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DELICATE CAGES

1. Because We're Free
2. Fort McMurray
3. Mercy
4. Hudson Girl
5. Cage Fighter
6. Madeline
7. Son Of Hamas
8. Visiting Day
9. The Lonesome Death Of Aqsa Parvaz
10. There Are Only Cages
11. Because We're Free (Reprise)

Delicate Cages takes its title from the Robert Bly poem, TAKING THE HANDS:
Taking the hands of someone you love/You see they are like delicate cages...


Delicate Cages aims to reveal the complicit natures of good and evil, love and fear, and freedom and imprisonment. The DELICATE CAGES we live within are forms of enslavement - and not all 'cages' are necessarily bad. On his latest and most urgent and accessible collection of songs, Jon Brooks promises freedom to all who choose love over fear.

MOTH NOR RUST

1. War Resister
2. When We Go
3. The Crying of the Times
4. God Pt. IV
5. Small
6. If We Keep What's Within Us, What's Within Us
7. Will Kill Us But If We Give What's Within Us...
8. In The Alleys
9. Safer Days
10. The Crying of the Times (Reprise)
11. There is Only Love

Moth Nor Rust is a hopeful answer to the questions raised by No Mean City and Ours And The Shepherds. In the spirit of Guthrie and Seeger, these songs offer us something greater than warning; they offer us the possibility of spiritual renewal, greater justice, love, and healing. Essentially, these solo performances celebrate all that neither moth nor rust can touch. The title is taken from Matthew 6:19 - 21.

OURS AND THE SHEPHERDS

1. Jim Loney's Prayer Part I
2. Mimico
3. Tajik Boy
4. Kigali
5. Auction Days
6. Groesbeek
7. Sgt. Tommy Prince
8. Cigarettes
9. The Latest Great Embarrassment
10. The Padre
11. Hill 677
12. Jim Loney's Prayer Part II
13. In Flanders Fields

From No Mean City's failed neighbours, failed nations come. 2007's Ours And The Shepherds is a collection of Canadian war stories from WWI through to the current missions in Afghanistan. 13 songs inspired by, and in part about, Canadians living with the memory of war zone suffering: James Loney, Senator Romeo Dallaire, Sgt. Tommy Prince, Chaplain William Henry Davis, Frank P. Dixon, and John McRae, to name a few. Ours And The Shepherds earned a 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Best Songwriter. Penguin Eggs deemed it "a thoroughly wonderful and truly important addition to the canon of Canadian folk music."

NO MEAN CITY

1. No Mean City
2. No Good
3. How Good It Is to Love Someone, How Right it is to Care
4. Miracle On Bleecker Stree
5. The Curve of the Earth
6. St. James Town
7. Two Storey Town
8. The Industrial Part of Town
9. Kept Plans
10. Stairwell Anniversary
11. MIchael Power
12. By the Lake

No Mean City (2006) takes 12 Toronto addresses and turns them into songs. Beginning with the proud outer face of architecture, the songs move inward to discover our interiors are not in accord with the exteriors. Collectively, the songs make the forceful argument: that homelessness on today's urban streets is a final consequence of the homelessness that is the modern urban soul.

Date City Venue Country
06/25/13 Jon Brooks in Toronto Songwriting Workshop Canada
Time: 7:30pm. Buy tickets
09/20/13 Jon Brooks in Downers Grove, IL Two Way Street Coffeehouse United States
Time: 8:00pm. Address: 1047 Curtiss Street. Buy tickets
09/27/13 Jon Brooks in Livonia, MI Trinity House Theatre United States
Time: 7:30pm. Address: 38840 W. Six Mile. Buy tickets
09/28/13 Jon Brooks in East Lansing, MI Pump House Concerts Canada
Time: 7:00pm. Address: 368 Orchard St. Buy tickets
10/05/13 Jon Brooks in Nelson, BC Ellison’s Cafe Canada
Time: 7:30pm. Address: 523 Front Street. Buy tickets
11/01/13 Jon Brooks in Ormstown, Quebec Cafe NamasThe Canada
Time: 8:00pm. Buy tickets
11/10/13 Jon Brooks in Middltown, RI Heal Co Op Benefit United States
Time: 7:30pm.
05/02/14 Jon Brooks in Saratoga Springs, NY Caffe Lena United States
Time: 7:30pm. Address: 47 Phila Street. Buy tickets
05/04/14 Jon Brooks in Phoenicia, NY Empire State RR Museum United States
Time: 8:00pm.

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