The last two weekends have been a flurry of action as the workshop production of Couragewas underway, first at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in Adam’s Morgan and then in the blackbox at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
It was a trippy way to reenter the performance scene, and I had a blast working with the band, jamming [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mandolin’
Courage – Live Recordings
Posted in music, tagged courage, mandolin, music, singing on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Baking Something New
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music, singing on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hey all,
So I dropped off the face of the blogging earth, huh? Sorry to those who were checking this page out with any regularity. But it makes me laugh a little when I look at the date of my last post — October 29, 2008 — because just a week later I learned I had [...]
Echoes
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a billion years since I last posted, and so for all six of you paying attention, I apologize.
I feel I have a good excuse, though: We’re buying a house. I have been advised it is not all like giving birth. You do not forget the agony of delivery the moment your eyes rest [...]
Graves Mounatin Breakdown
Posted in music, tagged bluegrass, festival, graves mountain, mandolin, music, writing on June 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I turn to my friend in the lawn chair beside me, give him a blissed-out smile that is equal parts sunburn and warm wine, and with my generally dormant mountain accent turned up to thick and dripping, sigh, “Lord, I love the smell of honeysuckle on the night air.”
And, in agreement, the band on stage [...]
Play in May
Posted in music, tagged cindy, crossfit, mandolin, primal-fitness on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sincerest apologies for the absence of posts in April. I assure you, I spent the time well. My husband and I finally made good on our Christmas presents to each other and signed up for CrossFit Boot Camp with Primal Fitness. More significantly, we completed Boot Camp. I tapped out having done 13 rounds of [...]
Sometimes all you gotta do is ask.
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music, song rec, the fox hunt on January 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my quest to learn the mandolin, I’ve been playing my favorite bluegrassy, folksy, old-school country bands on the stereo, and trying to ferret out the chords along with the music.
Johnny Cash (of course), Hackensaw Boys (my home-mountain band), Nickel Creek, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, Greg Brown, Gram Parsons and my newest addiction: [...]
Mando-Madness
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music, song rec on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After several months of learning on my $30 eBay special which has served me well as an intro instrument, I took the plunge: I bought myself a shiny new mandolin:
It’s an Ibanez M510. Low on price in the grand scheme of things, but good parts and better for the sum of them.
I would like to [...]
G, C and D
Posted in music, tagged mandolin, music on November 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
About 13 years ago, I plunked out “Desperado” by The Eagles on my mom’s piano until I could play it straight through with no stops, starts and obvious gaffs. And that’s where my musical instrumentation career ended.
Singing? Sure. That was no problem…been doing that since I was old enough to gather I was any good [...]
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