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This spring's performances as "Kasha & Aaron" have gone very well, and have been a great delight.
We were honored to be chosen as a "Smart Bet" by the Arts and Entertainment editor at Mountain Xpress.
Thank you Rebecca for kindly promoting our Special Event March 29th Concert/Discussion at Reuter Center.
The Mountain Xpress blurb featured our photo (below) and the who/what/where/when/details, and went on to say
"Kathleen 'Kasha' Pierson's songwriting stems from her adoration of the early albums of Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell.
Aaron Coffin is at home playing jazz, Celtic jigs, Mozart, and everything in between.
Here's an opportunity to
hear their recently composed music for piano, cello, guitar, and voice,
and talk with them about how it all happens."
Our gratitude to those of you who took the time to come hear what we'd been working on!
There won't be any "Kasha & Aaron" performances for awhile,
as Kasha will be away from Asheville for several months,
but meanwhile enjoy our YouTube videos, and
stay tuned for future developments.
Any suggestions for future venues and/or affordable recording studios with actual acoustic pianos,
please email us (kashainwords -at- gmail -dot- com)
Kasha is a musician and teacher who began singing in the Baltimore coffeehouses in the sixties and
fell into a lucky life of composing/improvising/performing music, primarily for
academic dance departments, while also teaching college music classes part-time.
She has continued crafting and sharing one-of-a-kind songs, with guitar or piano, all her life.
Philosophical and personal, Kasha's music is best suited to "intimate venues," which in these
electronic times has come to include YouTube. We'll let the sociologists explain how that happened!
Kasha would love to play for your house concerts or other gigs, benefits, etc.
She also teaches guitar, piano, composition/theory and music history, one on one, or in classroom or workshop settings.
She also composes, beyond the singer/songwriter realm, with a lifelong specialty in music for choreography,
and would be delighted to hear from choreographers looking for music. She accompanied once again - for the eighteenth time -
at the 2009 American College Dance Festival, and the dance world is never far from her mind.
She also composes for chamber groups and for chorus, and recently completed a large choral work, "Homeland Suite,"
which was commissioned and premiered (May 2008) by the Reuter Center Singers on the UNC-Asheville campus.
Summer 2008 she taught a course called "Exploring Musical Composition" at Reuter Center on the UNC-Asheville campus.
For details on Kasha's serious work as adjunct faculty and accompanist in academia, visit her other site
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last updated 5/5/09