dave borins - EAST BOUND and UP V BLOG #6 - St Johns 3/3: hiking w/ hangovers

Dave and Jordan took time out of their busy performance schedule to enjoy the natural wonder of the East Coast! Download dave's music at http://www.itunes.com/daveborins
Set to Poison Tree, this video is the third in the St Johns trilogy, and the second last in the series!

Toronto musician Dave Borins brings insightful brand of acoustic rock n roll
Dave Borins has an inquisitive mind and an impulse for adventure. From the time he graduated high school nearly a decade ago, the 26-year-old expert backcountry guide has spent a fair bit of time abroad, trekking the Andes and the Himalayas and playing music wherever he goes.
Unlike most guides, Borins always packs his guitarlele — a guitar-ukulele hybrid — or his friendship stick, as he often calls it.
Bringing the instrument on his first real trip alone to Nepal when he was 18, he says, forever changed the way he understood music.
Every single night I was able to pull out this guitar and by the end there was, say, a dozen people, and we had become the best of friends, he recalls.
When hes not working a shift at Torontos Mountain Equipment Co-op, Borins might be found somewhere in the haystack of local bars, pubs and music venues belting out an original composition of his brand of acoustic rock n roll.
But the inspiration to do it, he says, is a direct consequence of that first night on a Himalayan trail when he discovered the universality of music as a form of communication.
Immediately, all language barriers fall. And immediately, all cultural barriers fall, he explains. All of a sudden youre connecting with people in a very quick way when normally you have to spend a lot of time with somebody and really try to search for things to talk about.
- Justin brake "st johns telegram" sept 4th 2009

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[chefheather]

Love this video! So many memories of home. And you stayed in a Yurt! So did I in BC once. Very cool. Very funny. Thanks boys!

[marcborins]

He scares easily.. hahah.. Dave Borins in the bushes.. very funny stuff!!!

[sugarmagnoliamaniac]

thats what you get when you messss with me!!!!!!!!!!!