For OAW #7, tenor-toned, Dixie strumming songster, Robbie Cavanagh swings by Manchester’s Northern Quarter with a couple’a pretty ditties in his heart and a self-devised, surname rhyme scheme we can o...

For OAW #6 bewhiskered brothers Lyon Apprentice grace a music store showroom floor with a tandem duet on a shiny grand piano way out of their skill or price range. Looking as though they’ve halfway re...

For OAW #5 our fair-skinned, auburn-platted chorister RUNAH set up shop on Chorlton's Beech Road and wowed fellow brunch goers with her droning minor keys, her haunting melodies and a face so beautifu...

For OAW #4 FAIRCHILD purchased the finest floppy grandma hats Chorlton charity shops had to offer and loaded up on cider and snags in true ‘sun’s out, guns out’ fashion. The boys were kind enough to r...

For OAW #3 we told our friend Dom Major to don some of his highest quality Friday night denim and meet us in a stranger’s living room. Canvas Sounds supplied a hairdresser and makeup artist as old Dom...

For OAW #2 we let our Irish correspondent First Pope into an East Didsbury pub against the wishes of management and patrons alike - armed only with a guitar and a quiff of hair so high even Conan O’Br...

For OAW #1 our kid Calan Mai puts on his best pair of denim shorts and serenades some pretty birds in his backyard. And by birds we mean winged, flying creatures.   As per protocol our young troubad...

Canvas Sounds’ ‘On a Whim’ is a series of live recording sessions filmed in and around Manchester, UK. OAW sessions present musicians at their most vulnerable, playing with little to no rehearsal time...