No More Cold Lunch

Sack Lunch jammed for the last time today. We jammed over an hour and touched base on all our favorite SL tunes: Awesome-sauce, The Masterpiece, Summertime Rag, The New One, The Reggae Jam among others. We also explored a bit toward the end figuring out some pretty cool jazzy changes. Sack Lunch developed out of [...]

10,000 Lakes Festival; Pt. 2

I am making the transition back into the “real world” once again. It is part culture shock/part familiar but all the same, I’m back to where I was. For the past week I was lost in a world where anything is acceptable (except playing metal bands on the stereo). At 10K, I expounded on ideas about time, [...]

What a trip!

I returned to my neck of the woods last night around 12a, having spent a full fifteen hours in Gregg’s Honda Element. I will try to recollect my adventure to Tennessee and back but please note, my memory is somewhat sketchy from this week. So much happened!

WEDNESDAY
Lauren, Jamie, Amanda and I left Madison around 9a [...]

Do blind people hallucinate?

Author’s note: This blog is a very long account of my recent adventure to Six Flags this past weekend. I won’t make you read all of it if you don’t want to.

Friday afternoon I left with the vocal jazz and jazz band for Chicago, IL to perform for a music competition. We left around 1p [...]

A Letter to the Music Department

The G-E-T High School band and jazz band will be performing tomorrow night, marking my last high school band concert. This has sparked many thoughts about my high school band experience and my adventures through music. I learned how to play a hand-me down clarinet I bought from a guy down the street at a yard [...]

Let’s Wing It

Tonight, the robed choir performed with the UW-L concert choir for their final concert of the year. We were chosen because “we could represent the area with our choral sound,” or something like that. With such a willing director, our choir is a community that tends to decide things unanimously. When we were informed of [...]