I am doing some traveling over the holidays, and I know many other people are. I wish you all safe and happy travels! If you are staying put, stay warm 🙂
I finished up the Christmas gig season with something a little bit different. It was a CD release party at a church in Chesterfield. The style of music isn’t really my thing, kind of contemporary Christian, but Jon and the band knew their stuff and sounded great. I took home an autographed copy of the CD (by Jon Garrett, entitled “To Find Love There.” ) Too bad I wasn’t actually playing on the CD! Anyway, this was a few days ago, and I am mainly writing about it because I woke up this morning with one of the tunes in my head…
I did make it through an entire Christmas season without performing “Sleigh Ride.” This is probably the first time in 12 to 14 years that has happened. I actually consider this a negative thing, but there’s always next year!
The new year will bring big plans and (hopefully) happenings. I do have some projects planned (chamber music concert, perhaps a solo/duo recital, possible CD more for fun than profit…) in addition to the usual teaching, Suzuki pedagogy class (another semester) and playing.
This has been a sad year for me and my family. My grandfather passed away almost a year ago, and my boyfriend’s sister’s husband passed away in September. The older I get, the more I realize, that’s how life is: sad things happen, and yet time just keeps ticking, and you have to keep doing what you are doing. I do hope, however, that the next year is better overall…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, my dear readers!