Muse-ic Mondays: Issue 5

Every once in a while, MTV plays music. And every once in a while, it plays some pretty great music.

And sometimes MTV even invites the general public to watch this great music being performed live for free.

Last Wednesday, I headed down to the MTV Canada studios in Toronto to watch folk rockers The Wooden Sky perform on MTV Live.

The Wooden Sky played three songs, for two of which they brought their friends Evening Hymns on stage.

Even though putting on a Wooden Sky album may cause eyes to water, thoughts to rewind, and buried memories to resurface, the band's live performance felt quite moving in a refreshing, cleansing kind of way. Perhaps it was the Evening Hymns' additional vocals and instrumentals that made the songs feel a little less melancholy.

And isn't it just sweet as pie when musicians share microphones?

Ok, so the band only played three songs, but it was just enough of a music fix to float me through the rest of the week.



p.s. check out Songs & Cigarettes blogger Braden Rosner's article on The Wooden Sky's latest album in Death + Taxes magazine here. This guy knows his music (and he's pretty funny too).