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Songs and stories of love and reminiscence, with orchestral backing, a beautiful choir, and renowned musicians... all laid in a bed of 1,000 flickering candles in a historic grand church in Salt Lake City. You won't want to miss this.

Summer 2024 has two free concerts with mymusical friends, Mark Robinette, Kelly DeHaan and Timo Petersen. The LDS Church Free Summer Concert Weries in SLC on June 21, and the Davis Arts Council Sunday Free Concert Series in Layton UT. Check out the info below. I'll also be joining Mark, Kelly, Rich Dixon and Daron Bradford performing songs we have written for the beautiful dancers from Clytie Adams School of Ballet. The week of June 11-15 we'll be at Weber State Browning Cent

COVID made us too comfortable being alone. Let's reconnect!

Shout out to all you mama and papa bears out there as you send your little bears off to school. All sorts of emotions bubble up this time of year, and even though I do not personally get to send my littles off every morning any more, I'm thinking of you who do, and I'm sending whispers of encouragement. You will survive the changes, and so will your kids. Homework will not kill you, though if I recall correctly it was the bane of my existence when my kids were in in the middl

It's that wonderful time of year again, when hundreds of little dancers swirl across the stage at Weber State University's Browning Arts Center Auditorium for the Clytie Adams Ballet School recital. This year Mark Robinette Kelly DeHaan and I wrote 25 little songs for the performances. Among those twirling girls were my grand-daughters Sophie Connors and Beth Merrill, and my grand niece, Quincey Hansen. It was a delicate thing to find the sweet spot between the joy of watchin

Oh my goodness, what a grand old time we had at our Christmas Concerts this past week! We transformed the stage to resemble my actual family room, which made me feel right at home, and five of the MOST AMAZING MUSICIANS joined me in telling stories and making music Kelly DeHaan, Melanie Shore, Nicole Pinnell, Aaron Ashton and of course Mark Robinette made me sound much better than I actually do in my own family room. It was super awesome. And a sell-out crowd each night made

It’s a rare artist who is also a good business person, and I am not that rare artist. Still, when you pour your energy and emotion into any creative work, you risk a stab to the ego, so maybe it’s just self-defense that makes most artists bad business people. I am THE WORST at updating my website. If anyone ever wanted to see who I am and what I’m up to, this is sadly not the best place to find that info. I update in fits and spurts, the way I clean my house. I apologize. Th

Why yes --  yes indeed, I am still making music. In between the living life and the dreaming about it, between teaching guitar and tending littles, I do occasionally write a song and occasionally share it. I guess the big news for me is that I am heading back into the recording studio, with dreams of making an EP of songs by the end of the year. (EP, meaning extended play recording - not quite as long and involved as a whole album, but just as fun.) There are about five song

Remember when Christmas displays didn't go up in stores until after Thanksgiving? That was a LONG time ago, but I remember it. And then it moved back to mid November, which disturbed our parents. And then, midnight on Halloween, the night stockers cleared off the middle aisles, relegating the leftover spooky stuff to clearance carts, and out came the candy canes and stiff red fish-net stockings filled with miscellany. Last week I visited our local grocer, walked past the pump

Dave got me a cute little soprano ukulele for my birthday. Rock On! Hi Folks - It's been a while since I've checked in. I apologize about that. Just want to let you know I'm still here, still making music, writing music, and writing other stuff ( you can find my daily writing HERE). My most recent musical projects, besides teaching 50 guitar students every week, have been performing 5-10 times a month for various organizations and private parties. (I love my monthly shows f

There are plenty of reasons to look forward to the holidays this year.  So much political nastiness has been spewing that I, for one, am ready for goodness and kindness and graciousness to return.  Perhaps it was no accident that our elections are set to occur just a few steps before the time when our hearts and our minds are called Homeward in gratitude and reverence.  We need this repeated reminder, Thanksgiving and Christmas rolling around the same time each year, the same

Join the incomparably talented Peter Breinholt, the delightful and gifted Nancy Hanson, and me in a Benefit Concert on Saturday October 15, 7:00 pm at Davis High School in Kaysville UT. Tickets are $10 for reserved seats and can be purchased HERE.  All proceeds go to the astronomical expenses of a young family dealing with childhood cancer.  As if cancer itself wasn't devastating  enough, they are burdened with thousands upon thousands of dollars in expenses.  Join us in the

Most of you know me as a songwriter, and that is generally how I define myself professionally.  But did you know I am also just a wordsmith?  Actually, I'm kind of a hack at it, but I do like putting strings of words together.  During the season of Lent, the weeks leading up to Easter, I commit to writing something of substance every day.  I publish those daily writings on my blog, which I do mostly to keep myself accountable.  Mostly, I keep these writings for my kids and ot

Thanks to my friend/second cousin John Reynolds of bluepinemedia.com, we once again are up and running on the web. The business of being an independent musician is tricky, just like most small businesses, and we who are of the right-brained world struggle to run business with the oft ignored left side of the brain.  But here we are, a little brain weary, but hopefully running smoothly and all spruced up. We who make music for a profession appreciate people who visit our own

I'm working on creating a new website. Yup. You'll be glad.  I'll be happy, if I am still alive when it gets done.  Fingers crossed...Brain on overload...Check in later and see if I get this figured out. All I really want to do is go find a stash of chocolate somewhere.  Seriously. Cheers. Cori