Rhonda Edgington
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Music is the Secret Sauce
Musicians are always busy during the holidays. As a church musician, there are all sorts of special services around Christmas, full of music. And for a performing musician, there are extra concert gigs as well. And then personally, I enjoy making music in many ways at the holidays. We like to take our kids caroling…
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Pipe Organs have a rich history that is Music to our Ears
One of the most unique concerts I played 2022 took place at the Lake Leelenau RV Park in northern Michigan. The owner of this park, a kindly widower in his 80’s, is a lover of pipe organs and organ music, as well as being very handy with electronics and general building. So it happened that…
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Notes from on the Road: a professional musician who likes to write, about music
One of the ways I spend (some of) my days is by traveling to play concerts in other towns. For me, it’s a chance to visit a new place, interact with musician colleagues, hone my performing skills, make some money and a name for myself professionally, and get to know a new pipe organ. That’s…
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Notes from at Home : a professional musician who likes to write, about music
Living on 12th street near Kollen Park, we often hear music from the bandstand, as we eat outside on summer evenings. We’ve half-heard American Legion Band concerts for years as background music, but a combination of summer-induced laziness, and preconceived musician assumptions meant I’d never actually attended a concert in the over ten years we’ve…
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Pandemic Music Making – Part 2 (fall 2021)
Continued from the previous post… In the fall of 2021, Great Lakes Duo had two regional concert tours. Brian moved from Chicago to Tennessee during the pandemic, so I drove down south to play 3 concerts with him, and he drove up to Michigan to play two with me. Our first stop was Middle Tennessee…
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Pandemic Music Making – Part 1 (2020 and some of 2021)
I haven’t written a blog entry in quite some time, because for awhile I wasn’t sure if and when we’d ever have live concerts again. But since we are finally returning to live music, it turns out that I have some stories and pictures to share from those strange days. I played quite a few…
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Outdoor Chamber Music Concert for Tulip Time 2021
Outdoor Chamber Music Concert for Tulip Time 2021 Missing Live Music? Then join Greg Bassett (French Horn), Adam Graham (Bass Trombone), and Rhonda Edgington (piano) for a concert of light classical music by Bach, Schubert, Bolcom, and 20th/ 21st century composers from Canada, the US, Nigeria, and the Netherlands. BYOC (bring your own chair),…
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2019 – The last normal year of our lives?
Dear Readers, In the middle of summer 2020 while I’m compiling this blog post, all these activities of 2019 seem so very far away. Flying across the country in airplanes; traveling far and wide (Arizona and Disneyworld!?); playing live concerts; getting up close with friends and strangers… That was then, back when we took all…
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Travels near and far – Germany, Ann Arbor, Ithaca and West Point!
It was a treat this past summer to attend the AGO National Convention in Kansas City in July. I took the train there and enjoyed watching the scenery pass by, going over both iconic rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi. Another fun fact about the railroad: on a Sunday, while riding through Missouri and Kansas,…
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Kansas City & New York City; Herbie Hancock & Dr Lonnie Smith: 2018, the first half…
During the Midwest’s “Polar Vortex” of January 2019, sitting at home watching the snow pile up, it seems like a good time to update the blog again. In the dead of last winter, January 2018, I found myself driving over to Lansing, (right in the middle of the Hand) for a concert I played for…
