Jed Arbour Interview

Jed Arbour is a force to be reckoned with. We caught them in Calgary during Sled Island, a day after they played a set concussed — bucked in the face by their neighbour's horse, yet soaking in the magic from their favourite festival of the year. Jed talks about their work as a therapist and what it means to walk toward pain instead of around it, moving to an unincorporated hamlet in BC, the naming of Disappointing Dog Park, a stolen clarinet that has turned into a kind of medicine for their concussion (give it to the horn!), and the unreleased album they wrote from two years on the frontline…