The Summerglen Files

Music, Creativity, and Everyday Life at Summerglen Music in Raleigh, NC

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How Music Relates to Cooking

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s a video from chef Todd Mohr, the founder of catering company Savor Hospitality in Cary. The video gives you a taste of his video blog, Cooking Coarse, which teaches you to cook without recipes! Fluency is a big part of music and cooking. In music, if you can’t read or improvise fluently, you’ll end [...]

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Change Your Socks, Change the World

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the reasons we Summergleners do what we do is because we love helping people. It feels good to give back to the community with our music, and to empower people to play through positive music lessons and clinics. Nowadays, though, we’ve added a new good cause to our repertoire…SOCKS! The Sierra Club Sock-A-Thon [...]

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Tags: musical collaboration

Passing Through Plymouth, Relaxing at Hatteras

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Even when you do something you enjoy for a living, you can get burned out if you don’t take breaks. So, this past weekend we took a break…and drove to the Outer Banks! It was a 4-1/2 hour drive each way, but we made the trip last even longer by stopping to check out this [...]

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Tags: staying healthy

Obama in the Triangle!

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Andrew and I (and quite possibly Velvet the cat) really dig Barack Obama, so we’re very excited to have him in North Carolina! Here’s an entertaining rundown of Obama’s visit with the UNC Basketball Team. I wonder if Mr. Obama would like to try his hand at trombone or percussion… Maybe on his next visit, [...]

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