Michel Néray

In speaking with Michel Neray, one quickly senses that his music extends far beyond melody and lyric. He approaches songwriting as a lens through which to examine the paradoxes of life — the tension between leaning in and letting go…

On June 23, I catapulted myself into a cascade of 7 concerts in 8 days around Lake Superior. The journey began right on the day 1 drive to Sudbury and culminated on the Manitoulin Ferry, carrying me home.

Spoiler alert…

I recorded this as an experiment to see how I can combine the different effects on my pedalboard. After I was done, I thought, ‘well, maybe you’d be interested in seeing some of the behind-the-scenes process work that goes into…

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The Internet and social media were supposed to make it easier to stay in touch with people, but the reality is that it’s getting harder, and even harder to stay in the loop on shows, new releases, and…

Funny how things happen. I met Brian Tremblay at a music conference and we instantly became friends. 

Then he asked to interview me on his podcast, 'Lonesome Cowboy' -- which focuses on the life, the struggles, and…

My new album, 'being (human)', drops on all streaming platforms on November 3. I suppose it goes without saying that I really like it... and I do!!!

Of course, I think you'll like it too, and I hope you listen…

Every year I go on a pretty intense whitewater canoe trip.  This past summer, I wrote a song as a tribute to a certain campsite on the Dumoine River, named after the towering red pine that sits right by the…

I just released a new song, and I'm so happy with it. It's called 'I Do', and it's the second single from my upcoming album, titled 'Human. Being. '

Unlike the first single from the album that, I put out…

One of the trickiest aspects of great storytelling is knowing what the point of your story is. It’s tricky because we don’t always know what the point is when we first come up with the idea for the story and…

Two weeks ago, I was interviewed by two very different people on two very different topics, and somehow, we dug down to the same place. Both were fascinating conversations, and both interviewers got me talking about things I was not…

One the best-known painters in America in the mid-1900's was Andrew Wyeth. He painted the people and landscapes around him, mostly near his home in rural Pennsylvania and his summer home in Maine. In 1986, a series of over 247…

‘Kiss the Rock’ is an expression that comes from canoeing/kayaking. It refers to paddling a whitewater river and hitting a rock broadside. Most people’s instinct would be to lean away from the rock, but the correct thing to do is…