There were kids, dancers, military personnel, security guards, and athletes backstage at the AT&T Center, chaotically buzzing around while I did my “sound check” into a dry wireless mic. My sound was presumably live in some faraway control booth, where an invisible wizard checked my audio levels before the pre-game show began. A friendly crew […]
FOUR WEEKS FROM TODAY!!!! Four weeks from today, one of my dreams is going to come true. For real. A lot of people have asked me how I came to be singing the national anthem at a San Antonio Silver Stars game, so I wanted to blog about the story. First, I need to say […]
Are you a performer? Do you aspire to light up a stage, to delight and entertain? I am here today to give you the straight scoop about an unavoidable part of your early career: contests. What could be more fun? Amass an audience, assemble an array of performers, and let the cream rise to the […]
You may be aware that I recently competed to win a trip to perform at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and you might be curious about how things went at the finals. Maybe you know how it went, but you want to know how it WENT. True, I was not chosen as one of […]
The tortoise. The snail. The sloth. These days, these are the creatures with whom my artistic side identifies. Adagio. Andante. Lento. Largo. All terms that address deliberation, space, slowness. Also, intense presence….slow on purpose. This is my struggle. By design, as a musical mom, I must go slow. Because I have my dream—my husband and […]