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It's been a pleasure to do some remote recording sessions through the stay-at-home-orders this year. Most recently I arranged and recorded violin and viola on a handful of tracks for fingerstyle guitarist Doug Young's new Christmas album, "Forever ...
I fell in love with this Spanish carol from the mid-1800s when I was searching for traditional holiday music for Monterey's annual "Christmas in the Adobes" event.
After teaching it to a few of my violin students who were interested ...
This Renaissance carol, “Riu Riu Chiu”, has been going around in my head for weeks! I recorded this version today on Garage Band, uploaded it to YouTube (my first time!!), and wanted to share it with everyone in honor of California's Spanish heritage. ...
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