Hello! Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day weekend. I’m happy to say that the studio at Lady Bass Music got a major makeover over the past weekend. New carpet, new paint, good overall cleaning job….there’s a nice energy to the place now. Students and visitors are calling it inviting and “a bit serene”. The Read More …
Month: November 2016
Shenanigans
We’re backstage, at the start of a show. The Edwin Drood pit orchestra. We’re in a “loft-pit”, as I’ve come to call it…a second-story loft that is above the stage area. This pit is not visible to the audience, so shenanigans do occur. I’m sitting on the floor next to my bass. It’s a two-show Read More …
RIP Leonard Cohen
“There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah” RIP, and thank you for the music. You created one of my favorite songs to cover. A song that harkens to spacious scaredness of a heart rendered tender by brokenness, a heart rendered tender by Read More …
Wear your arrows…
Life changes us. Wear your scars and arrows. They landed to scar you, change you, create something new…to change the course of your life for the better. I usually don’t post memes, but this resonates this week as I watch people around me struggling with various but necessary changes in their lives. My favorite part Read More …
Flow State…
11/6/2016 – Tech week for Drood has passed, plus the opening night and the first weekend…8 days. Last Saturday feels like a solid MONTH ago. A million things have happened….teaching, tech week, load-in, sound checks, preps for a recording session, practicing, another gig in Leesburg, booking gigs…the list goes on. Looking in my recycle bin, Read More …
Updates on Projects and News
11/3/2016 – Tonight was the opening night of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at UMW. Tech week has concluded, and we tumble into opening weekend. One show down, 13 to go. The pit for this show is on a platform above the stage about 5 to 6 feet wide, maybe 25 to 30 feet long Read More …
Check out this Fellow Artist and Musician
Happy to give a shout out here in my blog to my friend Roger Munch, a former student and an amazing artist. He’s just got his website up, and I’d encourage folks to check it out here. He does some great work…very organic and tapped into the natural world. I’m a fan, and maybe you’ll Read More …