Fall Music Recital 2008



Fourteen of my students participated in the Fall Music Recital held October 26, 2008 at the First Presbyterian Church in Malden. Reverend Paul Williams was our announcer and the students performed classical, sacred, pop and Christmas music to an audience of approximately 100. Picture are front row, left to right:
Alexis Campbell, guitar, Gracie Thomas, piano, Evin Smith, piano, Bradley Stallings, guitar, and Makayla Turner, piano. Back row, left to right: Rickie Smith, piano, Ben Owens, piano, Wade Slaughter, guitar, Sam Turner, piano, Shelby Martin, piano, Daniel Smith, piano, Ally Hoehn, piano, Alison Davis, piano and Cassie Armstrong, guitar. These students are from Malden, Bernie, Campbell, Gideon and Risco. Way to go guys-you did an outstanding job!!

 


Meet My Guitar Students

Jeremy Stark



    

Jerra Ingle                                    Bradley Stallings

                 
           

Wade Slaughter                 Logan Freeman

                          

Cassie Armstrong                             Alison Davis 
  


      
 
Sam Turner                               Logan Nichols

 

     

Chase Stratton                      Kyle Lemarr

       A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.  Herm Albright
    

I really can't think of many things I'd rather be doing than playing


My Alvarez-the guitar I 
pick up first every time I play

  
Logan Nichols helping me out at the First Presbyterian Church, Malden


   
Al Mewhirter and me during one of our frequent performances at the First Presbyterian in Malden




Three of my acoustic guitars



My Epiphone Les Paul Special Edition Electric



Annie Belle & Bobby



Maestro the Music Cat



Boomer

Ladies Love Outlaws:
Waylon Jennings

This is my daughter Hannah, age 12 when this picture was taken, posing backstage with Waylon Jennings in Las Vegas, NV in 2000.



I took the photo above in 2001 in Albuquerque, NM backstage prior to a Waylon Jennings concert; my husband and I had been acquainted with Waylon and his band for over 25 years and still keep in touch with some of his former band members.






Pictured below is Reggie Young, probably regarded as one of the best guitarists in the world. Remember the opening guitar lick on Dobie Gray's song "Drift Away"? That was Reggie who has played with practically everyone including Elvis. He was part of Waylon's band during his last tours. Reggie is married to Waylon's former fiddle player, Jenny Lynn Hollowell. We attended their beautiful wedding in Franklin, TN in 2004.


This is Rance Wasson, guitarist and backup singer for Waylon. He and his wife Marie live near Nashville. We've known Rance and Marie since we all lived in Tulsa in the 1980's.

Music Quotes 
from the
Famous & Not So Famous



"The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything but it can be elusive." Les Paul

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism.......bordering on insanity." Richard Thompson

"I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble." Stevie Ray Vaughn

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." John Erskine

"Any problem you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't really a problem." Anonymous

"A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else." Willie Dixon

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." Pat Conroy

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am." Joan Jett

"I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there." Howard Roberts

"Rock and Roll is a feeling." Eddie Van Halen

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!" J. K Rowling

"The world is full of amazing guitar players.....it's a humbling experience." Mark Knopfler

"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice." Andre Segovia

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music." George Eliot

"If it has more than 3 chords, it's jazz." Lou Reed

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itslef, incredible and inconceivable." Aaron Copeland

"Hell is full of amateur musicians." George Bernard Shaw

"It occured to me by intuition and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery (the Theory of Relativity) was the result of musical perception." Albert Einstein

"God gave us music that we might pray without words." Anonymous

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories." Oscar Wilde

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music." Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out that they were impossible." Ronnie Scott, jazz guitarist

"With some musicians, you can hear the note almost before they hit it." Carlos Santana

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings." Ed Gardner

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule." Samuel Butler

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." Johann Sebastian Bach