Added 27 Apr, 9:25am<\/em>
\nLast night I gapped one of the coolest ideas from her talk. (I stopped taking notes once she started singing – it was just too engaging.) She talked about Pete Seeger coming down to help with the Movement in the 60’s and helping her change her vision of what being a “musician” was\/could be. Instead of focussing on trying to “get a hit” and “make it big”, he talked about a musician as having a job like a teacher or plumber or grocer, where if you get up each morning and get on with it you can make it work. You may not make millions, but you can make it work. I really like that idea, and probably should share it with my Roots Music students.<\/p>\n

I know that I’ve been trapped in that kind of thinking in the past, which is weird since I have no aspirations to great fame or fortune. Performing as part of the open mic nights this semester, though, as been really liberating and fun, and has done a lot to make music a more active event in my life instead of just listening endlessly and never making.<\/p>\n