by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Since becoming a homeowner, I’ve fallen in love with my guitar all over again. My favorite nights are those where I’m sitting on my back porch in the summertime, strumming my guitar underneath the stars. [caption id="attachment_1917" align="alignleft" width="300"] Me, playing solo in...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom I've been in bands easily half my life. Much of the time, they're formed out of friendships, work/school connections or circumstance, plus being in the right place at the right time. That's how Grandma's Mini, my longest-running Washington, D.C., rock band with my...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Music is all about timing. Quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and so on. But so is pretty much everything else. I’ve been thinking a lot about timing lately, as I always feel like I’m running out of time, between working, mothering, sleeping,...