Music

SOS-SOA-Save Our Schools-Save Our Arts

photo c/o Sarah Buttenweiser. Read her always wonderful, insightful and inspiring blog, “Standing in the Shadows.” Time for Spring, time for budget cuts. Time for Big Ideas. As I posted…

Music

Speak Up for the Arts and Music in our Schools, part 1

[From the Jackson Street School Music Assembly 2012]A friend just sent me a copy of the proposed budget cuts for the Northampton school districts. I went through them all, and…

Music

Practicing it Up in the Garden

My niece, with her band, has recorded her first single, which she wrote, sings lead on and plays bass on. It’s a rocking song called “Speak Up!” and my kids…

Nields

Suzuki

August

Mid-August, I am deep in edits and rewrites of How to Be an Adult, which I hope to publish as an ebook sometime this fall. Today, though, I am working…

Music

Tangled Up In Blue

“I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could sit simply in that room again Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I’d give it all…

Music

Good Times Are Here

Second in a series about the songs on our forthcoming album The Full Catastrophe I wrote “Good Times Are Here” in mid-winter 2008, soon after Barack Obama had won the…