Welcome to GeekMom’s Music Week!
Hello. My name is Cathé, and I’m a music geek. I admit to studying all sorts of instruments including (but not limited to!) piano, flute, bagpipes, and trombone. Three years as a music education major...
View ArticleMusic Week: Meet Geek Musician and GeekDad, John Anealio
Working in various forms of media over the years, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work with and get to know many independent musicians. I’m very happy that GeekMom is doing a music week, as it...
View ArticleMusic Week: A Music Career is Not For Everyone
I’ve been music lover since I was a child. I think it all started when I was cast as Molly in my local community theater’s production of Annie. I got the part because I was cute and could act as ......
View ArticleMusic Week: My Geek Dad And The Music He Gave Me
Thanks to my father I am somewhat of a musical oddity. His obsession with ALL music led to my favorite band being The Beatles at age 16, the highlight of a BBC Radio 1 festival being Status Quo instead...
View ArticleMusic Week: Classical Music Too Hard to Handel? Not with Maestro Classics
My knowledge of classical music was mostly derived from Saturday morning cartoons, until I became a mom and discovered classical music packaged for kids. In the Baby Einstein years, those soothing...
View ArticleMusic Week: Music Professions Beyond Being a Rock Star
I’m not a person who was blessed with musical abilities. I grew up falling asleep to the sound of my mom pounding out Baptist hymns on the piano, just to relax after a long day of raising lots of kids....
View ArticleMusic Week: Practice Makes Perfect: Entering Songwriting Competitions
Over the years, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work with many wonderful independent musicians and song writers. In the last couple of years, most of my independent music library and the...
View ArticleMusic Week: Getting Your Music Heard: Making Use Of New Marketing Models
If you are a musician, or any type of creative for that matter, you want to have your product consumed. In the digital age, an age where people can consume media for free and, as a result, an age with...
View ArticleMusic Week: Geeking Out With the Ukulele
“Play something I’d recognize,” an intrepid Hawaii traveler insisted when we visited the mainland some time ago. My son, the ‘ukulele player, played several traditional Hawaiian songs, drawing nothing...
View ArticleMusic Week: Five Independent Musicians You Should Know
At the beginning of Music Week, I wrote about John Anealio. There are five more independent musicians I think you should know. Each use new marketing models to promote and distribute their music. Each...
View ArticleMusic Week: Baby’s First Jazz
My kids love jazz. We can listen to John Coltrane albums on endless repeat thanks to a single animator, Michal Levy, who explores “the visualization of sound.” When my daughter was a few months old, my...
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