![]() I began writing a lot in high school, not even really songs, just poems and short stories and when I moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming at 24, I linked up with a few other musicians and began getting more serious about writing full songs or at least attempting to finish them. Much like my dog Bernie did after a pretty difficult breakup, music gave me a reason to go on, a purpose, and a way to feel and connect on a different plane. I also never really felt like I fit in or belonged, even at times even in my own family, but music gave me a sense of belonging on this planet, it ended up saving my life in a lot of ways, so I focused my entire existence around it. Everything else, math, science, social studies-I just sort of tuned out and drifted, which was why I almost failed out of high school. Lessons were rigid for me and I wasn’t a great student in general unless it was something that excited me, then I could do it. They enrolled me in piano for 10 years but It wasn’t until I found my mom’s guitar in the attic that I quit lessons and decided to continue my music education on my own terms. Anything from Yoyo Ma to Django Reinhart. ![]() I can vividly remember him blasting trumpet solos that would ultimately drive my mom nuts, she’d be making dinner and echoing through the house he’d sometimes play these booming, dramatic, “jarring” as my mom would say, but powerful none the less, scores and albums and concertos. They both were “music people”, my mom was always singing and my dad was big into jazz and blues. ![]() I grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, a tiny seaside town north of Boston, the youngest of three girls, with two loving, open-minded parents that luckily really influenced and encouraged self-exploration and even though I didn’t want to pursue any sort of conventional, traditional education, they really sort of hung on there while I figured it out. What is your upbringing? How did you discover music? How did you start to write music? ![]()
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