Guest Post From Rose Signet – Thoughts On Writing, Recording and Collaboration
The song began with a gentle and cyclical guitar part. A jangly loop.
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Grace McCullough Reads for Bosque Press ABQ inPrint #7
It was standing room only at Books on the Bosque yesterday for the launch of Bosque Press‘ ABQ inPrint #7. Grace was one of about 15 writers who read part
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Tisa Batchelder on Her New Album, Dream Girl
I think probably everybody has some sort of healing dream. And so as you journey through the different songs, maybe little, little parts of the dream are falling into place or coming true.
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“Let’s start something loud! Can you hear it?” – Cherishing the Music We Made with It’s a Girl
. . . standing backstage at our album release show and hearing the sold-out crowd stomping and chanting,
“It’s a Gril! It’s a Girl! It’s a Girl!”
Welles Park in Ballpoint Pen and Ink
This is the piece which I alluded to in previous blog post about practicing my greyscale skills.
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Jonas Friddle Discusses the Music and Memories behind his New Album, Jug Band Happy Hour (Interview)
“It’s funny to think of myself as a person who is old enough to reflect on some good times.” Jonas Friddle Jonas Friddle joins Getting to Know Trees to talk
Landing Softly
It’s been three years since I left my home of the previous 25 years and drove this Uhaul trailer into the great unknown. During that time, as I laid my
Slideshow – Celebrating Tradition Retreat 2022
Maria was one of the teachers at this year’s Celebrating Tradition Retreat in Spring Green, WI and I was lucky enough to be invited to tag along. What a rare
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Practicing Presence with Cyanotypes and the Robledo Mountains
This spring, I’ve been developing my skills with cyanotypes, printmaking with a sunlight-sensitive wash, which I had previously only dabbled with. The idea of working on a specific cyanotype piece
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Artist Statement for June 2022 Exhibition
I have been invited to show several pieces at the upcoming exhibition, Water Worlds, An Exhibition Exploring the Essence of Water (details follow). It’s the first time that I will
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“Did you draw those yourself?”
I’ve been looking into some of my limiting beliefs about both my ability to create art and about how we all create art in general. This memory – a mix
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Básquetbol en el Barrio – Theme Song for Basketball in the Barrio Camp
Every year I teach the Music Station at an incredible sports/art/music/community-building camp called Basketball in the Barrio, in Segundo Barrio, El Paso, Texas. We couldn’t hold the camp in 2020,
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KB’s Theme – song for my art teacher
I take visual art classes with the most amazing person; Kaye Buchman. Her art classes have moved online and it has been a highlight of the week to meet with
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Mending and Tending – a tune about taking care of ourselves
I was inspired to write this tune after a recent conversation with my friend Amanda Healen in which we were talking about my mending from some physical health challenges and
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Amigos de Basketball en el Barrio – New Song
We can’t have camp this year because of the pandemic. So, Coach Denisse Franco and I wrote a little song to share with the campers. Today, in Segundo Barrio, El
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Lager in a Pickle Jar – New Banjo Tune!
The title of this tune was inspired by a banjo video that Jonas Friddle recently published on Youtube. I didn’t have an empty pickle jar to put a lager in,
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Lunch Time! With Hibbard Elementary Room 208
I don’t know about you, but as the social distancing continues, I sure am missing eating lunch with my friends. That made me think of this song that I wrote
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Cheers to the Sound Engineers!
I spent the day working on “social distance sound”; both my own and others’. I run in a community of educators and teachers who, like many people in the country,
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Let’s Have a Pizza Party! – Songwriting with 2nd Grade
It’s Saturday and for many people that means pizza! Here’s a fun song to go along with your pizza party. Some second graders from Hibbard Elementary and I wrote this
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How to Find the Minor 2 (ii) Chord in a Major Scale – Video Lesson
During this challenging time of life I’ve been inspired by the Marquette Makers’ Project to keep busy with some creative work. I’ve made a lot of lessons like this, but
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Music Video for “Juice Box” – a new song for youth musicians
Thank you to Huxley and Theo for their help making this music video for my song, Juice Box! This song was written with young students like them in mind. I
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Recap: Family Harmonica at Winter Roots Festival
Wow! What great musicianship at the packed house for Family Harmonica Workshop at Saturday’s 2020 Winter Roots Folk Festival! Most of the attendees had never played the harmonica before and
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Snowy Day – A Song for Young Musicians – Video and Zine
Recently, it was a very snowy morning here in Marquette, MI. I was waiting for some of my students to have their lesson and I wrote this song. I made
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Evening Session at Fargo Skateboarding
[vimeo 387363157 w=640 h=360] Fargo Skateboarding January 2020 from Jason McInnes on Vimeo. It was a packed session tonight at Fargo Skateboarding. These photos are from later in the evening
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Teaching Station at Ore Dock Brewery
Originally posted on Facebook, Jan. 11, 2020 My teaching station this morning at Ore Dock Brewing. I have just a few lessons today, but I sure hope to do more
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Tackling Marquette Mountain – First Snowboarding Lesson
Life has been so full of upheaval that I feel like I haven’t really been able to take advantage of the natural wonders I’m living among. I made an “artist
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Join the Band! – Music with Jason at Ore Dock Brewing
Award-winning music educator, Jason McInnes, will be leading youth, family or adult music lessons this January at Ore Dock Brewing. Sign up for a 30 minute lesson in: * Guitar
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Stuff I Keep Track Of – Totals for 2019
I keep track of several things during the year. Here are the final numbers. A brief description of what these numbers mean and their relationship to last year follows. The
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Learn to Play Auld Lang Syne for the New Year!
Here is a copy of my newest zine, How to Play Auld Lang Syne on Your Harmonica! Auld Lang Syne is one of my very favorite songs. I actually wish
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Some of Jason’s Thoughts about the Grateful Dead
The summer/fall of 2019 has been a time of great upheaval in my life. I was glad to have a set of music together to help process these experiences. On
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