7. Sylvia Pond* & Dan Grace*

Sylvia Pond and Dan Grace are two lovely people I spent a few months regularly seeing and chatting with at the Rhapsody Barrell Bar open-mic Mondays, in Kitchener (Ontario). Sylvia a prominent local photographer, and Dan a loveable Canadian-rock nerd and musician.. It was hard to go back to my job after the teacher’s strike of Autumn 2017 and not see them anymore. You can hear in these chats that they’re both warm and funny people.



Sylvia Pond in her own right, is a fantastic local photographer, who reluctantly is learning guitar, loves cheese and works for herself. We talked about all of that, and the best/most cheesy thing we both love, 80s hair-metal. Dan Grace was often host or ring-leader of the open-mic nights at the time, I didn’t have direction at all with this interview, Dan and I kind of just goofed off and then I recorded him playing three of his favourite Can-rock songs that are in the same key.. a WONDERFUL coffee chat collection, both! Much love.



This episode features new introductions and content from the vault*; Part 1. Todd’s Café (2018) with Sylvia Pond - Interview. Part 2. Todd’s Café (2018) with Dan Grace - Interview and 3 live performances.



Links:



sylviapond.com

@joojethecat (dan instagram)

@sylviapondphoto (facebook)

@sylviapondphoto (instagram)

@sylviapondphoto (twitter)



Music:



“1979” (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

Performed by Dan Grace

Live on Todd’s Café, in 2018



“Southbound Train” (Jon Foreman cover)

Performed by Dan Grace

Live on Todd’s Café, in 2018



“Grace, To” (Tragically Hip cover)

Performed by Dan Grace

Live on Todd’s Café, in 2018



Credits:



Vault conversation for Sylvia Pond recorded February 20th, 2018, at HQ in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Vault conversation/live performances for Dan Grace recorded March 10th, 2018, at HQ in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.



Host, editor, producer and more: Todd Donald

todddonaldmedia.com

Voice-over on intro/outro: Milo Axelrod

miloaxelrod.com

Theme music: William Chernoff;

excerpts from the recording “Makie Elkino (Live)”

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Conversation-wrap music: JP Sunga

jpsunga.com



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Afternoon Tea - Artist Collective + Record Label

Born of the Shun Club. Shunned since 2012.

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