Now a bit from me.

Andie's musicality started when she began imitating scales and notes "perfectly" at 10 months old. Maybe before that as she would kick her feet in rhythm to any song on the radio when she was about 5 months.

She could sing whole songs before she learned to string words together to make a comprehensible sentence. At 2 years old Santa Lucia was no problem for her. Well except pronouncing the letter "L".

By the time she was 7 she was picking up harmonies. By 9 she was creating her own. At 9 she won the part of the Fairy God Mother in the Disney Cinderella put on by her primary school. The only solo song in the play and usually reserved for older students. At 10 she won a scholarship to summer camp by singing Wouldn't It Be Luverly (a capella with cheesy cockney accent) in a Fluvanna schools talent competion. She was competing against teenage rockers (and pretty good ones at that).

When she entered high school she auditioned for and was placed in the older students choir. Wone many solo parts through the years. At 15 she won a place in the distric choir and 17 won best gospel soloist in a samll school chor at the Virginia Beach Fiestival (a high school choir competion for schools up and down the Eastern Seaboard). The trophy was huge but I think the smile on her face was bigger.

In high school Andie joined the Medieval Society for Creative Anachronists and later became apprentice to a bard. This is where she got turned on to traditional music.

I am going to stop this installment of remembering Andie's musicality, because I need to bolt to an appointment.

More later.

Thank for letting me remember her to any who read here.

Tam