About

Musician, music educator, ethno/musicologist, collector and music appreciator extraordinaire. I love everything from Renaissance vocal music, Bollywood and afrobeat to heavy metal, 1950s schlock pop and Kylie Minogue. I have a master's degree in Ethnomusicology from The University of Texas at Austin and undergrad degrees in Music History and History from the University of Michigan. I wrote my master's thesis on Gospel Brunch in Austin, Texas and the commercialization of gospel music.

I am a vocalist and also play the guitar and the piano. I have played the Chinese ruan (sounds sort of like a classical guitar but looks like a short necked banjo), the viola, the trumpet and the Brazilian cavaquinho. I've sung for a band that opened for the Neville Brothers, sung in Chartres Cathedral twice, and at Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco.

I sing, play the ukulele, the glockenspiel and the bass guitar with my band Leopard Print Tank Top and sing alto in the San Francisco Lyric Chorus.

EMAIL ME at alwaysmoretohear[at]gmail.com

The purpose of this blog is to:

- share albums, concerts and my current musical obsessions
- educate

- take suggestions and new recommendations (tell me about some good stuff you've been listening to!)
- support, expose and plug musicians
- make musical connections
- ask questions, get comments and feedback
- invite you to laugh, cry, get goosebumps and dance with me!

My friends are rad:

Thanks to Jemal Diamond over at the Jemal Show for the kick-ass Always More to Hear logo.

Thank you to photographer Audra Marie Dewitt for the lovely portrait up top there.

Thank you's also go out to Anna Gazdowicz and Dina Maccabee for blog and business card design assistance.