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What’s Your Forte?

What’s Your Forte is an interview series in which members of the Bandology team interview musicians, conductors, composers, teachers, students and community members about their experiences with music and their views on the power of music education.

Click here to listen as a podcast or search for Bandology on your favourite podcast app (Spotify | Apple Podcasts). Or click here to watch on YouTube.

Amanda Kind and the Winding Paths of Music Careers

Our guest this week is Amanda Kind, the Artistic Director of KW Glee, as well as a singer, songwriter, and commercial and musical theatre voice teacher based in Waterloo. She joins Sandy on What's Your Forte? to talk about her unique career path and the importance of lifelong learning.

Want to take part, or know someone who would be great for this? Send an email to info@bandology.ca.

P.S. Just in case you didn’t know: Forte is a dynamic direction in music to play loud or strong. At Bandology, we have strong feelings about the value of music!

Hayley 90 seconds about fear. (Dir. Stian Smestad Music by Nils Frahm)

Before walking a 52 meter highline at 2800 altitude in midst winter, I asked Hayley about fear. She replied with her favorite quote from Frank Herbert's "Dune". A short film about Hayley Ashburn, filmed in the Torri del Vajolet, set to the hypnotizing soundtrack Tristana by Nils Frahm.

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