Upcoming Tour Dates and Pics

Johnny Eden and Rozalind MacPhail
BC / Alberta Tour

Saturday May 13 -The Minstrel Cafe, Kelowna, BC

Monday May 15 - The Railway, Vancouver, BC (w/Kyle Cameron)

Tuesday May 16 - Spiral Cafe, Victoria, BC

Wednesday May 17 - Duncan Garage Showroom, Duncan, BC

Thursday May 18 - Cambie Cafe, Nanaimo, BC

Saturday May 20 - Grand Central Emproium, Galiano Island, BC

Monday May 22, Victoria Day! - Pattis Finn's, Campbell River, BC

Wednesday May 24 - The Drake, Canmore

Thursday May 25 -Tongue 'n Groove, Lethbridge, Alberta

Friday May 26 - Karma, Calgary, Alberta (w/Brunner)

Saturday May 27, 4-6pm - Black Dog Freehouse, Edmonton

This is quite the entertaining photo! Meet my tall Chicago friend Shaun and my tall Vancouver friend Kevin. Here I stand with them in the pouring rain after a full night of partying it up at the Emily Carr Institute's graduating party...We were soaked!

Catching the Broadway "99B" bus to Emily Carr...This was one of the most fun trips I have EVER had on the bus! We had everyone singing Happy Birthday to this complete stranger...You had to be there...

A really cool art exhibit at Emily Carr...

New Recordings

Hi Friends!

I finally have some new recordings uploaded on MySpace and I invite you to have a listen.

www.myspace.com/rozalindmacphail

These recordings were done at the Banff Centre as a collaborative recording project with audio engineer Jeong Seon Choi. I wrote these three songs while I was doing my residency there in songwriting from January - March 2006. There are two other songs that I may eventually share with you as well.

These recordings represent chapter two of my songwriter's journey. They are a good representation of where I was at last March, after exactly one year of playing the guitar. It's funny - it's now May and I already feel like a totally different musician than what I hear in these recordings. I think that's why I value recording every part of the songwriting journey so much. Gotta document the journey, that's for sure.

I wonder, what will chapter three be like? : ) I'm pretty excited to get in the studio again soon as I have lots of new songs to share...

About the Songs:

All The Sweet Things That You Do

I wrote this song after a very sexy night with a very sexy guy.

Crying on The Inside

I wrote this one as I sat in my Banff Centre music studio in the middle of a winter night, candles burning and the wind outside fighting to stay alive ...It was one of those moments when I was thinking about how tired I was of always having to put on a happy face for people, even when I was "crying on the inside."

Life's Gonna Turn Around For You

This one came to me on a sunny Saturday afternoon after I met Sarah Slean who was at the Banff Centre the same time I was. There had just been a beautiful snowstorm and I was having a fun moment, making a snowman outside. I kept thinking that I'd be alright if I could just remember the good moments and remember that life always turns around, even in those dark moments. I decided to put it into a song to always remind myself of the good stuff.

Thank you:

To Jeong Seon Choi, Josh Tidsbury and everyone at the Banff Centre who contributed their time and energy to making these recordings happen. A huge thanks goes out to the talented Banff Centre musicians, especially Fred Demers, Catherine Thompson and Antonio Gonazales for their beautiful performances.

How I Love Vancouver!

What can I say? I LOVE Vancouver. It feels so great to be in a city where I can connect with so many cool artists from all different backgrounds. So far, I've met dancers, singer-songwriters, bands, visual artists, photographers and actors...The list of fascinating people I have met since I've been here is huge.

This is The Stills performing at Richard's on Richard's last week. They did a great set.

And the main reason I went to see that particular show - to see my friends from Toronto, The Diableros who rocked the house that night, so much that I was dancing during their entire set. Good times...It was great to see them again. How I love the new album.

Pete Carmichael, the man responsible for me beginning to learn the guitar. He gave me his classical guitar to use last March and I have been passionate about it ever since.

My friend Wes, Wesley Knight of the Vancouver band, Trike showing me how to play chords with a more relaxed left hand position.

Stephen, the other half of the Vancouver band Trike, is taking a nap in this pic with his best friend beside him...We had a really fun night last Friday, checking out the town and going to art parties on Main Street. It was a late one though so the next day wasn't pretty...


This is a shot from an artist's party I went to. It was an interesting evening...People all dressed up in costume, interesting artistic displays, performances by musicians with film...you name it, it was there. This was a cool room that had interesting lights...

The two women who were putting moles on people at the same party. Very interesting...

A cool spot on Commercial Drive, around 2 in the morning...


Can you tell I'm happy?

Life is good... : )

Love Rozalind