I can’t remember a time when music was not an essential factor in my life. My earliest childhood memories are of singing, followed by an entire lifetime of being an artist. So, my involvement in the arts seems fitting and suggests bias concerning the importance of...

Three significant components of community education are lifelong learning opportunities, community involvement, and efficient use of community resources. When these components connect with community needs, it supports civic growth within a community.  Community...

Upon entering the Mill Pond Music Studio in Portsmouth, NH you are sure to be greeted by the welcoming presence of studio owner James Prendergast. James established the studio upon relocating back to New England from Nashville, Tennessee, where he had resided for 30+...

It has been my experience that when kids are given the opportunity to be creative, self-expression will take its place in the forefront and all becomes well with the world.

Creative expression is inherent to human existence. It is how our imagination becomes an active ingredient in our lives. However, as we grow older, it is common to believe creative expression is segregated into categories of artist versus non-artist, and never the...

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, on the other side of all this, in the land of all that, where rainbows appear like smiling faces and bubbles of laughter ride the wind…there lives the Divinely Clueless Fairy Godmother who knows what she knows but sometimes...