Music

  • Author Real Life,  Music

    A Holy Night

    As promised, I now have the final recording for O Holy Night from our Christmas program. This was recorded about a week before the actual program by one of the guys who does his own recording/mixing. The arrangement was written by the fellow playing the piano, so it’s all in house. I think it turned out really well, and I hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas Everyone!    

  • Author Real Life,  Music

    Barbershop Christmas

    I’ve spoken of my love more music many times in my books and on Austen Authors. Recently I joined a barbershop quartet group. If you need a bit of humility in your life, join a group doing something you love and you think you’re pretty good at, then play catch up with the other members.   The other guys have been singing together for many years and recently lost their fourth member to a move, and brought me in to replace him. I’ve sung barbershop before, but always one offs, never as part of a group who focused on the genre. Trying to get up to speed has been challenging,…

  • Author Real Life,  Music

    Just a Little Early Christmas Cheer

    I’ve started to create a loose posting schedule, which will hopefully help me pull attention from other things for this blog. While I won’t commit to a rigid schedule at this time, it’s my hope that this will lead me to posting one, maybe two a week.   For today, I thought I’d share a quick Christmas video with you. I’ve spoken in other places, including the bio that goes into every one of my books, of my love of music, and of Christmas music in particular. I hope to have some recordings of the groups I’m involved with closer to Christmas, but I thought I’d share a video on…

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