Introductions... all around.

Alright kids, welcome!  It's about time that we start posting, we leave July 1st!  With that in mind we thought that we'd take a post to introduce the people behind the blog.  For the smarty-pants in the audience, you might be asking, "Why is this necessary??  I could read the 'About Us' tab!"

And this is a great point!

Hmm...

Ah well, you've read this far right?  A little bit more narcissism isn't going to hurt anyone at this point.  So here goes:

I'm Allison Redmon!

Me!  Teaching my Digital Music class!  It was Friday... don't judge the jeans.

 I'm efficient, bossy, and unorganized.  I like making messy piles.  I'm into modern indie & alternative music, love to backpack to weird places with the hubby, teach a group of pretty unique high school band kids, and haven't eaten lunch on my own in 4 years.  I work at a pretty awesome school, Houston Christian High School, and if you click on that link you'll see a fancy picture of said students of whom I teach... lucky them!  Now I realize that the topic of this blog might not be your cup of tea.  Get it?  Cup of tea?  England?  Ha!!  Moving on.  But we're (read 'Andrew') are going to try to make it as funny as possible.  Here's how it works:  My thoughts will be posted in BLACK, and Andrew's will be posted in BLUE.  For the purposes of this blog, you're really not going to want to miss the BLUE stuff, trust me.  I married a pretty funny guy.  So that's me.  Here's the other member of the team:  Andrew!

Hi!  I'm Andrew Redmon!  

Me taking a tabla drum lesson in Singapore with a guy who has been studying tabla since before I was born...

  I am somewhat less efficient (somewhat?), not at all bossy, and organized with certain things.  I like cleaning up Allison's messy piles (Yes!).  I'm into all sorts of music and movie scores, love to backpack to weird places with the wife, and teach crazy and amazing groups of middle school band and choir students.  I work at a better school (Ohhh!!), Grace School.  (Um, no.)  This will be my first time to Europe and I can't wait!  I've always harbored a secret dream to live out the older parts of my life in a small Scottish village tending a flock of sheep and ambling about in my kilt.  I have a feeling this is going to be the first step toward that dream, although as much as I Google it, there is no such thing as short term sheep rental in the UK.  Too bad.  


My interest in early music was really sparked in grad school by Dr. Hunter Hensley at Eastern Kentucky University.  Through learning about and performing that music, I fell in love with the sounds of those musical eras (Ah... sackbuts!).  This grant gives Allison and me the opportunity to experience this music in (we feel) the very best way possible - through live performances by the best groups around.  I'm very much aware that, while I am gushing about how beautiful some 17th century mass is, my poor, captive middle schoolers are thinking "Dude...is it time to go to lunch yet??", as I was most definitely thinking at that time of my life.  Hopefully a few of you are reading this - yes, I know what you think :-)  Hopefully though, you and everyone else will learn a little something from this experience of ours...at the very least what the Super Mario theme sounds like on a 17th century Baroque harpsichord. 

So please (please, please) follow us and enjoy this experience with us!  If nothing else, tune in to see if we accidentally end up in Norway trying to take the Tube 15 times a day.  Bookmark us... now. 

Next post = how to pack a month's worth of stuff into a carry on bag.  Can it be done?  Who even knows??