The Packin’ Light Tour, and it’s initial incarnation, “The Very Official and Highly Professional Apples of ‘94 Tour, 2017” were rough sketches of ideas that we put into action. At the most basic level, they involved me cycling long distances carrying around a bunch of musical instruments and engaging with people, and camping out in the landscape at night.

It was an attempt to play with some ideas around sustainability, energy, art, and interaction, but at the time I didn’t think about it too much. I just kind of did it, learned some stuff, then did it again. In 2021 I used a masters program to look back at those tours and try to discover what they were, and what happened, and maybe even what they meant, looking at them through the lens of community music, place making, and environmentalism.

I will write more about this soon, but for now you can watch the mini-doc that we put together from footage from the first tour, as well as my spot on Global News.