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African American Music Appreciation Month: June 2021

A summer 2021 hello to All my readers around the world. My summer project  for 2021 is on poetry and music. So, I've put on my old Hip Hop hat and braids and relaxed a little in order to flow into a sonic groove.                                Delores   (My musician persona re-emerging ) This June, I decided to start practicing piano again. It's been quite a few months since I limited my focus to engagement with multi-faceted aspects of music and in particular, music performance One major question keeps echoing over and over: How DID I manage at least 100+ hours at the piano each month as a young musician?????? Wow, what a difficult task now to inhabit the space and routine of a serious musician, let alone a very COVID impacted musician.  (I won't discuss my pre-vac and post-vac experiences. But I do want to sat Thank you to both president Trump AND president Biden for making the vaccine available to the general public. My health care providers for taking that extra effor