Sounds of Encouragement

Artist Gurm was born in India, grew up in China and currently resides in Thailand. Having grown up and been schooled in an international environment, immersed throughout in a multi-cultural atmosphere, she has always been fascinated with the unique cultural elements and stories from all over the world. After following art as a passion since her middle school days, she honed her ski

Lauren Best lives where the Pottawatomi River meets Georgian Bay, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (now known as Owen Sound, Ontario). She is an interdisciplinary creative with a multifaceted community arts practice interweaving her work as a poet, musician, and composer/creator.Lauren left her small Ontario town as a young singer-songwriter keyboardist and returned t

Lauren Best lives where the Pottawatomi River meets Georgian Bay, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (now known as Owen Sound, Ontario). She is an interdisciplinary creative with a multifaceted community arts practice interweaving her work as a poet, musician, and composer/creator.Lauren left her small Ontario town as a young singer-songwriter keyboardist and returned t

Chris Rugowski is the man, or chicken as he is known to many, behind Chicken or The Egg Photography. He is a photojournalist who captures your authentic story. As of 2023, he’s been in photography for about a decade, and in that time has gone from hobbyist with an iphone doing a full time job in software engineering (i.e. living in the matrix) to breaking free of the matrix to be

Pam Asberry, M.M., has over forty years of professional experience as a music educator, adjudicator, performer, recording artist, speaker, author, composer and arranger. A BMI artist, she has released nine solo piano albums to date and her music can be heard on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Sirius XM, and elsewhere. Described as “a new age solo pianist of uncommon melodic grace,

Asher began classical violin training at the tender age of2 and had already performed with the Buffalophilharmonic by age 13.Asher’s expertise in improvisation across multiple genreshas led him to a career as a soloist in demand,performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden,Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob JavitzCenter and across four continents. Asher has also be

Katie Dahl is a songwriter and playwright whose work is as expansive as Lake Michigan and as deeply rooted as its rocky coastal bluffs. A small-town celebrity on the Wisconsin peninsula where her family has lived for 175 years, she is now a radio-charting folk artist who tours around the world. Clear-eyed and tough-minded, fresh and funny, Katie “delivers razor-sharp lyrics with

Owner/Instructor at the Linda Kennedy School of Piano and Voice, Linda began as an educator, arranger and performer at the age of 14. Mrs. Kennedy is both a degreed and Nationally Certified teacher. She is a former instructor for Yamaha International and Kimball International. Mrs. Kennedy is a member of Kansas City Music Teachers Assoc. and former Executive Board member. She is an

Amy Rood Miller is an accomplished private music instructor, music therapist, and performer. She has sung numerous roles and performances in and around the NYC and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. In 2014 she founded Creative Music Lessons, LLC, a company that provides a more fun and interactive approach to musical instruction. This distinctive teaching style combines the soft

For Peter's bio, see the show notes for Part 1 of the interview.Visit Peter's website at https://www.bazylistudio.com/bazyli-studio-wearable-art-galleryInspirational Art/Artists1) La Sagrada Familia Basilica by Antonio Gaudi2) artist Nick Cave3) "Seaweed" by Lenore Towney4) "Shakespeare is in the Alley" installation by Skye Ciesla5) "Seamless Stor