CURRENT MISSION

To share the empathic response through music performance, anywhere people will listen. I want to perform in every major city.

ABOUT ME

My life is an adventure with many twists and turns...
I am genuine, creative, easy-going, sometimes on the quiet side... I enjoy both crazy adventures, and simple solitude...excited to live during such interesting times and I can't wait to see the world! I love to meet people from other countries and experience the cultures that they live in.

Born in Toronto, Ontario to dancer parents, we moved around for awhile until we eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. I grew up in California, but a piece of my heart and soul still remained in Canada. So 28 years later I moved back and I have been living in Montréal since 2021. Such a vibrant multi-cultural city, I love being here, and I look forward to hosting others in the future.

I've made connections all over the world, but most profoundly on the emerald isle, Ireland. I've been back many times and consider it another soul home of mine. This time I am moving there for a year of studies at University of Limerick, pursuing my Masters in Songwriting at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. I can not think of a better place to return to my ancestral and artistic roots. My next album will be written and recorded during my 2022-23 studies.

PHILOSOPHY

stay true to oneself
find the good in everything
take no prisoners

"In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love to travel, I love to host, I hope I can meet you!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first solo trip in 2008, and stayed virtually every night with a couchsurfing host. It was incredible! I met so many unique and lovely people. In 2012 I took at trip with a friend through England, Netherlands, Germany and France. Since then I've hosted a handful of surfers in California and reconnected with friends in Montréal.

Interests

singing, songwriting, violin, yoga, circus arts, archery, indie films, reading, poetry, painting, sepia tones, silence, the fresh scent of rain, minor key waltzes, the sound of a sleeping dog, joy, spontaneity, storytelling, friendship, love, and more...

• arts
• poetry
• singing
• performing arts
• yoga
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• archery
• circus

Music, Movies, and Books

Musique!
Fink, Damien Rice, Glen Hansard, Mark Geary, Spoon, Tom Waits, Massive Attack, Portishead, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck...

Films!
..The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Disco Pigs, Waking Life, Paris Je T'Aime, Donnie Darko, The Fountain, Rivers and Tides, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix...

Books!
Dubliners, Frankenstein, The Tao of Pooh, 1984, Fight Club, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fahrenheit 451, The Stranger, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, B.C. with a guitar strapped to my front, I played the whole way up. So many of my fellow climbers thanked me for the music distracting them from the arduous journey.

Being crushed by throngs of temple-goers at a full moon ceremony in Bali!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a bit of guitar or piano if you'd like..
and you're always bound to learn something from a good conversation..

Always eager to learn new culinary technique; have any easy dishes that I can make with you?

What I Can Share with Hosts

My music, philosophy, and gratitude!

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ireland, United States

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