Ep 7: Sylvia Pond & Dan Grace (2018)

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 that, and the 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.



Archived chat with Sylvia Pond (originally purposed for Todd’s Café) recorded in Waterloo on February 20th, 2018. Archived chat with & performances (“1979”, “Southbound Train” & “Grace, To”) by Dan Grace (originally purposed for Todd’s Café) recorded in Waterloo on March 10th, 2018. “1979” is a Smashing Pumpkins cover. “Southbound Train” is a Jon Foreman cover. “Grace, To” is a Tragically Hip cover. Voiceover by Milo Axelrod, theme music by William Chernoff, piano outro by JP Sunga, everything else by Todd Donald. Presented in part, by Afternoon Tea. afternoontealabel.com

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