Born in Toronto, Hugh Chris Brown is a singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, recording engineer, producer, head of a record label, activist and founder of the Pros and Cons Program. His Pros and Cons music program mentors inmates through all aspects of making music, from writing, to recording and releasing it. Beyond his own music, Chris has performed, collaborated with and recorded for many artists – Ani DiFranco, Joan As Police Woman, Tony Scherr, Barenaked Ladies, Ashley MacIsaac, Crash Test Dummies and Jen Chapin, to name a few. He was a founding member and a key player in the alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s and continues to perform and collaborate with former ‘Bourbons’ Kate Fenner and Jason Mercer. Chris and Kate toured with and opened for BB King. Though his instrumental preferences favor clavinet, piano and organ, Chris is also adept at guitar, trombone and tuba. He is very passionate about hockey and has dubbed himself a “Slave to Cats”.
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The Village Way
Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World
For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?
Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,
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