Maintaining Your Instrument

How do you maintain your instrument? Do you dust it every once in a while? Do you tune it? Do you replace mallets, old strings? We dancers do all of these things in order to maintain our body (although the less replacing we have to do, the better), and for all of us, maintenance is… Read More

And the Land of the Sweets Winner is…

…Allie Maki Maya with this Oregon inspired coffee laced recipe:  Coffee Toffee with Oregon Hazelnuts 1 cup (2 sticks or 8 ounces) butter 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons molasses (can swap corn syrup or honey) 1/4 teaspoon salt (or a heaping 1/4 teaspoon flaky sea salt) 1 1/2… Read More