I wrote a new song! I made it my goal to write twelve songs again this year, and this is my seventh. That means I’m ahead of schedule. Yay! This one’s a bit political, which is atypical for me, but it’s about topics I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: income inequality, the wealth gap, and the […]
I had a great time playing at the Shakori Hills Grassroots Band Contest with Gary Adams and Anthony Floyd two weeks ago. Although we didn’t place this time, it was our best performance yet. Check out our video below: (If you’re wondering who did win the contest, my other band Honey Magpie got […]
This year, I challenged myself to write at least 12 new songs before 2016. I’m happy to report that I’ve written song #1! The new song is called “Nothing to Say to You.” I think it’s one of my best, but the subject matter is a little heavy. It deals with gross boundary-violating behavior and […]
Two weeks ago, both of my projects, Pippa Hoover Duo and Honey Magpie, played at the Corner Tavern Open Mic Night. One of the hosts caught a clip of Pippa Hoover playing “Folksong #1”: And though we didn’t get a clip of Honey Magpie playing, we did get a cute picture of the band […]
I’ve been trying to catch “Sally’s Song” on video for months now (mostly because it’s my boyfriend’s favorite) and it finally happened! Check out the video below to see Gary and me playing it at Mystery Brewing Pub in Hillsborough, NC. by
I can’t believe it happened again – my band won second place in the Shakori Hills Grassroots Band Contest. In the video below, check out “A Grace You Don’t Deserve,” one of the songs we played during our performance. by
… Then Gave a Stellar Performance of His Own Last Thursday, while my guitarist Gary and I were practicing, we realized we had no live footage of us playing together. We decided to head over to the open mic night at The Big Easy in downtown Raleigh and have my boyfriend take a few videos. […]
Sometimes, a particular place can be a treasure trove of musical inspiration. Whenever you spend time there, or even just think about it, you come up with a great new idea for a song. For me, one of those places is my parents’ mini farm in the outskirts of Hillsborough, NC. It’s a beautiful property: […]
Dear blog reader, I hope you’ll forgive my long blogging absence. If you get my newsletter, you know that I had a personnel change in my band. The last few weeks were consumed by guitarist auditions and practicing. But things are getting back to normal now, and I have another video to share. Here I […]
If you went to one of the first few shows Mark and I played, you’ll remember that we played a few Russian covers. I studied Russian in college and lived in Russia for almost a year, and I am majorly obsessed with Russian rock music. Kino, Nochniye Snaiperi, Akvarium … I love them all. But […]