Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Take a funky band on a pit stop in an unlikely venue and you have reason number 1,647 to support live music. We caught Wild Adriatic on an ordinary Wednesday night and felt like we had stumbled into Café au Go Go in 1968. The Outer Edge, a converted church, proved to be an able [...]
Want to know what gratitude sounds like? Listen to the proud cacophony of nearly 900 string instruments swelling through a Performing Arts Center. Hear the capacity applause. Want to know what it feels like? Run your fingers over hand-built and wheel-thrown pottery, touch a lead-dusted sketch pad, lift a piece of fabricated metal. Want to [...]
I wasn't going to write about our spontaneous trip to the Midwest Semi-Final round of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella last week. (Mostly because I've written about Fundamentally Sound so many times I'm worried I made the awkward transition from proud mom to crazy stalker fan that has to sneak past security to [...]
The trending video of Garth Brooks singing "the Dance" to cancer battler Teresa Shaw that hit 4.5 million views last night (an embarrassing number of which were me), speaks eloquently to the contagious power of music and the infinite strength of the human beings who both make and enjoy it. Music creates bonds in unlikely [...]
In the span of five days, my son and his a ccapella group sang from a rickety river deck in Wisconsin's North Woods, for surprised patrons of the Washington Inn, to his grandma and our next-door neighbors in the living room of our house, and in University Hospital's ICU ward. They sing for the love [...]