DAY 9 Friday, April 10th, 1998 (11:00pm) PASSAU, GERMANY: BEST WESTERN HOTEL AM FERNSEHTURM Today we went to Germany. My pen’s running out! We’re in Passau Germany and I am living with Sue in room 313. We stopped at a resting spot and had lunch. I got everyone crown hats and we looked like queens.… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 9: Passau, Germany 1998
DAY 8 Thursday, April 9th, 1998 (12:00pm) “Einbahn" (one way) is all over! VIENNA, AUSTRIA: HOTEL HARMONIE Today we didn’t have a concert so Lacy, Linda, her mom Ms. D., Sue, Kathy and I all took the subway to shop. It took us about an hour to get change for the ticket and find out… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 8: Vienna Austria 1998
DAY 6 Tuesday, April 7th, 1998 (10:50pm) VIENNA, AUSTRIA: HOTEL HARMONIE Today we left for Austria and went through the check point with our passports. An official man came on our bus and personally checked each one of our passports. He smelled good and not like many other men here smell like. The scenery is… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 6 & 7: Bratislava, Slovakia, Gumpoldskirchen & Vienna, Austria 1998
DAY 5 Monday, April 6th, 1998 (10:45pm) CESKY KRUMLOV, CZECH REPUBLIC: HOTEL RUZE Today we left Prague and are now at Cesky Krumlov and are staying at the Hotel Ruze We all slept on the five hour bus ride and are getting along better. The hotel is 4 out of 5 stars and we are… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 5: Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic 1998
DAY 3 Saturday, April 4th, 1998 (late at night) PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: HOTEL BELVEDERE (In honor of St. Mary) Today we went to a monastery and sang Ave Maria, our first song here. It was very moving and I got a postcard of it. The treasures in the top of the monastery had a picture… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 3 & 4: Prague, Czech Republic 1998
DAY 1 Thursday, April 2nd, 1998 (BUS FROM MADISON TO O’HARE AIRPORT) We just left. The grass is very green outside. I’m sitting here on the bus and don’t know exactly how I feel. I feel calm and am ready to take everything in. In a way I feel like I’m going on a field… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 1 & 2: Madison to O’Hare to Prague, Czech Republic 1998
The inspiration for this post is a choir journal I kept between 1997-1998, the school year I went to Europe to sing with my high school choir. I found it in my basement well over a year ago. After reading it, I was inspired to include it in my micro-museum here inside the Annie Lynn… Continue reading America the Beautiful, Singing with My all Girls Choir: Voices & Our 1998 Europe Tour
We were on our way home from the concert we just saw together. It was late, and Dad was driving the back roads in the dark. (This was the same night I wrote about in Lessons in the "Slip Note" and Other Concert Goings With My Dad) He shared how his childhood buddy Chuck had… Continue reading From Reel-to-Reel: Digitizing My Dad’s 1967 Hamilton Tableau Band Recording
Do you remember the first movie you ever saw in the theatre? What was it? "It's a dinglehopper"I saw Disney's The Little Mermaid in 1989 when it first came out. I remember being completely memorized by the film, the music, all the colorful characters and especially the song "Under the Sea"! How happy and fun, and exciting… Continue reading Original 1989 Disney’s The Little Mermaid VHS & Cassette Tape Inspire Animated “Part Of Your World” Ukulele Cover Song
My Dad has been a huge influence along my music journey. I once wrote about it in this:Â How going back to my roots led to my first song Last weekend we got together to go through a list of songs we selected to try and learn. Did I ever mention my Dad has a music… Continue reading I started playing banjo with my Dad!
