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.

Meerkat again

Well i am out here again to promote yet another meekest. At 8pm local time I will be live with songs and stuff. But there’s one problem I am supposedly in America. I’m not. I’m in New Zealand where the sun is shining and the weather is hot. Summer at last!

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I am writing this with dictation. It’s great I can just talk to my computer! I have new shoes and will travel. Yesterday I went to the library as I always do. I found some cool, interesting things. I just saw an interesting article which said you can enable a “hey Siri” function on your [...]

More Stuff

Today helped Leeanne set up a wordpress blog. Hopefully we’ll see something from her soon. There have been lots of fireworks around here. Guy Fawkes was on the 5th of this month and folks are still letting them off tonight. have been reading a lot of books. The most interesting one is called When the [...]

I’ll be concertising!

Well the technology has come at last. The musician can give a concert from wherever they please. I’ll be trying it out on Saturday morning at 9am local time here in New Zealand. Hell- you can watch the show for free or pay something i don’t care. Check it out on Concert Window See you [...]

Selfies At Work

So I was searching for something to read the other day. Went to Whitcouls to look through their best sellers intending to buy one online but they were all old ones — Hunger Games, Harry Potter…, Tuesdays with Morrie. So I went to Audible .com and started to look for new books by my faves or ones whose [...]

News Is Depressing

Well I haven’t blogged in a while but some folks in Canada and other places are telling me they’re out and they want more. So guys, here it is! Judy Collins who is my idle says she likes my cover of her song, Big Sur which I have put as an audio-only clip on YouTube. [...]

I’m Doing a Meerkast

Hello everybody! It’s great to be back writing to you all here on WordPress. I’d like to tell you about something special and cool! i am doing a meerkat broadcast [meerkast] tonight. It’s a lecture and some music about a great new improvisational programme out of Australia. To find out what it’s all about see [...]

My Favourite Songs

So i was reading this news story today that was a listing o the top 20 Leonard Cohen songs and people’s reminiscencs about them. Such is the inspiration for writing this post. i have included links to YouTube videos if available. 1 Send in the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim Judy Collins is the singer in [...]

Talking Braille

I wanna talk about Braille! It’s so cool that us blind folks can write in Braille on iThings and on computers with external displays. Wouldn’t it be cooler if we could write braille directly on such devices? Applehas already started the work by making braille built-in to their IOS platform. I dream of the day [...]

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