THRIVING 2020

It's the year of the rat.

Happy new year! You may be glad to hear that there are 13 months on the lunar calendar for 2020 — one more month to do all that you'd like.

If you're in Southern California — did you feel the two earthquakes this week? It makes me think I really ought to

prepare for the big one

.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ...

I've been working on this video since at least the summer of 2018 and it's finally done/good enough to share! Someone asked on YouTube if it's all me or different people 😆 Yes, it's me x12.

Beyond Talent

The book for classical and jazz musicians looking to carve out a successful musical career from my mentor/friend/former boss/eccentric aunt Angela is perfect for music school students/graduates! The third edition just came out from Oxford University Press and you might catch a little quote from me in there 🤓 Check out Angela's Monday Bytes emails too — they've been a steady source of encouragement for me.

The album slogan JOYCE FOR THRIVING 2020 came about because any time the line “I’m for thriving” in

the raisin song

came up, Ross would turn to me and go “Joyce for Thriving 2020” (cameo in the

lyric video

) and we’d do a fist bump. Here's to a year of thriving for us all 🤜🏻🤛🏼

We now reside in the future 🤖