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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

If you want to know when the next #BandcampFriday is (usually the first Friday of the month, Dec. 5 being the next one), you can always check here:
isitbandcampfriday.com

Get music however and wherever you like, but I like #Bandcamp because I can download my purchase and listen any time, anywhere.

Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?

isitbandcampfriday.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

All That Is Over by SPRINTS
sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-th...

Irish post-punk that continues to impress. 2nd album that seems to be diviating from sounds of their 1st while staying true to whatever journey they're on with what they create. I'm along for the ride.

#BandcampFriday #Bandcamp

All That Is Over, by SPRINTS

11 track album

sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

Dance Called Memory by Nation of Language
nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...

New! One of those groups that when on shuffle and their music comes up, I find myself always checking what's currently playing. Gives me those The Smiths or Joy Division vibes.

#BandcampFriday #Bandcamp

Dance Called Memory, by Nation of Language

10 track album

nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

Friendship & Rock 'N' Roll by Yukon Blonde
yukonblonde.bandcamp.com/album/friend...

I've finally been getting some Yukon Blonde into my library after seeing them playing around Vancouver for years. Have always enjoyed what I've heard. This is their latest release.

#BandcampFriday #Bandcamp

Friendship & Rock 'N' Roll, by Yukon Blonde

11 track album

yukonblonde.bandcamp.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

Inuktitut (Remixes) by Elisapie
elisapie.bandcamp.com/album/inukti...

This is a @Miss604.com discovery. Inuk muscian Elisapie has an all cover album in her indegenous language, which I also picked up, but this remix EP is so good. Her cover of "Dreams" is amazing.

#BandcampFriday #Bandcamp

Inuktitut (Remixes), by Elisapie

3 track album

elisapie.bandcamp.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

BELIEVEYOUME by SHINER
shinerkc.bandcamp.com/album/believ...

One of my all-time favorite bands from my 2nd hometown of Kansas City. They disbanded in 2002 for over a decade and are back with a 2nd album in five years after reuniting. #BandcampFriday #bandcamp

BELIEVEYOUME, by SHINER

10 track album

shinerkc.bandcamp.com

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

Over on Mastodon, I've done a regular thing where I post some of my purchases for #BandcampFriday, where artists get 100% of what you buy.

I'll replicate that here with five purchases I made yesterday in the following thread...

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 2

One of the most respected Indigenous actors of his generation, Greene appeared in more than 200 television shows and movies. He played a Lakota warrior in the 1990 blockbuster Dancing With Wolves.

Oscar-nominated actor Graham Greene, of 'Dances With Wolves,' dies at 73

One of the most respected Indigenous actors of his generation, Greene appeared in more than 200 television shows and movies. He played a Lakota warrior in the 1990 blockbuster Dancing With Wolves.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Sep 2

Pedestrians and cyclists enjoying the forest and waterfront in our gorgeous city 😍

#bikes #cities #vancouver #canada #video

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Sep 1

Trial Islands
and one of the transmitter sites that @johnbollwitt.com has been to for work 📻

Zoomed in on a collection of two small islands in the Salish Sea off Vancouver Island. The islands have no trees, just grass and rock, but there is a lighthouse and four AM transmitter towers. The Olympic Mountain range in Washington State is in the distance across the strait.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 31

Tonight in #Vancouver: We saw some bands @johnbollwitt.com told me about (one of our love languages is introducing each other to music)

Real Estate @realestateband.bsky.social opening up for Tennis at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. Tennis is on their farewell tour.

Collage of two photos: top is a far away view of the concert crowd and bandshell/stage at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. Bottom photo is a closer shot of the band on stage

Collage of two photos: Top is a woman at a keyboard and microphone with one hand playing the instrument and the other on her chest. Lower photo is zoomed out, showing a band mate in the background on the left and the woman at the keyboard in the same post

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 27

On this day in 2017, @johnbollwitt.com and I got to have dinner at a long table event on Parliament Hill in #Ottawa. We were visiting the city because a photo John took had been revealed in the new Canadian History Hall at the @canmushistory.bsky.social

A selfie I took in front of a long table setup on a closed street. People are sitting at the table and John is standing behind me across the table. Behind us are the Canadian parliament building with the tall (92m) peace tower

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · Aug 28

An image that made me stop.

