Matthew McKinney: "Singing at the End" Tour 2025

What:

A uniquely crafted mix of alt-folk concert of original songwriting, a storytelling experience, soap box sermon and homegrown old-time bardic weave for these times.

*Kid friendly but adult-oriented!
*Drug and alcohol-free on site!

Where:
117 King Road Salt Spring Is. BC, Canada V8K 1W9

*Parking: Parking at the land is limited, so park on the road or at or in front of beaverpoint hall (one block away) and walk up. Go past 2nd driveway on King (which will be marked 117) to the third driveway on left into a Cedar Grove. Park there if there is space, and walk through past pond and into the meadow where the concert will be held.

When: 6:30pm-9:30pm

Cost:
Suggested requested contribution of $20 cash, or etransfer to c2VydmljZXRvbGlmZW1lbnRvciB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t

pay-what-you-want for kids 13 and under

Currently fundraising NEW album through pre-sale of album alongside collecting contributions. Check it out here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/matthew-mckinney-musical-storyteller-new-album/x/38655978#/

Singing at the End:

I'm Matthew McKinney, a storyteller and folk singer/ songwriter drawing another circle with my feet over our good green Earth to sing for the people with a brand new set of original songs and stories. I'm a local Salt Springer and will be launching my summer tour to share this dynamic performance with my community.

An old idea is that in times of trouble, songs and stories are just as important nourishment as food and water. These are those times. Economic distress, climate catastrophe, cultural reckoning, and political upheaval to the point of complete rupture and corruption, the emergence and reckoning of truths and untruths yet to be integrated. And yet, here we are, people not unlike people from every other time period learning how to walk this road of life.
This set addresses many of the swirling uncertainties, the larger process we as humanity face in our fates and destinies.

These songs come from the crucible of life, moving through the challenges of our time. This performance flows out of my encounters in the various lineages of folk, blues, and rock and roll, the social movements in counter-culture, and drawing on a deeper nature-connected ancestral past to face the cataclysms of the present.

This year's tour will be to explore the various cultural upheavals we are now experiencing and finding our individual and collective voice amidst it all. It's about the nature of thresholds and transitions and of the circular nature of time, and of facing the rise of authoritarianism and the courageous resistance to oppression of everyday people.

Come away with a truly enjoyable experience that stirs the heart and nourishes the soul, bringing joy and relief.

My music is a blend of musical performance and storytelling that often brings people into a deeper experience that can feel interactive.

As a young man, I was obsessed by the old concept of "bard." Through journeys into wilderness and a practice of mentoring and learning from Earth-based lineages, my performances often bring forward the discourses of human connection with nature, with these transitional times, our ancestral history and it's complexities of belonging to place and within culture, and our personal journeys within these movements.

“Through his original songwriting, Matt McKinney mixes personal story and the mythological, informed by the journey of connecting deeply in the wilderness and a variety of travels through diverse cultures and landscapes. His performative songwriting, driven by creative and interesting vocal melody, poetic lyricism, energetic presence, and skillful guitar playing, provides an experience that can touch your heart, your soul, surprises and awakens the passion to remember our own meaningful journeys of deepening and transformation in connection with the mysteries of life.”

Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you there.
Matthew McKinney

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