Dear Music Family, HOPE is an action word! One of the blessings of my life and career is that I have the opportunity to fill many different roles through any given year. My role as a musician can take on multiple personas: performer, song leader, educator, arranger, healer, advocate for inspiration… the list evolves endlessly. […]
Dear Music Family, By this time, fully agitated and overwhelmed by this frustrating and relentlessly maddening election cycle, I am sure you will join me as I quote civil rights icon Fanny Lou Hamer in saying, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired” … of all this mess! This never-ending circus is fortunately […]
Dear Music Family, This is an exciting time to be alive in a summer of unexpected surprises. The last two months have rocketed by as I traveled the country teaching at Swannanoa Gathering, Summersongs, TradMad, and various gigs including two youth camps in Maine that I’ve been connected to for over 35 years. The April […]
Dear Music Family, I’m still very much on a high from the release of my memoir Searching for Solid Ground in April. The book events and early reviews have been a delightful new experience for this musician’s heart. As one who never thought that authoring a book would be added to my list of accomplishments, […]
Greetings Good People, It is with mixed emotions that that I say goodbye to 2022. It was a year that was full of contradictions and outlandish revelations, rife with global conflicts, hosted one of the most contentious US midterm elections and saw divisions and nationwide tensions widen. And with all of that, it was also […]
Greetings Friends. Today, amidst a muddle so many other pressing global and personal life events, we have the opportunity to celebrate the remarkable life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Most of the country will spend this day focused in other directions. That he was a major force in bringing our reluctant nation into an […]
Hey Friends! Got a minute? I’ve got a question for you. Here in the waning/not so waning weeks of this pandemic, that just won’t seem to go away, I’m thinking about the various upsides that might have occurred for you in that VERRRRRY obvious downside of the limbo we’ve all been living through. (And yes, […]
The Essence of Hope March came in like a wildebeest, and I’ve been on the run ever since! I barely know where to start sharing. I released a music video of my song “It’s Who We Are!” from my new CD On Solid Ground. https://youtu.be/ll6S4LgjmU8w That was quickly followed by a fall on some black […]
WHY I’M NOT SCARED (Here me out!) I wasn’t gonna write this! In fact, I talked myself out of it at least five separate times. I said to myself, “There’s just too much stuff out there. Who will read it or HEAR it in the way you intend?” That was before my friend and colleague […]
Dear Music Family, I’m sitting in my living room, socially distancing in isolation tonight as I’m watching the Democratic National Convention on TV. Despite all of the conflicting, depressing and heart wrenching news stories that stream from media sources every day, I still find myself filled with a new level of energy and joy as […]