Strings of Passion Takeaways from Martha
This is an archive post ~ originally published Feb. 2, 2017 and updated in 2019 My 10-week program about creative expression, “Strings of Passion,” just started and still open for 2019 registration! I find myself so moved by what the members share about... read more
Exploration #3 ~ Connecting to our Impulse (Strings of Passion)
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 6, 2017 and updated in 2019 “The strings of passion – these seven principles – they’re not steps, they’re strings like the strings of our instrument. And there are seven, just like there... read more
Blues As Creative Structure
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jun. 18, 2013 and updated in 2018 I recently had a mastermind session with music therapist, coach & harpist Trista Hill about my online program Blues Harp-Style, a 6-Week program on the Blues specifically for harp... read more
Dear Creative Adventurer … Discovering the Strings of Passion
Every week (or so) when I send out to the people on my email list, I begin each email with “Dear Creative Adventurer,” and that started a couple years ago. So … what is creative adventure – and why do I address you as a “Creative Adventurer’? I... read more
Can you make it? Live show & FREE Online Training
Whew! I escaped Boston just a few hours before the Bomb Cyclone hit – and I just got back from the NYC Chamber Music America conference which was all about the Jazz-Classical connection – which is at the heart of my own concerts, compositions and... read more
The Artistry of Giving
I want to tell you about a gift I once received and the impact it had on me – which had nothing to do with the gift itself and everything to do with the way it was given. But first – Harp Players – let me tell you that I’m doing a webinar this Sun.... read more
Play WITH the Game of Music
(Some of the content in this post was originally published 9/23/2015 and was updated 10/20/2017) We don’t even know that we’ve put them on ourselves. Creative handcuffs close slowly. Unnoticeable until they’re tight on our hands. They’re invisible. They’re inside... read more
I should LOWER my expectations???
Right now, students in my “Baroque Flamenco Beyond the Page” class are about to submit their Final (Beginning) Projects. I call them “Final (Beginning)” projects because I like students to realize that they’re not the end of their... read more
A Message from the Jamlog Collectomatic
My new 10-Week creativity program “Strings of Passion” opened on Tuesday and I got this message yesterday via the “Jamlog Collectomatic,” an anonymous sharing form I created that lets people share what’s happening with them without... read more
