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Song carrier, composer, documentary producer, podcast creator and host.
Song carrier, composer, documentary producer, podcast creator and host.
When I was little, people in my small Ontario town knew me as the girl who sang all the way to school and back. At home, I was the star of our kitchen parties — singing folk and country songs while my uncle played the spoons and my grannie step danced. Music as the call to gather.
My path then took me into decades as a classical mezzo-soprano, performing on stages across Canada and abroad — music that was complex, intellectual, carefully constructed. It was beautiful, but I felt like something was missing. Only in the last few years have I brought all of myself into my creative work, including my Georgian Bay Métis ancestry. Drumming with my urban Indigenous community, I’ve reconnected to an ancestral understanding: a song’s power is in its ability to be shared. My Anishinaabe brother and Elder, Rene Meshake, taught me that the music is already in the land — you just have to listen for it. That changed everything.
These days, I see music as a way to bring people back to themselves. When we sing together — when we share breath and vibration — we remember something ancient and true: that we belong. Sharing songs, for me, is a radical action. When we sing together, and we sing the land, we become one again with all our relatives.
Check out the links below to hear my choral composition, podcast work, CBC doc work, and what solo song for guitar, flute and drum.
If you’re interested in seeing scores, performing any of my works, or discussing a commission, please be in touch.
Listen to My Music
The Flight of the Hummingbird
My contribution to an online educational guide for The Flight of the Hummingbird, an opera for youth. I take you on a walk through the woods and share my healing song.
Live Performances
Listen to My Podcasts
The Sunday Edition
My first major documentary came through The Sunday Edition as I was a selected for a mentorship with The Doc Project. It allowed me to create my first long form documentary under the mentorship of Karen Levine, the documentary producer of The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright. ' The Gift' aired on Mother’s Day May 15, 2015. It tells the story of a man who always new he was adopted, but found out who is mother was too late. This documentary is a journey we take with him to meet the women who sang in Sister Mary’s choir and even made records in Smithers, never knowing she had a baby while she was a Nun.
How do I, a middle aged white woman survive encroaching menopause?
I try to meet the demons of aging and mid-life spread with a hip- hop class.
or inside the CBC show itself, you can hear it here.
Tapestry
I have always loved this show. The first documentary I was ever hired to make, came from Tapestry. It was 2016, and I was going on a Vision Quest in the Mojave Desert. Three days in Joshua Tree National park under a tarp. Only water for sustenance. No books, phones or entertainment. A journal, and the mission to discover the meaning of my life. That documentary never was created because all the tape was so quiet. There was no sound on the desert. It was one long audio journal. Not compelling radio. Instead Mary Hynes and I interviewed and shared my insights and experiences. After that, I did several docs for Tapestry. I’ve always been trying to crack the nut of a good life.
I became a Buddhist in 2011. It’s been an important part of my journey and a rich source of reflection. This piece is called: Sit down, Rise Up-Engaged Buddhism.
I discover that the selfie isn’t all my camera in my phone can do.
It can be a conduit to the rich world of here and now. This is my radio documentary about the Buddhist art form of Contemplative Photography. This piece is called: Fresh Eyes.
Now or Never
I received an email inviting me to pitch something for the Christmas show. And this is what I came up with. It was quite an experience as I roped my kids into doing random acts of kindness throughout the city of Victoria. All caught on tape.
North By Northwest
My family and I try to renegotiate Christmas with all the idiosyncrasies that a modern family can hold. This aired in 2013.
The Current
My talk with Anna Maria Tremonti was a true highlight of this work. This is the one CBC piece I did that got the most mail. It was rebroadcast a few times as well. I think it struck a chord, because people wanted to help their pets and wondered how I did it. It’s a talk/tape. I gathered the tape and created a script that Anna Maria and I worked from.
We have our Dog Back
