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Happy New Year everyone ✨

Thank you for being part of the Copenhagen Music Academy community.

CMA is growing nicely now to be what I hoped it would be - a place for music producers who want real craft, solid skills, and genuine progress.

Over the past year, we were really able to take full advantage of what a live recording studio can offer — for example when we recorded the band Anomy with students from the Advanced Pro course (check it here).

2026 is about going deeper - listening more, making stronger decisions, and creating music that actually lasts.

I’m really looking forward to meeting all of you who’ve signed up for the upcoming courses.

All the best,

Boe (... and 4 year old Birk :-))

I read a book called the Music Lesson by the famous bass player Victor Wooten. It made me very curious about deepening my relationship with music and with mystery. That curiosity lead me to “Vixcamps”, a five-day “Spirit of Music” camp west of Nashville that changed my relationship with music forever. It sent me, after 8 years since my last recording, on a journey “Underneath” - a creative adventure to hunt down and record an eclectic and colourful group of songs that seemed to want to hang out together.  I was very blessed to have the amazing Juno Award-winning Justin Abedin come on board and help me produce this record, as well as Grammy-winning Chad Carlson who mixed the record. It might just be my most eclectic record yet and it’s a bit of a crazy ride. Listen to the record and check out some extra video content here.  Meet you in the music!

In 1980, after losing a leg to cancer, Terry Fox began an epic cross-country journey to raise money for cancer research. After 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (a marathon a day), Terry was forced to stop the run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The cancer had appeared in his lungs. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981. He was only 22, yet his selflessness, his compassion and his tenacity were superhuman and belied his years. As an immigrant from Scotland, I didn't know much about the Terry Fox story but the more I learned about this amazing young man, the more compelled I was to capture his story in song. As I was writing the song, I kept coming back to Terry's unique "foxtrot" double hop I had heard on a documentary. So I incorporated the unique cadence and began building my recording around the sound of Terry's running. The result is "Run Fox Run", a song that has travelled on the inspiration of Terry Fox to “Terry Fox Runs” as far away as Vietnam, Taiwan and India. "His spirit runs farther and stronger each day....." Listen to the song here

We’ve got a couple of shows coming up and would love to see you out there:

Sunday, Jan 18 · 3–5pm

Red Clover Ale Co — Brandon, VT

https://redcloverale.com/

Saturday, March 28 · 6–8pm (CANCELLED)

Shelburne Vineyard — Shelburne, VT

https://www.shelburnevineyard.com/

Swing by for some Django-era jazz, good drinks, and a relaxed afternoon/evening. Hope to see some familiar faces.

My third record, "Tightrope of Dreams", was an album reflecting on the high wire of dreams I had pursued in a career making music, and balancing the influences of my Scottish homeland and my new home in Canada. I think the group of songs, and particularly the title track and album cover, capture this journey. Musically, it is an interesting hybrid between Canamericana and Celtic roots. The album has a couple of songs, "Five Minutes" and "Strong In Broken Places", that were winners in the Unisong and International Songwriting Competitions respectively. The record was mostly tracked at Puck’s Farm and became a collaborative production, working with engineers Keith Mariash and then Michael Banton-Jones. If you are someone who is interested in album liner notes, check out the “Behind The Song” story segments on the lyric and credits pages and listen to the record here.

L to R - Sean O 'Connor, Drew Birston, David Leask, Keith Mariash, Mark Mariash, Steve O'Connor