Category Archives: Musings

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Elaine Romanelli

Beautiful People, I have so appreciated your support reading this blog. You know how much I love to write! I truly love writing. But of course as you know I also LOVE to sing! And play piano! And guitar! And … Continue reading →

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Surviving and Thriving: the kicker

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Elaine Romanelli

Part 3 of 3 articles I wrote and published on Music Think Tank about thriving at music conferences. This is the turbo-charge-it summary, so if you’re short on time, read this one! http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-3.html  

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How to Thrive at a Music Conference, part 2

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Elaine Romanelli

Behold: part 2 of a 3-part series I wrote and published on Music Think Tank, about how to survive and thrive at a music conference. http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-2.html

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Three Tips to Thrive at the Folk Alliance conference

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Elaine Romanelli

These posts are in preparation for Folk Alliance International’s annual conference. FAI is the mothership to all the other -erfa’s I’ve mentioned (SERFA, NERFA, SWERFA, etc.). This is part 1 of 3, all originally published on Music Think Tank. http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-1.html

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Winter

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

The longer excerpt is also beautiful (and surprising to me that it comes from Camus): “My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, … Continue reading →

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The Timer Trick

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

I am fidgety. I have been all day. And not the artistically spastic happy kind: The anxious, resistant kind. My To Do list looms; I keep not checking items off. On days like this, I feel like I’ve never accomplished … Continue reading →

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New directions

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

Beautiful blog readers, hello! Betcha thought I dropped off the edge of the earth! (Good news on that front, actually, if you’ve been in a coma since Galileo: the earth is round. So we’re safe! Well. Not from danger in … Continue reading →

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Catharsis

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

Reason #19 to support my crowdfunding campaign: Because songs help you heal… Weep not Weep not for me I am reading by the light With a half-writ limerick in my lap Weep not for me Weep not Weep not for … Continue reading →

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And a spoonful of innuendo for dessert

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

Reason #22 to support my crowdfunding campaign: Because you enjoy a side dish of poetry with your main course of catchy tunes. Excerpt from my song The Difference: I am no pale wounded bird I am no Jezebel, spinning through … Continue reading →

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One Small Drop

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Elaine Romanelli

Reason #23 to be part of my crowdfunding campaign: Because support you give to an independent artist ripples out into many lives. If music has ever comforted you, lifted your spirits, given shape to a feeling you couldn’t otherwise express, … Continue reading →

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