Well, I'll be damned! Cabaret singer and songwriter extraordinaire Amanda McBroom was here and I missed her, again. Unfortunately it was last year. McBroom wrote The Rose for Bette Middler and has been covered by Judy Collins (where I first heard of her) and others. As a performer she has covered songs by Jacques Brel [...]
Well everybody I am back with a vengeance. Thanks to Daniel over at Red Sweater software who make Mars Edit, the application I use on my Mac to craft these blogs. I am so glad to be back writing you little pieces of my life and music again. I have some news: K.B. has just [...]
Folk Music is the music of the people open to interpretation. Classical music - supposedly serious music - is where the composers write down exactly what to play and they mean it. I have my feet in two camps - I am a folk musician and attempting to be a classical one. Simply Music curriculum [...]
I love the music of the early 20th Century French composers, Debussy, Poulenc etc. So when I heard there was a concert by New Zealand's premiere chamber choir, Voices, >/a> I jumped at the chance to go. They had done a concert here in Auckland a few weeks ago - a sell out performance commemorating [...]
Well I am back here on this brand new, awesome website to bring you my ramblings again. Special thanks to Wes and Brad at G W Designs for the great new look! I have been busy the past few months, teaching and playing the piano but hope to get back in to regular blogging again. [...]
so I want to find the most accessible, versatile camera set up I can. I have two cameras — a GoPro and a samsung one that I forget the specs on. I also have my iPhone. This week I am going to experiment with the GoPro iPhone combination as a totally blind person. I was very excited [...]
I have just got a new computer, another Mac from Apple. I spent the past few days setting it up. This is run of the mill stuff — I migrated all my content over from my old Mac. But there were some messages that VoiceOver, the built-in screenreader that comes with Mac OS wouldn’t read. This post [...]
I want to share with you all about my Geographical to Sydney. What I didn’t tell you was I was going to see a friend and was abandoned to my own devices by friend for most of the week I was gone. On Sunday April 2, I walked a mile up the Pacific Highway to [...]
Judy Collins has made what is essentially a rock record with a guy half her age named Ari Hest. It’s kind of like those records she made in the 1970’s and 80’s but better — comes with maturity I guess. Silver Skies Blue is the result of a year’s writing collaboration between Hest and Collins. It’s also [...]
This one’s about why a blind woman would want an action camera — indeed why a blind woman would want a camera at all. The short answer is I want one for the same reasons anyone else wants one — to preserve memories and be a to share them with other people who can see obviously. I thought the [...]