{"id":3304,"date":"2020-01-26T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:09:26","slug":"a-song-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/a-song-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song from Ani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For a musician, recording a song from the heart is a vulnerable thing.&nbsp;<\/strong> It is like turning a diary page into sound waves, and then sending it into the world.&nbsp; This world of harsh opinions and anonymity.  It takes courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This original from Ani Burnet is a true song from the heart.&nbsp; And she presented it beautifully! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe width=\"760\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A3wWpn-C9oo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were in Columbia, MD, to feature at an Open Mic Community Night at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Root Studio (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therootstudio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Root Studio<\/a> (an AMAZING place).&nbsp; We rolled into town quite disheveled, having just driven through downtown Washington DC.  That was insanity.&nbsp; Kudos to Jos\u00e9! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We whipped the bus into shape for tours, whipped ourselves into shape for a show.&nbsp; And then got to enjoy hearing everyone who had come to perform at the open mic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ani Burnet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Ani sang her song at the open mic, the whole room was still.&nbsp; There was a passage in her song where she did a long run, and I did an active eyebrows-up-take-a-small-step-back.&nbsp; Wow!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the open mic, I approached her to see if she would like to record back-up vocals on my collaborative album project. And to record any one of her originals.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It made me think about myself when I was around Ani\u2019s age.&nbsp; I was putting myself out there, performing my songs in public, when a member of my community offered to record a few of my songs.&nbsp; Those few recordings turned into my <a href=\"http:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/store\/Ebony-Digital-Album-p159347742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"first album (opens in a new tab)\">first album<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I can be that person for others.&nbsp; It\u2019s a wonderful feeling.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Song from the Heart<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ani chose to record this song, a very personal piece.&nbsp; And she chose to perform it in a very subdued voice, almost a whisper.&nbsp; At first she was unsure whether that was the right call, but I told her to follow her gut.&nbsp; It\u2019s a beautiful tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a musician, recording a song from the heart is a vulnerable thing.&nbsp; It is like turning a diary page into sound waves, and then sending it into the world.&nbsp; This world&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}