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Kev Corbett

is an Apathy is Boring artist.

Kev Corbett is one of the best of Eastern Canada’s bumper crop of fine young songwriters. His new album, ‘Son of a Rudderless Boat’ (which has so far reached #3 on the NCRA folk/roots chart) features 10 acoustic-flavored tracks that both engage and entertain, with zinger lyrics and a sound that starts at 'acoustic' and goes from there.

His recent coming-out party at the Lunenburg Folk Festival in Nova Scotia earned him a long standing ovation, and a buzz status among the crowd and industry vets alike for the weekend. He has placed twice in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival song contest, and played legendary folk rooms The Yellow Door (Montreal), The Free Times Cafe (Toronto), and Club Passim (Cambridge MA).

His music gets played both regionally and nationally on Canadian public radio, and he tours more and more every year.

Message from Kev Corbett:

His music gets played both regionally and nationally on Canadian public radio, and he tours more and more every year.

Message from Kev Corbett:

I'm a songwriter, and primarily concerned with how we all coexist with each other: how we act (or don't) to save this planet for the next seven generations, how we can make First Nations included and respected, how we can intelligently discuss politics amid the inanity of both mass culture trends and Parliament; how we find true, deep happiness for ourselves and communities, and co-operation with the larger world.

I'm interested in truth, both personal and public. I am interested in doing good work, being able to look my peers in the eye, my fans, my world; and to seek and speak honesty at all cost. This motivates my participation with AisB. Our current Parliamentary system is a sludge of unelected partisan lobbyists vetting every policy and sending out 10 percenters, soundbyte-think, and pandering to the most active demographic, which is currently people 50 and up. The Economy is not the only metre-stick of how we're doing. As a songwriter, I don't have to answer to any electorate, so I can ask questions and voice opinions that otherwise do not get heard.

I support:

A few ways you can make a difference:

- Don't trust your grocery store.
- Call politicians of all stripes on their incessant partisan talking- point bullshit.
- Find out and talk to others about what's going on.

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What music are you listening to / art are you checking out these days?

What music are you listening to / art are you checking out these days?

Music that generally displays a good heart, and stunning writing. See The Swell Season, Catherine MacLellan, Old Man Luedecke, Jill Barber, Acres and Acres, Rose Cousins, David Myles, Bruce Cockburn, Stephen Fearing, Steven Bowers, and Ron Hynes, among many others.

Why should people, especially youth, vote?

Why everyone needs to vote: because the environmentally scared - the international and unborn majority - are being marginalized in the interest of short-term economic growth, and neither that fact nor the status quo of a dictatorial, vindictive, secretive, unaccountable right-wing government are acceptable to me, or, I think, to you.

For you, is there a connection between art and democracy? What is it?

Democracy didn't create any fear in the airline industry: United Breaks Guitars did. Fringe voices are drowned out by our first-past-the-post system, and the lowest common denominator dominates. My art not only gives me a sense of having a voice, but gives voice to what my 'people' have always felt, but maybe rarely expressed, validated by someone else. Art is the fire under democracy's ass.

Why do you care about your community, when it is so easy not to?

I tried isolation, cynicism, and apathy when I was younger, and it's stupid. Community means mutual support, deep friendships, true richness, and ultimately individual and collective survival. I see the current trends of the western world - towards narcissism, debt, cheap imported stuff, and profit - as parallel to the decay of communitarian thinking.

What do you look for in a politician? What do you expect from your Member of Parliament?

If you got elected to bring accountability to government, you bloody well answer the phone. If someone questions our involvement in a foreign war, you don't obfuscate why we're there, nor robotically accuse them of hating our military, nor let our people fall through the cracks when they come home not OK. There are real conversations to be had here, and speaking in talking points does not serve the national interest. I expect my MP to be an iconoclast, not a yes-woman. I expect my MP to speak for my area, which she does. I expect my MP to push Canada to be better, which she does.

Wha causes do you actively support?

As a musician mine often have to do with listening - I keep myself aware of public issues, away from advertising, and engaged with other songwriters by listening to a variety of public media - CBC, Democracy Now, Rabble Radio, Folk Alley, and WUMB Folk radio.

Aside from that, we're involved in an ongoing process of switching our house over to a mostly local/seasonal/organic menu. Food supply is our cause. We've 95% fired the grocery store. We decided not to buy winter tomotes, or any bananas, or Chilean red peppers, etc. Nothing processed, nothing industrial. Read the ingredients and question them. We know our farmers by name, and know where and how our food is grown. What goes unto commercial pet food ISN'T COOL, so our cat eats raw, local organic red meat (he's gone from morbidly obese and bitchy, to trim and happy and shiny). We are highly invested in suppoting local producers, and I talk a lot in shows about my local farmers' market.

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Son of a Rudderless Boat
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http://www.kevcorbett.com/

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Kev Corbett

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