Gathering in the Year
2025 certainly has been an eventful year in my life, and music had followed me all the way through my adventures and travels! Therefore, in lieu of monthly or seasonal updates, I offer you a review of my musical discoveries and recollections throughout this significant year, which has seen, among other things, a two-week long visit to England for Dulcimer and Halsway week and sightseeing, the long-anticipated release of my Irish music anthology for mountain dulcimer called Irish Emeralds for Mountain Dulcimer , and most recently the beginning of an intensive health journey throughout which music will continue to be a constant, through teaching, performing, and listening! Here are some of my favorite things I have listened to this year... Katherine Priddy "Indigo" "Indigo" is an early composition by up-and-coming folk urban musician Katherine Priddy (admittedly the only one of hers that I've listened to!). My suspicion is that this track's sensuous and expec...