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!
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Everyone needs a signature move. Mine was a hair flip. I used to imitate the models on TV commercials as a little girl. They seemed to always be flipping their long hair away from their necks. When my Dad got a new camcorder in 1988, the year I turned six, one of the first things… Continue reading Party like it’s 1988!
It started as a poem.I was trying to process seeing, reading, and hearing about the events that took place at our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021. As I write this, I still am. I contemplated not sharing anything more about it this year. Who wants to be reminded of such an awful point in… Continue reading “On Her Steps” song inspired by January 6th, 2021 United States Capital events
