Sparks from the Fire

I’m excited to announce the beta of a new series of house concerts for Inspirational music right here in little ol’ NYC.

We’re calling it the Watchfire Music Listening Room. WFM artist, Julia Wade, will do 3 nights in the next 3 months celebrating and developing her new CD at Jenkins House Concerts just off of Central Park West.

Thursday, August 19th @ 7:30
Thursday, September 16th @ 7:30
Thursday, October 7th @ 7:30

Opening for her will be singer/songwriters Rebecca Minor in August, Megan Neale in September, and WFM artist and composer, Margaret Dorn, in October.

The purpose of the Watchfire Music Listening Room house concerts is to allow WFM artists to develop their music in front of a live audience. (more…)

Pardon my absence, but I’ve been up to my eyebrows in music.

Just this last weekend I had the great privilege to produce and direct a concert of Inspirational music for TMC Youth, an organization dedicated to opening up the horizons of spirituality for the youth of today.

In a 3-day weekend gathering of over 200 young people from mainly the East coast, but also from as far away as Africa and Europe, my task was to put together and spearhead an hour and a half of Inspirational music entertainment for their Saturday night blow-out.

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As Creative Director of Watchfire Music, probably my favorite perk of the job is working with young artists.  “Young” is a word used here with great latitude.

One of my young artists I’m working with is a man who just turned 50, two are in their late 20s and one in her very early 20s.  Perhaps “young” here means simply ‘early in their development’.

Teaching has always been for me a necessity of life.  I taught Sunday School for 25 years, midi classes for 22 years, and an audition class for actors at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater here in NYC for another 20.  The ability to pass along what I’ve learned in all these years is most precious to me.

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