summer tour to share this dynamic performance with my community.
An old idea is that in times of trouble, songs and stories are just as important nourishment as food and water. These are those times. Economic distress, climate catastrophe, post-pandemic recovery, political divisions to the point of complete rupture and corruption, the emergence and reckoning of truths and untruths yet to be integrated. And yet, here we are, people not unlike people from every other time period learning how to walk this road of life.
This set addresses many of the swirling uncertainties, the larger process we as humanity face in our fates and destinies.
These songs come from the crucible of life, moving through the challenges of our time. This performance flows out of my encounters in the various lineages of folk, blues, and rock and roll, the social movements in counter-culture, and drawing on a deeper nature-connected ancestral past to face the cataclysms of the present. This tour explores the end of war and its varied layers, and our individual and collective places in it.
Come away with a truly enjoyable experience that stirs the heart and nourishes the soul, bringing joy and relief.
My music is a blend of musical performance and storytelling that often brings people into a deeper experience that can feel interactive.
As a young man, I was obsessed by the old concept of "bard." Through journeys into wilderness and a practice of mentoring and learning from Earth-based lineages, my performances often bring forward the discourses of human connection with nature, with these transitional times, our ancestral history and it's complexities of belonging to place and within culture, and our personal journeys within these movements.
“Through his original songwriting, Matt McKinney mixes personal story and the mythological, informed by the journey of connecting deeply in the wilderness and a variety of travels through diverse cultures and landscapes. His performative songwriting, driven by creative and interesting vocal melody, poetic lyricism, energetic presence, and skillful guitar playing, provides an experience that can touch your heart, your soul, surprises and awakens the passion to remember our own meaningful journeys of deepening and transformation in connection with the mysteries of life.”
Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you there.
Tickets are $20 and for sale here or at the door: