Jeffrey Li and Celine Tam, ages 10 and 7 respectively, give a stunning performance of Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up.” Keep watching as it builds and builds to an exhilarating conclusion. (And if you want more, the boy did a solo a couple weeks earlier which is shown below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUJ4Y-XOeY   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIs0TQyaaM

Phoenix is home to the MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) where there are over 6,000 instruments on display. If you are ever in town plan to visit! Today’s video is a fellow who is called Mystery Guitar Man who plays 90 of the instruments from the museum … at the same time (via some top level video editing, of course). How many of them can you name? Beside “guitar” and …

A fun way to remind everyone. Safety first!

One of my favorite Bach compositions (Cello Suite No. 1  in G major) completely re-envisioned with a different instrument and setting and personal creativity. A great artist can take the familiar and give it a slight twist or two and make it their own. May this inspire you to do this with your writing today.

This is an amazing story. Sportsmanship at its best. You can’t beat the ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNv2BojVz8

Isn’t this is EXACTLY how you feel when a great book is over? At least he is consistent! (see the frame at the 1:19 mark) What was the last book you read that made you wish it had not ended? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIEeakeXvMM

Sing along! And don’t hate me for putting this tune in your head today…

Since Karen wrote a blog on dialect I thought this video was appropriate this week. Take a deep breath and for seven minutes be mesmerized by the language differences around the world. If you are writing a novel set in one of these places…be very careful with your regional research! Wow.

This isn’t something you see every day. A musical combo of Recorder and Beatbox. Think of the hours of practice that went into his expertise! Do you spend as much time perfecting your writing craft?