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Songwriters’ Exchange with Jason & Jess – Replay from June 18, 2024

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Jess Baldissero is not only a good friend, she is one of my favorite songwriters. I was honored that she sat with me earlier in the week to discuss the discoveries and accidents of the creative process. We shared some laughs, talked about good times and hard times and we each played a few songs.     Audio and Video Audio Only Getting to Know Trees knowingtrees.com · Songwriters' Exchange with Jason McInnes and Jess Baldissero Three tracks from The Hermit, my debut solo album are streaming during the pre-order period. The full album will be released June 28, 2024 on Bandcamp. http://joybird.bandcamp.comPick up Jess’s music, featuring her band Joybird, at Bandcamp also. 

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Community Music at Chispas Farm – June 25

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Join our wonderful neighbors Jason and Maria for an afternoon of community-supported music making. All music experience levels, especially beginners, are welcome. Grab your guitars, fiddles, whistles, banjos, trumpets, drums or anything else and join us in the beautiful woodsy at Chispas Farm on June 25! Jason is an educator, musician and visual artist. You can find him at Getting to Know Trees: Creative Inquires with Jason McInnes. knowingtrees.com Stay tuned for upcoming Farmily Music dates and times with Maria. No experience encouraged. All ages. Accessibility: The property has paths covered in wood chips, pretty flat, and very spread out. Once you arrive at the farm, you can park along the Eastside fence, enter through the gate, and make your way to the woods on the northwest corner of the property.   🍆🍅🌶🍆🍅🌶🍆🍅🌶🍆🍅🌶🍆🍅🌶🍆🍅   Únase a los vecinos Jason y María para una tarde de música apoyada por la comunidad. Todos los niveles de experiencia músical, especialmente los principiantes, son bienvenidos. ¡Traigan sus guitarras, violines, silbatos, banjos, trompetas, tambores o cualquier otra cosa y únete a nosotros en la zona bonita boscosa en Chispas Farm el 25 de junio! Jason es un maestro, músico y artista visual. Encontrarlo a knowingtrees.com. Estén atentos a las próximas fechas y horarios de Farmily Music con María. Música comunitaria en la recogida de CSA. No se necesita ninguna experiencia. Todas las edades. Accesibilidad: la propiedad tiene caminos cubiertos de virutas de madera, en su mayor parte planos. Se puede estacionar al lado este de la cerca y entrar por la verja.  

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The Hermit – June 28 Release Day

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“The Hermit chronicles a journey. These instrumentals, played on acoustic guitar, banjo and other acoustic instruments, combined with poetry and accompanying artwork expresses a stepping away from an established, but unstable and consumptive, life path onto the ultimately more stable, yet unknowable trail of accepted impermanence.” Read more about the album and listen to preview tracks now at jasonmcinnes.bandcamp.com.    

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Music Crew Begins June 26 – Runs Through August 25

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Working Together to Cultivate Music Knowledge & Expression A mix of in-person music ensemble classes and private lessons opportunities, located in Albuquerque, NM.In Music Crew we’ll focus on working together to play as a band!. All instrumentalist and vocalists are welcome to join. Musicians from all experience levels are encouraged. Both beginning and experienced musicians/singers will find value in balancing collective work and individual expression. More about Music Crew and Registration Options

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Virtual Songwriter’s Exchange with Jess and Jason

Join Jess and Jason for an intrepid discussion about the accidents, discoveries, breaking apart and gluing together involved in the creative process and songwriting in particular. Registration is free, but is required.Register at https://www.knowingtrees.com/storeYou’ll receive an email with the Zoom link for the discussion. Find Jess’ music at https://joybirdmusic.bandcamp.com/ Find Jason’s music at https://jasonmcinnes.bandcamp.com/

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Listening Wide-Eyed: Limited-Sight Contour Drawings of Musical Instruments for Sale

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Today, I am honored and humbled to offer for sale pieces from my Listening Wide-Eyed: Limited-Sight Contour Drawings of Musical Instruments series. Between now and early July 10, 2022 you can purchase a piece of one-of-a-kind artwork made specifically for you or a loved one. Jump to the order form. The Listening Wide-Eyed series is an outgrowth of my visual art, musical and mindfulness practices. Each one-of-a-kind piece from Listening Wide-Eyed is created through a limited-sight process, where I make a drawing on a sheet of bristol board without taking my eyes off the subject. I don’t look at the board until I am done drawing. Within the messiness, the structural knowledge and spiritual essence of each instruments expands.  Each drawing is a made-to-order, one-of-a-kind piece of visual art. They are created with wax pencil and bristol board. Each purchaser is invited to customize their piece, in regards to which instrument, the use of color and matting. There are also options specific to gifting one of these drawings to a loved one. This process started as a way to strengthen my visual record abilities. As my practice bloomed, this limited goal fell away and the drawing practice engendered more connections between the parts and the whole of both the instruments and myself. How do we move? Where are we sturdy? Where are we delicate? How do those and other qualities affect our presentation to and relationships with others?  Considering these questions allowed me to hold and play each instrument in a more open, inviting way.  We see and hear ourselves, and others, every day. I hope having these drawings in our living space, practice room, or at a family dining table prompt us to notice moments when we are making assumptions about what we know about both ourselves and others. I hope that they can act as a guide to remain open, curious and to foster connections in musical spaces and all other relationships. This round of sales does end on July 10, 2022. Order form for Listening Wide-Eyed: Limited-Sight Contour Drawings of Musical Instruments

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The Sticker Method: Creating a Habit of Practice

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This fall I published my latest zine, The Sticker Method: Creating a Habit of Practice (available in the store). This is a method for taking a lot of the stress that can come with being a learner/do-er out of our lives. I’ve developed the method over my lifetime as both a teacher and a student I am a user of The Sticker Method and one of my favorite aspects of it is that the method can be used for anything. If you’ve heard my music, seen my drawings, watched my skateboard videos, or if we’ve talked about developing a habit of going to the gym, then you’ve seen The Sticker Method in action. What are you going to practice? I’d love to know. 

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