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.

Going on Holiday

Today I am going on a little Holiday to Tk which is a bout an hour south of here. I am going to stay with Ann and we are going to a concert tomorrow. The show is by a group called Operatunity. They are singing songs from the 60’s and 70’s. I am reading Society’s [...]

On Playing for Older People

On Monday afternoon I do a good deed for the week. It’s so much more than that. If you want a term for it it is music therapy but I am not a music therapist, I am just a folksinger/pianist. At Fraser McDonald on Monday afternoons I sit at there really old, honky-tonk sounding piano [...]

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A Reminiscence

Perhaps I am a little too young to be writing like this. But… [whose cool website you’ll get to if you click on the link] says I should write my autobiography. I have had many requests from friends over the years to write it. But I don’t think I have much to say in that [...]

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