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Stanstead House Concerts Network

Big Medicine & The Stanstead House Concerts Network

Springtime is a wonderful time for renewal..

After 15 years, Big Medicine has taken leave of providing perspectives & daily updates on emergency health services & emergency management.

When I first started I was deeply immersed in the worlds of emergency management and emergency health services.

However, as my life out here in the country (in Stanstead QC - right smackdab on the border with Derby Line VT) unfolded over the past six years, my career - and my life - became much less focused on EM and EHS...

It's funny how 'life happens while you're busy making other plans' or perhaps in the case of an Emergency Manager - 'while you're busy making other peoples' plans'...

So here we are. It's May 2016 and apart from being a dad (twin 17-year-olds about to graduate high school), a husband, and running a boutique management consultancy - my focus is on our family's music adventure. We host house concerts at our place and several other micro-venues in Canada and the United States.

When I first started out as a paramedic/firefighter, I was involved in music. Music has always been an important release for me when my job ghosts came calling. So it's really not that surprising the music world has drawn me back into its fold after all these years.

Big Medicine has closed one chapter while opening another in becoming the on-line magazine for the Stanstead House Concerts Network.

We'll be starting slowly.. so check-in on a regular basis to see new posts about the artists who have performed and will be performing.. updates on the whole musical adventure.. and thoughts on the potential positive impacts of building a music economy.

Thanks for your consideration.
Be well. Practice big medicine.
- Hal Newman, Chief Concert Host

May 7, 2016

Big Medicine…

*Big Medicine is my nod of respect to a First Nations expression that, roughly translated, means the right people working together at the right time will be Big Medicine. I’ve been saying ‘Be well. Practice big medicine’ for as long as I can remember. It is my own very personal version of ‘Sawu Bona’, the Zulu greeting which means ‘I see you’… I see all of you, I see your good works, I see the difference you are making in the world.

- Hal Newman, Chief Concert Host, Stanstead House Concerts Network

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