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NOW I'M A KITE is a New Mexico Music Awards finalist for Album of the Year

Well, this is sweet: NOW I'M A KITE is a finalist for album of the year at the New Mexico Music Awards!  It's also up for  best pop album and best song arrangement (for I Quit Blaming You). I…

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Live Videos

There are some new videos from my album release shows in Nashville and Santa Fe. I'm getting better with iMovie bit by bit!

"13 absorbing & catchy explorations...deserves repeated listening"

In his nice review of NOW I'M A KITE in American Highways writer John Apice aligns me with Melanie, Nanci Griffith, Carole King, Judee Sill, and Martha Wainwright--that's some weighty company, I'm honored!

 

ArtStorming Podcast Interview Out Now

My ArtStorming podcast interview with Lili Pierrepont is now available. Lili usually interviews artists, so she branched out with me and our conversation flew: she asked so many thoughtful, inspiring questions about my creative process, performing despite introversion, and my…

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Santa Fe Album Release

Tom Manche, Busy McCarroll, Chazz Frichtel, Waldo LaTowsky, John Rangel and I played all the songs from NOW I'M A KITE for a full and enthusiastic house at Paradiso 5/29/25, which warmed my heart since I've only lived in Santa…

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Honey Harris's The Big Show interview with me

I'm a big fan of Honey Harris's wonderfully eclectic The Big Show on KBAC/98.1 here in Santa Fe. Today I got to meet and be interviewed by her on-air--how fun is that? She is utterly cool and now I'm an…

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List Time for "Now I'm a Kite"

I'm a list girl and this is a list time as we prepare for the release of Now I'm a Kite later this spring. My pal Nancy Terzian is working on graphics, she has lent her talent to many of…

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I Have a Dream Concert with the Zia Singers

Yours truly has a 12-bar solo during the back half of this concert with the Zia Singers. In the front half we sing Mårten Jansson's Missa Popularis, which is gorgeous. 

Eddie the New Dog in the Studio

We adopted Eddie in September. Here he is in the studio looking dignified while we work on the new album. Except the brown nose from digging in the yard isn't so dignified.

Now I'm a Kite is Still Brewing

I've finished my lead vocals for the new album and we've started adding some backing vocals. Dana Cooper played an awesome show here then came over the next day to sing a harmony on “That's What You'd Say”.

Chazz Frichtel's Cool Feet

Here are the cool feet of cool bassist Chazz Frichtel as he played some very cool bass on tracks for my new album.

This is not a mouse

This is not a mouse being held up by super drummer Waldo LaTowsky. It's one of the many strange percussion instruments he brought to the studio when I told him I wanted weird percussion on the new album.