Remember … you can’t effectively pursue your passion casually, which is what happens when you perform or create or work in a bad environment or you spend an inordinate amount of time working on things that mean nothing to you. The right situations will come, as long as you are willing to do all that you can to seek them out, and to milk them for all they are worth when you find them.

Okay, I confess.  I am a literature geek.   That made it hard to resist an offer to sing at a venue named after the protagonist in one of the world’s great fictions.  In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane is said to have been chased away (or done away with) by the Headless Horseman. [...]

There is no latest greatest thing that will catapult a business or a freelance artist out of the recession. There is only brand building, identity building, and quality preservation.

I am thrilled and humbled to have landed a spot with music legend Sonny Turner, former lead singer of The Platters. I have been added on as the girl singer for a series of dates with this wonderfully dynamic and talented entertainer and his group.

It looks like the jazz series at Brendan’s Pub is on hiatus again.