Title...why

I confess I gave my blog the very vanilla title, "Community Musicians," because I wanted to maximize readership and hope that I can find a community out there of people just like me with which to share thoughts and daily life as "normal people" who are also musicians.

My name is Rebekah, I'm 29 years old, and before any other title, I consider myself to be a musician. I did not major in music in college, but I have gone far with it...I have a background in classical music--my main instrument is the cello, and I also sing and play the piano, and a little guitar. My greatest musical inspiration as a child was Maria Von Trapp, and as an adult, James Taylor (he was a cellist before he was a guitarist).

Seeing as music has not been my primary source of income, most would classify my love of music a "hobby," a title which is horrifying to me. The word "hobby" seems sophomoric--something one would put on a dating website or job application; to me, music is my love, my breath, my expression.

OK, I'm getting carried away. But I recently watched Julie and Julia, the movie based on a woman's blog journal as she cooked her way through the Julia Child cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and was inspired to branch out a little from my normal day to day life, and to begin to write about what I love, and see where it takes me.

This blog is for those who, like me, live ordinary lives, but wish above anything else to be first and foremost a musician. I teach the cello and a little voice, and am working toward building a business out of it. But more than anything I want to share with you the love I have for music, and hope to hear from you as well.