Saying Goodbye to a Great Teacher
In February one of my teachers, Guru Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan, passed away at an age of 87. Kalanidhi was a great artist and...
Lyrics to our songs
First some great news! Our new album The Mountain King will be released on August 27. Once again AMP Concerts have graciously decided to...
Recap of the Year 2015
As the year comes to a close we would like to thank all the wonderful people we have had the opportunity to work with in 2015. Whenever...
Cartwheels in the parking lot
Last week we had family visiting. All other activities were put on hold for some delicious vacation time. My niece, who was one of our...
Musical Historical Fiction
I love reading historical fiction. I like the combination of exciting stories and learning something about our past found in well...
From Live Performance to Recording
We are working hard on finishing up the recordings for our next CD, “The Mountain King”. We are once again recording at Wall of Sound...
High Drama - Emotions and messages
Time flies! It has been a month since we did our show with AMP Concerts at The Outpost Performance Space at the end of May 2015. The...
Putting together a show
The Material Working out our songs is actually quite a long process. I usually like to group songs by a theme. I dig up ballads that have...
Adapting and arranging Medieval and Traditional Ballads
Working with medieval and traditional ballads and their melodies poses particular challenges. The melodies have often been transmitted in...
The Mountain King/Persephone
So, now I have written a blog post about each of the songs on our CD "The Wandering Ballad". Now we go back to Wall of Sound Studio, so...