ABOUT

Born in 1950, on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River on Treaty Six Territory, to Italian and Irish/Scottish/English first generation settlers, Anthony began writing songs at 15 on a Sears Silvertone guitar. Taken with the harmonies of the Beach Boys, and the singer-songwriter gifts of Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, and Joni Mitchell, music has guided Anthony through seven decades of discovering what it is to be alive and human.

He has released two full-length albums: Already Broken (produced by Oliver Johnson in 2008) and Love Takes No Prisoners (produced by Brian MacMillan in 2013), which have reached listeners locally and internationally. Anthony’s rendition of Harry Burleigh’s spiritual, Motherless Child (on the album, Already Broken), was featured in Ian Connacher’s award-winning documentary, Addicted To Plastic (bullfrogfilms.com).

2024 marks the release of Mystery’s Desire, a 15-song consideration of elderhood, legacy, and the Capitalocene, honouring later musical influencers, Leonard Cohen, Ian Tyson, and Mark Knopfler. Brian MacMillan is again featured as producer and multi-instrumentalist.

Moving to Ontario for graduate school, Anthony has been a clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Toronto since 1974. Steeped in reckoning with the environmental crisis since the early 90’s, Anthony’s psychotherapy practice increasingly focuses on “The Great Work”, what cultural historian, Thomas Berry, describes as the primary task of our present times: realigning our identities and value systems with the intelligence of the Earth. Anthony was one of the founding members of Climate Psychology Alliance North America (www.climatepsychology.us)

Intimate relationship as spiritual practice, meditation and yoga, weekly adventures with his three young grandchildren, gardening, hockey, reading, and cycling the streets of Toronto year round keep Anthony humbled and grateful.