The Summerglen Files

Greetings! Lately here at Summerglen, we’ve been working on 2 big summer projects: Trombone Ensembles for students, and our original CD (tentatively titled It All Started in the Middle of the Road). Both the students and our new material are truckin’ right along, and we’ve created Facebook pages for each of them, [...]

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Happy Monday, Summerglen friends!
We’ve been insanely busy over here at the ‘glen. I’ve been working hard on setting up another after-school elementary band and some creativity workshops for businesspeople, and Andrew has been out playing solo percussion shows! (Pics of his latest show will be up within the next couple of days!)

But the [...]

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It has truly been the year of the book here at Summerglen Music. Back in June, Christina published her Women Embracing Creativity book, and now Andrew has a book of his own as well–Building Grooves: A Beginner’s Guide to Drumset Control and Coordination!

Andrew’s proof copy came in the mail today, and it looks [...]

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Greetings! Today is the 2nd year anniversary of our wonderful business, Summerglen Music. A lot has happened in the last two years–big time musical progress, lots of marketing, a book, and tons of learning new things. To celebrate this milestone, I did something good for my business: I went to a networking [...]

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The January issue of the Summerglen Times is hot off the presses! In this month’s issue, we tackle some of the most common mistakes people make in practice, and introduce our new column, the Creativity Corner.
Mistakes can be our best teachers; when we experience something that doesn’t work, it often makes it much easier [...]

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Our newest issue of The Summerglen Times is hot off the presses!
With Thanksgiving coming up, we’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude, especially in terms of how it relates to young musicians. When you’re learning to play an instrument, it often can be easy to focus on the negative–all the bad auditions [...]

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I’ve just uploaded some new videos of the Summerglen Duo on our sounds page. These videos are samples from a couple of our All Around Raleigh shows, so if you’re interested, please check them out!
All these videos were recorded on a cheap digital camera in noisy public places (mostly outdoors), and have gone through [...]

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Summerglen Music is officially one year old today! Yay!
I started Summerglen last year after I had had absolutely enough of teaching music in the public schools. Society really mistreats and mistrusts teachers, and I was no exception. After five years of working in a fairly large elementary school, I was [...]

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Last month, the fine folks at Skirt! Magazine dropped by Summerglen to interview me for their June issue, which they were dedicating to female musicians. Faith Dwight, the interviewer, and Beth Riley, the photographer, were really cool people, and the interview had the feel of “hanging out and enjoying a coffee with the girls”. [...]

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For a percussionist especially, soundproofing a home studio can be an ongoing saga–and Andrew’s drumset studio here at Summerglen is no exception. Generally, the sound quality in the studio is good, but the house in general doesn’t have much insulation, which leads to lots of sound bleeding outside when Andrew plays. (Our place [...]

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