A song from The Offhand Band’s debut album Everyone's Invited has just been included on a fundraiser album that also features the legendary Pete Seeger. The album is available for a limited time and in limited quantities at the GrowthBusters…
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SpinTunes Wrap-Up
My participation in the SpinTunes songwriting contest has come to an end! It was a valuable experience. I learned a lot about my songwriting and how to improve it, as well as about how to best participate in this type…
The Wiggle Factor!
Looks like The Offhand Band is catching on in some places! The Wiggle Factor shows a little girl getting her groove on to Naked Time from our debut album Everyone's Invited. She even provides her own improvised piano accompaniment as…
The Creative Process: How Appreciative Inquiry and Internal Family Systems Invited Everyone to Make Everyone’s Invited
I’d been meaning from the start to tell the story of the making of the album Everyone's Invited, because I felt the way it was made was maybe as significant as the album itself. Now I’ve finally had the chance,…
Moondancing Billie Jean — My Michael Jackson Tribute
I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I did really like a lot of his stuff, and in general I thought, despite whatever else one might think about him, he was a pretty fantastic songwriter. I’d been playing…
Oh, Right, I’m Supposed To Be Blogging
I always meant to blog here regularly about how things are going with this “band,” what it’s like to be a musician, things like that. It’s been tricky with so many other things going on. I won’t say they keep…
Even More Patience Required!
Pretty funny and strange and sad how many things keep coming up that are making me put off getting the word out more about this music and continuing to build the website. I’ve been sick for a month, I’ve had…
Patience, A Little Patience
I’d intended to have the website all done by last week, and then make a giant announcement to everyone I know everywhere about the album being released this past Tuesday, and then there’d be celebration and huge sales and who…
Kids Sampling the Songs
This morning, we had a two-hour delay which turned into a full day off due to, what do they call it?, something like non-weather-related circumstances. It was a bomb threat. In any case, the two kids we watch in the…