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Hey everyone! I hope the break in the weather is making you feel as light and hopeful as I am! I am already making plans to go to Florida next January! Later for this I love snow stuff! It’s great when the first snowfall comes because all those childhood memories kick in when you could […]
March is definitely coming in like a lion for me and I’m anticipating it going out like a lamb! I’ve been doing so much inner work in the past year and a half and it is now manifesting on the outside! Who knew that all you had to do was work on yourself and your […]
Hey everyone! My article on the opening doors of Cuba was published in the February issue of The Flute View online. It discusses my personal experiences as well as a touch of the history of Cuban Charanga music. Check it out at www.thefluteview.com!
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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 […]