I went to a Catholic elementary school. My only fear was tornado drills.

This makes my heart hurt.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Aug 27

this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following

A parent runs toward the school after the shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · Aug 28

Harm reduction often gets conflated with treatment in discussions about addiction and toxic drugs

They are not the same thing

Countless lives have been saved through clean needles and overdose prevention sites but BC’s policies are always shifting

Pt 3 in my series
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

From shame and secrecy to Suboxone: B.C. drug users credit harm reduction for recoveries

The very phrase “harm reduction” can prompt a fiery debate the moment it’s mentioned, but for the British Columbians who’ve recovered from drug addiction, such policies have been literal lifesavers.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 21

On this day 6 years ago, @johnbollwitt.com and I took a ski-plane up to the world’s largest non-polar icefield, in view of Canada’s highest mountain (Logan)

4th largest icefield in the world technically, behind the North Pole, South Pole, and Greenland.

miss604.com/2019/09/land...

#yukon #travel

Selfie of a woman (me) bundled up in a winter coat, purple toque, and sunglasses on an icefield with a ski-plane in the background surrounded by nothing but rocky mountain peaks in the distance. In the reflection of my sunglasses you can make out Mount Logan’s peak and also John taking photos

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · Aug 18

Popped on Instagram this morning and the first dozen or so things served up to me was all Thomas Müller content in some form.

The first non-Müller post? @idlesband.bsky.social

🤷 🤘

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 12

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 11

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.

Even if those cars are electric.

And then there’s all the parking.

OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.

Choices.

Simple.

Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m road for cars.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 10

More 📸 from Burnaby Blues and Roots yesterday.

Judith Hill
@aysanabee.bsky.social
@anidifrancomusic.bsky.social

The best way to support FREE community events is to attend them, and about 10,000 did 🙌
Thanks to Burnaby for offering this fest. Happy to be a media sponsor.

#musicsky #concert

A person in a hat singing passionately into a microphone, head tilted back, eyes closed, hand raised to about their chin level

A person in boots and black pants on stage with a guitar, photo captured them mid stride with their left toe on the ground and right foot in the air about to stomp

A performer on stage wearing a tasseled black jacket and sunglasses, playing a guitar, singing into a microphone. There are trees from the park on in the background and in the right

View of a performer on stage from back in the crowd. A person on the left is holding hl a phone horizontally, recording video. It’s quite crowded. The stage has giant blue banners on either side that say Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival - City of Burnaby

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 10

Processed a few of my photos from the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival. Great times by the lake!

@anidifrancomusic.bsky.social
Judith Hill
@aysanabee.bsky.social

Thanks to the City of Burnaby for hosting this FREE day of music. Miss604 was proud to be a media sponsor again.

#musicsky🎶

A person standing in front of a microphone smiling, playing a guitar. Trees behind the stage which is filled with white and purple lights

A person singing into a microphone wearing a hat, black dress, and shimmering gold pants. They are also playing the guitar. Sunlight is beaming in from the side of the stage which has trees in the background

A person singing into a microphone while playing the guitar, they are wearing sunglasses. A beam of light creates a starbust by their elbow. There are trees behind the stage as it's an outdoor venue

The crowd on the festival lawn, on blankets and lawn chairs, just after dusk with a slightly orange sky but dark setting as the pink and purple stage lights begin to pop. The big blue banners "Burnaby Blues and Roots" flank either side of the outdoor stage in the park.

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · Aug 10

Why yes, I’m randomly watching St. George Willawong vs Sunshine Coast of the NPL Queensland.

In fact, with 500+ viewers, I think there are more people watching on YouTube than at the match.

Trees on one end, turf that’s seen better days, no announcers, and just one camera that zooms and pans. 😍

A screenshot of a YouTube stream of a football (soccer) match somewhere in Queensland, Australia between St. George Willawong vs Sunshine Coast. Looking down the center line, the stadium is quite small with fairly chewed up turf. There are only three or four bleachers on each side of team’s benches on each side of the center line with only a handful of spectators on each of the bleachers.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · Aug 9

Ani DiFranco sound check at Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival. Main stage starts at 4pm at Deer Lake Park. There’s also a community stage and music at Burnaby Village.