2-Year Old Sings the Blues – 2
Is this not the coolest thing ever? This is a real honest to God, heartfelt, blues improv, by a 2-year old!
The value of listening and responding unselfconciously – this is what we learn to do at Music for People, a fantastic organization devoted to improvising music. The guidebook for the program is called Return […]
Bobby McFerrin Blows Me Away
Can you see how amazing it is what Bobby McFerrin is doing here? From his totally centered place in the middle of thousands of people, he is invites everybody to play with him. He doesn’t ask them if they can – he assumes they can – and of course they can! By sharing his own soulful music and […]
“Now I Get It – Music Works”
Everybody has music in them that wants to come out, and we can ALL make music together because music is a common language that everybody is born to speak. I swear it’s true!
This weekend I graduated from a 4-year training program with the most wonderful organization in the world (just saying), Music for People. […]
Do What You Want to Do!
You know how when you get home from a workshop you’re all hyped up and excited? Well, that’s me today, and I want to share!
It’s so important for us to do what we really want to do. When an opportunity arises to support us in doing what we really want to do, even if it’s a […]
Play is Serious Business!
How Businesses & Organizations Can Benefit from the Arts
“For those who would ask, ‘… and just how does art benefit my business?’, I would offer, ‘If your business has important, pioneering work to do, then develop artful capabilities in your associates just as well as technical skills, else you’ll work at half-strength at best, and risk losing all the benefit of […]
Drum Circle / Music Improv: 1st & 3rd Thursdays at 6:30
Here’s a little movie to give you a sense of some of the different things that have happened during our Thursday night jams. If you’re in the area, please come join us! Email me at nancy@salwen.net to get directions!
Rovena Talks About Her Progress
I’m going to share a little movie that shows one of my students and I talking over Skype. She is located in Western Canada and I am in New Hampshire, so this is a little bit of a miracle.
When Rovena started she had a hard time singing more than one or two notes at a time […]
Drum Circle / Music Improv – Twice Monthly
This is something we do: 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month we get together and improvise music together. We start Drum Circle style and then see where the magic takes us. You never know!
What’s really cool about this is that musicians, and people with absolutely NO musical experience can play together. The games and […]
10 Ways to Become a Musical Family
Most of us would agree music is good for us; it’s fun and important. It’s a great mood regulator. Music is comforting us when we’re down and cheers us on when we’re happy.
Music energizes us, motivating us to exercise, clean the house and buy things […]