This summer is all about balancing work and fun. I’m currently in my hometown of Ashland, Oregon playing shows with Stella Heath’s Bandjango and great guitarist Mimi Fox who was my guitar teacher here in Southern Oregon thirty years ago! August brings a ten-day Orff music teacher intensive training in the Carmel Valley. I look forward to incorporating new repertoire and pedagogy in my teaching this fall for Music Is First. We San Franciscans are used to things heating up in September and this year Indian Summer will bring some fun Stella Heath Big Band gigs as well as a Flower Piano tribute to Rob Reich.