Dear Diary – 
Today it snowed.
Totally amazing.

Although my flight was canceled, I got to enjoy hours upon hours of fluffy stuff. I grew up in North Carolina, where it was a rare but real thrill to see something opaque fall from the sky. School closed and hot chocolate emerged from somewhere in the back of the cabinet.

The real upside to this afternoon’s flight cancellation was getting to catch QQQ and the janus trio (my first time for both) tonight at Galapagos. Some concerts just really make me happy about Music. I’ll leave it there.

Two bits of today’s snowday soundtrack >>

Lena Willemark is a Swedish singer/fiddler (from Dalarna) whose music always brings me back to the cold, icy months I spent in a very small town in Sweden, about halfway up the coast, in 2004. Here is Mikkelkwenn, from Älvdalens elektriska >

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And Byrd’s Ne Irascaris (beginning here by the Tallis Scholars) is one of my favorite motets from late nights singing in the compline loft of Christ Church New Haven.

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