by Louie Ferrera | Sep 30, 2024 | Music
Research has shown that the most effective way to conjure up an old memory is through the sense of smell. Well, the researchers never got around to my house because for me it’s always been music. Growing up in a house where music was always playing in the...
by Louie Ferrera | Jul 19, 2023 | Music
By now the anticipation level was pretty high. Think kid in a candy store. Think six year old at Christmas. Over the past week I’ve tried to keep my expectations in check but sitting here at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater, the scene of so many evenings dancing to the...
by Louie Ferrera | Oct 6, 2021 | Friends & Family, Music
My son has a particularly creative English teacher. For a recent assignment she had her students choose 7-10 songs that were important to them at some point in their lives. They were to write a short vignette about why each song was important, create a playlist and...
That’s so cool! They’re here in the Willamette River and the Delta Ponds, but as much as I walk the…
So sweet! I love those river otters!
Yes! I enjoyed this writing, and the commentors' notes as well. "We played the music and the music played us"…
Person-to-person gifts of back-yard fruit, and compassionate acts done just for others, carry messages of human kindness that can't be…
The joy we got from sharing music, in real time, together, and in real life, was a generational gift that's…