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Greetings my friends. Here’s hoping you are all in the spirit of gratitude as we all move into the holiday season. What helps me through it is of course focusing on my center and in my center is my music. But more important when I wake up in the morning , I am grateful that […]
Hey everyone! It’s been a whirlwind couple of months with things moving very quickly. It feels like everything I have been preparing for is finally coming into fruition. My personal life has changed significantly and I attribute the knowledge I have learned about really surrendering and allowing, to all these wonderful things that are happening. […]
Hey everyone, It’s been a while and lots of things have been happening. I just finished playing a concert with Larry Harlow’s Latin Opera, “Hommy” at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. We rehearsed for two days then performed yesterday. Everything was going great until it started to pour! We kept playing! Then the thunder and lightning […]
My Success Story with Focal Dystonia By Andrea Brachfeld It’s always hard to tell this story from the beginning because no one ever imagines that you will actually get Focal Dystonia so we ignore the beginning of the condition as minor and insignificant. Then we might wake up one day and find that there is […]
Andrea Brachfeld isn’t as well known, in part because she didn’t always focus on jazz, though she merits wider recognition. For Lady Of The Island, she utilizes different combinations of musicians from one track to the next, with material that includes jazz standards, pop and originals. Brachfeld starts with an impressive original, “Bebop Hanna”, featuring […]
Andrea Brachfeld’s new CD, Lady of the Island is an excellent addition to the jazz flute discography. Andrea with a terrific band and headliner guests mixes her own original tunes with tunes by Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, Freddie Hubbard and (title song) Graham Nash. All the playing is first rate, virtuosic in rhythm, pitch, heart […]
Hey everyone! Here’s an interview a high school school in France just posted on me! Here’s the link.
http://marion2296.wix.com/flutistedillevilaine#!andrea-h-brachfeld/cul8
Hey everyone! So I was invited to play at the International Flute Festival in Lima Peru from May 26-May 30. Flutists from all over the world have been invited so it is truly an honor to be part of this amazing opportunity! I will be performimg as well as giving workshops! More news to come soon! Peace!
Andrea will be participating in this year’s Havana Jazz Festival from December 19-22 . She will be performing with Yasek Manzano, the much sought after young lion on the trumpet worldwide, and the legend Bobby Carcassés, the father of Latin Jazz in Cuba, teacher to the greats Dafnis Prieto and Yosvanny Terry. Pictures will follow!
Hey everyone! I just upgraded my merchandise page and you can now buy my original mp3s from me directly! Check out my page. Thanks so much for all your ongoing support!