The Yukon makes moments...

I was recently in Whitehorse Yukon. Amy Wolter and I were there working with some of the top bands in Whitehorse. The bands we worked with will be showcasing at the WCMA's next month. We had the privilege to spend 3 hours of one-on-one rehearsal and than working with all 8 bands the last day.

The diversity in music was very intriguing. We had everything from Folk, Pop, Rock to Rap! The one thing that I wanted to emphasize was that rules never changed. Each genre of music had the same goal...an emotional connection with the audience. Working with the rap artist really helped reinforce that. We had no instruments to work with, no back up singers, nothing to manipulate other than the rapper himself (Kelvin Smolers)!

Every artist had to find a way to create a connection. We had singer songwriters with either a piano or guitar, we had full bands in costumes! I was once again reminded of the simplicity of our goal. Create Moments, Capture and Engage, and see lives moved to change by the power of your music...by the power of the CONNECTION. Tom explains this so well - check out this DVD Series: ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE STAGE The DVD series is the most comprehensive in the industry. No one else explains our reason for performing like Tom does. No one can give you the insight as to why and HOW we do what we do as musicians.

Without an emotional connection there is no way we can communicate our music to it's fullest potential! I relearned that while working in the Yukon! We do not hit the stage to play music!! We hit the stage to connect with a group of people, the method for this is the music!! I challenge you to take off your musicians hat and place it to the side while putting on the hat of a performer. Allow yourself to be transformed into a communicator, a story teller, an emotional conduit! Allow your audience to feel what you felt when you were stirred to write the song, or the feeling you had when you decided to sing that song!

Tom always says, " People do not buy songs, they buy moments!" GO CREATE MOMENTS!!!

Kevin Pauls