Let's Start the New Year Right!

Wishing all of you the best next year evereverever!  Here's to an amazing 2013!

P.S. Video created by Sally!  

The Beauty of Beginnings

I am lucky enough to have Sally* of Flying Down to Hollywood as a cowriter for my hit radio show, Rose-Colored Radio.  I always love what she writes but her ending for my latest show, the New Year's show, was so beautiful and inspiring, I thought it deserved, nay, needed to be written out for everyone, even those that (believe it or not) don't listen to the podcast, to read.

...let’s take a moment to admire the beauty of beginnings. Aren’t beginnings beautiful things? New Year’s is a wonderful holiday because it’s a time for a new perspective. It’s a time to do what you’ve always wanted to do, become what you’ve always wanted to become, to decide what it really is you want to do when you grow up. 

Now as we step tentatively into 2012, we take a brief look back at 2011. Goodness! Think of how much you accomplished! Think of all that you did, all of the people you met, all of the wonderful food you tasted, the books you read, the movies you watched, the podcasts you discovered. You deserve a round of applause for all that 2011 brought to you. 

Now we can go boldly into 2012, knowing that we can do anything, we can do everything. We can keep our resolutions or we can break them – either way, we were brave enough to try, to change, to grow. 

--- Sally Flynn

*She did a brilliant guest post for me on Monday!  Please read and be enlightened!  

Sixteenth Episode of Rose-Colored Radio Show Brought to you by toasting the New Year

In which we proudly embrace our new New Year's resolutions and celebrate all we've accomplished. 




Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast from my new EP, "Down the Rabbit Hole"

Written by Sally Flynn and Emma Wallace

Happy, Happy New Year!

 Auld Lang Syne by iamemma 

I hope 2012 is one of your best years yet and that the dreams you're hoping for fall into place perfectly.


Love you!
Emma




P.S. My New Year's podcast will be up on Friday! Come by and hear it!

Music to Help You Reach Your 2010 Goals!

First photo from here, second and third from here

Ah, the New Year! So many resolutions (and I've seem some very ambitious ones!) yet getting in shape (aka: lose weight, exercise more, etc.) is one of the top-est. Diana from ourcitylights got me thinking about what would be a great workout playlist.

Here, my gift to my motivated readers, a workout/energizing playlist (I tried to put it in a reasonable order too- warm-up to cool-down):

1. 99 Luftballons by Nena (It builds slowly - good for the first song!)

3. Stop Me Mark Ronson's version (Much more upbeat than the Smiths' version)

4. You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi

5. Relator by Pete Yorn (Found this song via Lulu Letty! Thanks!)

6. Faith by George Michael (Will probably appear in every single playlist I ever make. Perfect for picking you up in the middle of your grueling workout).

7. Lollipop by MIKA (He has a ton of songs that would work but this one always makes me smile)

8. There Will Never be Another You sung by Ernestine Anderson

9. Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Lite (Nice cool down in the middle. Plus the song is so fun!)

10. Sea Lion Woman by Feist

11. I'm Your Man by Wham! (Yay! Second George Michael song!)

12. It's Alright with Me sung by Harry Connick, jr.

13. Fidelity by Regina Spektor (It's slow but a good cooldown song)

14. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets by Sting (Trés romantique! To remind you of why we're all working out in the first place. Probably.)

What other songs should be added?

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I've Been Waiting for You... Weekly Song Sketch

I hope you all have had a marvelous start to your new year! I thought I'd celebrate by releasing a never-before-recorded original, Rapunzel. Hooray!

So, as always, if you want a copy, just let me know in a comment (if it's your first time requesting, please leave your email). And please feel free to pass it along to friends and such.

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, all!

I feel so lucky to have met you in 2009 - I've been inspired, encouraged and educated by your blogs and comments. Thank you!

May 2010 be the best year yet!

P.S. This Sunday I'll be posting, for the first time ever, an original, never-before-released song as a song sketch. So be sure to come back by Sunday morning! Until then, enjoy the new year!

And after then, you can enjoy the new year too, actually. Hopefully even more than before.

P.P.S. Feel free to follow me! I promise only ever to lead you to bright, sunny places!

A New Resolve

As you all know, the date is currently September 4. Therefore I've decided to get started on some of my New Year's resolutions. One resolution I have in particular - I made a goal to have three songs learned and memorized by the end of the year, Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin, Impromptu Number 4 in A flat Major by Schubert and Maple Leaf Rag by Joplin. So, I'm going to apply myself, slaving at the piano until my eyes blur from the tiny notes and my tea grows cold with neglect.

My first song will be Schubert's Impromptu. Confession: I actually began working on it once I decided to blog about it so I have a bit of a head start (although not the head start I would have had if I had started in January). I shall try to think of some creative way to let you know that I have held to my end of the bargain and am learning/memorizing the songs I said I would (even if they are faster and more heavily pedaled than the originals).

Any New Year's Resolutions you are going to revisit with the crispness of Fall to energize you? And if you have an idea of how I can prove that I've mastered the new songs, feel free to suggest.

Hooray for the New Year!

 

Hello all!

I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday!  I truly enjoyed mine but am now (like many others, I'm sure) happy to begin a brand new year.  So, I wanted to wish you and your loved ones a prosperous, music-filled and delightful 2009! 

 

My music videos are up on YouTube!  Visit my page (http://youtube.com/iamemmamusic) and make kind comments and high ratings!  While you're there, check out Vespersaw's channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/vespersaw); she has posted several fan videos.  If you're a YouTube account holder, you can even subscribe to the channel and be alerted the instant a new video is posted.  Whew!

 

I'd love more friends!  If you are a MySpacer or Facebooker, be sure to look me up and, if you invite me as a friend, I promise I will cordially and graciously accept.   

 

Lastly (but not leastly, of course) I want to extend my appreciation to you for your support throughout 2008!  The only way that I am able to thrive as an indie musician is by your word of mouth, by you buying cds to give to friends and by your attendance at my shows through the year.  

 

Thank you tons and tons!