Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I was able to spend the last few days visiting with my new niece (3 weeks old!) and eating way too much food, as always.

One last reminder before we head into the New Year:
Lessons will resume the week of January 11th. 

That means that the kids will be back at school for one week and then lessons will start the week after. Although we have this extra week off of lessons, I do expect everyone to return to lessons with practice chart assignments ready to go. The next recital will be here before we know it (February 7th!).

If you have the next week off from work, which I hope most of you do so you can spend time with family, make sure to actually spend time with family.

My brain is already making lists and organizing information, wanting to start preparing for the next few months of work. But I have learned that there is such a thing as being too efficient and over prepared especially if it means cutting into spending time with the people who make our lives worth all the hard work we do year round.

Giving this advice is much easier said than done as I sit here contemplating work and writing to all of you as my husband glares at me because he knows what all the typing is about. So on that note, I'm off to spend time with my wonderful husband and our too cute for words cat.

As always, if you have any questions or any tuning emergencies, give me a call or send me an e-mail.

Enjoy your holiday and the people around you. See you in January!

Ceilidh Night

Tuesday's Ceilidh was so much fun. I've called the last group class of the year a Ceilidh for the past two years, but this year it truly felt like one. Request after request, the stage went from being completely full, to only a few playing, to little ones scrambling for their violins and joining in with excitement on pieces they knew, or pieces they just wanted to try, and with mouth fulls of food! The two person piano playing was awesome! Lots of improvising, teamwork and laughter. Thank you to my wonderful accompanists Alison & Drew who play with such heart and joy. It wouldn't have been the same without the two of you!

With no expectations, just a love of music and playing with one another, it was a great evening of music and there wasn't enough time to get in everyone's requests. It's a great moment when class is over but they still want to play!

Thanks for a wonderful evening and for your support in purchasing CD's of the group Celtic Shift I play with. Celtic Shift CD's will continue to be available in lesson for $20. 

Happy listening, 

Merry Christmas & 

Have a Wonderful New Year! 

See you all in 2016!

December News

Some news to wrap up December...

1. My niece, Dagny, was born on December 6th. We are so excited to welcome her to the family and can't wait for lots of visits over the holidays!

2. Celtic Shift, the fiddle group I play with, is releasing their second CD this week! I feel so fortunate to be able to play with and learn from such incredible musicians and you will be able to find and purchase CD's in lesson for $20!

3. Ceilidh Group Class is on Tuesday December 15th. This class will act as a typical Kitchen Party that you might attend out East which includes snacks, a variety of music from classical to fiddle to festive and anything we can think of in between, possibly some dancing, a lot of playing along and a lot of relaxing and enjoying music and the time we spend together. Sounds like the perfect way to finish off 2015! I hope to see everyone there!

4. Next week is the last week of lessons. There are no lessons past December 19th. Lessons will resume the week after the kids get back to school on January 11th. The first Group Class of 2016 is on January 12th.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!