Salt Spring Island, Aug 2018. Photo by Dee DiGoia.

First Zoom show performance, November 2020.

Music has always been a deep love of mine, and theatre wasn’t far behind.

Since I was a kid, I’ve loved to listen to music and to sing. I also started playing and performing piano when I was a young child.

After failing an exam when I was 16 years old, I rage-quit the piano. I would be well into my thirties before I started playing with any regularity again.

I never stopped listening to various forms of music, but my own expression was hilariously limited—most often by myself—to the occasional karaoke night, and enjoying contemplative musical practices on various retreats after I started meditating in 2010.

Though this skill set and passion inevitably helped lead me to direct musical theatre for my entire classroom-teaching career (another one of my deep loves!), my personal musical forays were stalled until 2016, when I purchased myself a used Yamaha keyboard for my birthday and again started to dabble. This dabbling has grown into a trickle and, slowly, a river.

I love experimenting with music and voice, as well as writing songs and dabbling with recording and performing. In November 2020 I performed my first “official” solo theatre show when I wrote and debuted the first piece of “With Great Love” through Joyful Raven Studios. I was also deeply honored to have my submission of “The Stranger” be a part of a Gord Downie Legacy concert in October 2021, hosted by FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.

I started doing little Zoom music shows for friends here and there. For the 2022, 2023 and 2024 summer seasons, I was an official busker in Sylvan Lake but can’t say I went out much! Starting spring 2025, I plan on scheduling semi-regular zoom shows again, and I also look forward to more busking in the upcoming season.

Stay tuned for a new public performance of the first piece of “With Great Love” and new projects and songs!