Brookfield North

My Little Boat is a true story of how a refugee named Assef left his home due to war and prejudice. Assef’s story traces a journey over land and sea, his rejection of citizenship everywhere he turned, and finally, his…

I Must Go was a standard in the early days of Brookfield (North). It was a fun song about moving from traditional folk and exploring other styes. This recording is from the The Brook’s Sister’s album, The Carport Sessions, I…

Immigrant’s Son is the last cut from our first album Medicine Lands. It deals directly with loss of my dear friend Enzo. I reminisce throughout the song; the here and now, the memories, the power of  his faith, the sparkle…

This song is track seven from our Leave This Blue album, 2025.

My Heart Belongs To You was written for Joy. The verses trace where we are now, our history in the early years, and what lies before us. The…

Bye Bye Blue is track eleven from our Medicine Lands album, it started as a jam then morphed into a completed song. The lyrics are simple, just a blue’s expression that we gave a live smokey bar feeling.

This week’s…

Last Time I Saw Anna was written after the passing of my life long friend Enzo. It was sudden, on a Christmas Day a week after his marriage. It was gut punch for everyone, impossible to understand, he seemed so…

After watching interviews with spouses of career military members, one interview inspired me to write the song Elijah, about the partner of a soldier. Each night after the children went to bed she left a light on above their back…

Oh Marie dates back to a bygone era that portrays a colourful view of the union dance. All the characters mentioned here are real life personalities, and my father and mother are the main protagonists . My father was an…

Billie was written as a homage to one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. The first time I heard “what a little moonlight can do,” I was hooked. The way she manipulated the phrasing and groove of the…

Version 1 - Brookfield North
Version 2 - Sid Torrant (aka John Cini) covered on his new album Plain Folk

One More Time is an observational piece I wrote about two star crossed lovers whose relationship was flawed and doomed…

The title and text for Blue Haven came from a eulogy I wrote for my Uncle Walter. I loved him. To this day I think of him often, his quiet reserve and how he passed on so many life skills…

Traitor’s Moon came from the depth of night, when I laid in bed listening to the shunting of box cars and trains passing through my home town from far off places. The punctuation of their whistle, long and short filled…

The root of Evening From Hillcrest extends back to when I was a little boy doing my nightly paper route. The last part of of my evening delivery was along Hillcrest Drive (where I now live) and from this vantage…

I wrote this song with the intent of revisiting my dysfunctional school years and the trickle down effect it had on me and so many of my classmates.
School yard decorum, strict dress codes, silence in the halls, detentions and…

Joy always wanted me to write a song in the style of one of her favourite artists, the great Brazilian jazz singer Flora Purim, who became prominent for her work on Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke,…

Here it is March and we’ve had a long traditional winter. Frigid temperatures and endless snow, still, I love this season but I’m looking forward to Spring. 
I don’t wish time away but a robin at my door or fleshy…

I wrote this piece to bring focus to the loss of our clear seasonal divisions of the year. The musical sections are divided into an  A - B - A - C format.  Each one represents a season with one…

On our camping trips to northern Quebec we would pass an old farmhouse nestled in the Laurentian’s foothills. Each time in passing we would be drawn to this nine empty room home, long deserted, left to it’s own demise. It…

Strangers is a song about the complexity of love and relationships; love being one of life’s greatest mysteries.

Stellar playing by Jeff, Mark and Alex, with Joy’s beautiful scat on the outro, colour this song in a beautiful light.

This…

This song was written to address the on-line epidemic of false news and misinformation we live with daily. How we can collectively change this false narrative, burn the plan and join the rising tide against the right wing and Leave…