Brandee Younger

This was a year or two ago–Dezron, Curtis & myself, playing around under the direction of Laura   Pretty Free! & Pretty Fun! (by the way, this picture above is one of my favorites! it’s Dezron, Keaon(not playing here), me & Curtis. taken by Byon Dean at a benefit for Haiti)

Thou Swell <–This is what I’m listening to, now. I can never, ever get sick of listening to Dorothy Ashby and am lucky to have all of the recordings that I have!  This track is off her 1st album, “The Jazz Harpist” — and that’s Frank Wess on flute, Ed Thigpen on drums, Wendall Marshall [...]

Thanks to all who came out Friday night to the Encore Music Forum‘s last concert at the Nabi Art Gallery (I know this post is maybe 3 days late – but I have been working ).  It was an incredible time and so many beautiful people came out. I can’t thank Curtis Torian (drums) & [...]

Happy 2011 Everyone I’m excited to be playing in the city again.  It will be a small, fun concert of standard & original music at the Nabi Art Gallery on January, 14, 2011 put on by the Encore Music Forum. Yours truly, Harp; Dezron Douglas, Bass; John Davis, Drums; Special Guest, Niia Bertino, Voice. I [...]

We all know that Oprah made her big announcement last year about the The Oprah Winfrey Show entering its last season, and we all know what to look forward to as OWN just launched this weekend, 1/1/11! So what does this have to do with harping?  Absolutely nothing.  But, I’m posting this blog in response [...]