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!
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
In the summer of 2017 my folks moved out of my childhood home in Madison, Wisconsin. I had lived there since I was four up until I left for college in Minnesota where I studied music, theatre and dance, and performed in the Twin Cities area. View: Performing Pictures Since 2000, I had been traveling… Continue reading How going back to my roots led to my first song
I created a virtual online space called the "Annie Lynn Club," this website, that started as just a blog in 2018. Every Monday night after I gave my boys a bath I'd sit down and reminisce, and write stories about my childhood. Feeling nostalgic felt like an escape from the day-to-day challenges of being a… Continue reading How the Annie Lynn Club started
In the spring of 2018 I decided I wanted to be able to play the songs I was writing. So the next step I took was to learn to play guitar. The first thing I did was borrow my husband’s grandpa’s old guitar he had left him. Then I found a couple of old beginner… Continue reading How I learned to play guitar from an old cassette tape
