Bluebird Music Promotions, LLC: Blog

With a constantly changing music industry, it seems to me that no one should be telling others—“You can’t do that.”  When I am told I can’t do something, I usually get depressed for a few minutes, and then an uncontrollable fire rises inside me, and I do what I need to do to prove that person wrong.  Case in point—as a kid I had a strong desire to play an instrument.  I didn’t care what instrument.  Just get an instrument in my hands.  My young parents placed a clarinet in my hands in the sixth grade.  My peers had two years on me.  I had to catch up.  I practiced like a fool.  By eighth grade I had passed by them.  Then came high school.  I had a private teacher one summer from Oberlin College.  She told me I would never be a great player because of my overbite.  After being depressed for a few minutes, I drove myself to practice every day for 45 minutes.  Each year my scores at All State and other festival auditions improved.  My senior year I received the highest score at All State and next to the highest at the New England Festival auditions.  There.  Take that private teacher from Oberlin!!  As a music educator in three different school systems spanning over 33 years I have had success despite the fact that the administrators in my interviews doubted that I had enough backbone to go up against teenagers.  And now, as I immerse myself in a new career—in a different music world—I know there are doubters out there.  In fact, there are some who say, “You can’t do that.”  After my few minutes of self-doubt, that same old fire rises within and I say, “Watch me!”  With this constantly changing music industry, one must try what their gut feels.  If it works, it’s a bonus.  If it doesn’t, try something else.  No one can predict what the next trend will be.  We keep on “keeping on” and hope we will cut through the noise triumphant!