pandemic porch concerts
Toronto Star, oct. 2020
Around 30 people might come out on any given Friday night, most of them
sitting across the road from Cummings’ porch, eating, drinking, and socializing.
“People would say, ‘I look forward to this every week. It’s one of the highlights of
my week,’” Cummings says.
“It was really fun because I would start to play at 6:30, and could just see people
popping out of their front doors and some of them would wander up ... a little
closer so they could see who was playing,” he says. “But it was quite funny.
Suddenly people were outside.”
The magic of the porch performances was in how they brought the community
together, says Cummings.
Gary Proctor (Gary 17) ‘NOTES ON FROM THE UNDERGROUND’ Toronto Moon Website, 2017:
“Time Flies” is a meditative, philosophical and poignant yet still very accessible tune about how moments become decades, of how time slides on by while we, preoccupied with the fun and challenges of the present, aren’t paying attention to the larger rhythms of life. It’s a theme that recurs throughout the disc, on both the aforementioned title track [Rescued You] and the kickoff tune [This is Just Alright] as well as in another longtime Cummings hit, “Honey Harbour”, which rebooted here gets a more soulful treatment while still retaining the musical pace and appeal of the original.
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