UPDATE: The Session at Bagitos has been cancelled in hopes to keep people safe from Covid-19. Stay healthy everyone! This weekend, we will not only be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but we’ll also be celebrating the end of era – the Saturday session at Bagitos in Montpelier. Saturday, March 14 from 2-5pm will be the … More The end of an era and the beginning of a new one
Happy birthday Mom. Today you would have been 74 years old and wearing purple, according to your favorite poem. I wanted to take the time, on your birthday, to let you know just how much influence you had on me when it comes to music. Though you weren’t a musician yourself, you introduced me to … More An open letter to my late mom, about music
Though I keep learning new things on my fiddle, the one thing that is the hardest thing to do while playing, is smile. But smiling can be the difference between a good performance and a great one. … More Smile, it’s contagious
Today is a very sad day. In the town I live in, a 3-year-old boy named Parker Berry passed away after being lost at daycare and found drowned in a local brook. Though I don’t know the whole story or the little boy, this hits close to home as it happened in my little town. … More Making music to comfort the dead
Today would have been my mother’s 71st birthday. She passed 4 years ago and not a day goes by that I don’t miss her. Though she never played any instruments, I remember my childhood being filled with music. She’d listen to broadway shows, the Carpenters, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, the Moody Blues and she absolutely … More Ode to my mom
Recently I brought my bow in to be re-haired and the violin shop kindly lent me a bow of similar value to use for the week until I got mine back. If you play the fiddle you know what a difference a bow can make. Using a different bow feels so foreign. It’s like getting … More Don’t judge a girl by her bow
by Katrina VanTyne I love watching the Olympics. It doesn’t matter who wins the gold, it always brings tears to my eyes when an athlete gets awarded their medal on the podium. Though I can’t claim to be anything close to an Olympic athlete (though I did mountain bike race in my youth), I can … More How practicing is like training for the olympics
I believe music is magical. It can improve your health, your mood, your life. It can express deep emotions. It can make you feel good playing it and it can make someone else feel good listening to it. But can it make beer taste good? We think so. This week we had the opportunity to … More Tunes in The Tap Room
If your New Year’s resolution includes taking better care of your health, one way to stick to it is to play more music. I’m no doctor, and I don’t play one on TV, but research shows there are health benefits to being a musician. And don’t worry, you don’t have to be a professional to reap … More 6 Ways playing music is good for your health
Imagine you’re asked to play the processional tune for a friend’s wedding. You’re honored and excited to do it. You diligently spend an entire week playing only that tune over and over until every note is perfect. After all, this is the most important ceremony of their lives. The wedding day arrives and you play a couple … More Lessons learned
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