Nina Simone, Sublime

Our girl calls her Miss Nina and she was her first favorite singer, leading the way for Mr. Dan (Zanes), Mr. Bob (Dylan), Mr M. (Ward), and currently Mr. Cat (Stevens).  But we always come back to Miss Nina, and this amazing song, “Ain’t Got No…/I Got Life.  She actually sings her directions to the band: “One more.”

French Horn in a Vast Space

At the end of her music class my daughter’s teacher always gives her students a hand stamp of an instrument or musical notation.  The french horn lasted longer than all the others and despite its final days of looking more and more like a prison tattoo than anything else, our girl was delighted.  It led us to this, which delights us still…