About Mara Kelland

Mara Kelland is a licensed Simply Music Piano and Inner Musician Play A Story teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from AUT and a Certificate in Freelance Journalism from the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies. Through all her studies, music was her constant companion and is her first love.

What’s up?

Well it seems a long time since I wrote a blog post — a very long time. I have been busy teaching music and a million other things I don’t know where to start. I have begun writing a story. It’ been a long time since I put pen to paper to write a story. I don’t [...]

That’s too Easy!

Well, I saw the local library was having a competition. You can win tickets — two of them — to go see the national theatre company production of War Horse based on the novel by Michael Morprgo. To win, said the blurb, you had to email the website team and tell them who you would take to the show. [...]

Remembering Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger [1919–2014] is probably the greatest influence on my musical development as a folksinger. Collins has taught me how to sing but Seeger has taught me how to be [if that makes sense]. He was the first folksinger I ever heard — I was 5 — seems a long time ago now. I came home from school and [...]

What is Heaven like?

A few years ago I noticed a book, “Heaven Is For Real” was a bestseller on Audible. In it the father of a four-year-old boy had written down his son’s visions of Heaven. Apparently nobody is blind and nobody wears glasses. First let me say that heaven is definitely real. furthermore, I do not mean [...]

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