How cool is this? Jonas asked me to make a guest post for Banjo After Dark!

In the previous post I wrote a about recording recording Little Birdie with puja and maria.  That got me thinking about Frank Hamilton who taught me that song when I went to visit him in 2010.

Eventually, something inside me clicked and I thought, “Oh. The kids don’t have school. We should go visit Ella!”

When I think of the ways that I’ve grown, I know I couldn’t a’ made it alone.I owe a lot to the …

Jess Baldissero is not only a good friend, she is one of my favorite songwriters. I was honored that she sat with …

Musical Dreaming – it’s a practice that I took part in, but had never really considered until some great chats with my …

. . . 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!”

I stepped up to the paper and realized, almost immediately, that I did not have control of the necessary skills to complete the piece as I wanted. I could understand the process intellectually, but it wasn’t going to come out of my pen without more practice.

It’s been three years since I left my home of the previous 25 years and drove this Uhaul trailer into the great …

I have been invited to show several pieces at the upcoming exhibition, Water Worlds, An Exhibition Exploring the Essence of Water (details …

I’ve been looking into some of my limiting beliefs about both my ability to create art and about how we all create …

I spent the day working on “social distance sound”; both my own and others’. I run in a community of educators and …

Why do you play video games? Make music? Draw pictures? Is it Skill and Achievement? Social? Money? Role playing? Reflecting on a recent episode of Imaginary Worlds.

For someone who is relatively new at playing music, learning a new tune, or a bunch of new tunes can be overwhelming. …