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CHILLFILTR Announcements. - What Have We Learned So Far?
CHILLFILTR Announcements. - What Have We Learned So Far?

If anyone tells you that music isnt good anymore, just go ahead and punch them in the mouth.

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Say Their Names. - A Tribute to Black Lives Matter
Say Their Names. - A Tribute to Black Lives Matter

I think of the parents, the children, the communities. We have to do better. This has to stop. End police violence, now.

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Alchemy in Ashland, Oregon: Annual Dickens Feast Since 1982 Features 6 Delicious Courses and Music by the Winchester Singers.
Alchemy in Ashland, Oregon: Annual Dickens Feast Since 1982 Features 6 Delicious Courses and Music by the Winchester Singers.

We love supporting this holiday tradition which began in 1982 and features Santa, Scrooge, and the Winchester Singers.

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Ashland, Oregon: Local Songwriter Krister Axel Gets a Moment in the Spotlight
Ashland, Oregon: Local Songwriter Krister Axel Gets a Moment in the Spotlight

Its been 15 years since I recorded Georgia Rain, and 12 years since I recorded Something Beautiful, which have turned out to be my top tracks since they got put on the Netflix release of Friday Night Lights years ago.

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In Search of Organic Discovery. - Bringing Listeners Together with Music that Moves Them.
In Search of Organic Discovery. - Bringing Listeners Together with Music that Moves Them.

If you want to hand-off the process of marketing yourself because it feels like a hard problem to solve - not because you have too much success, but too little - then you are guaranteeing yourself a bunch of bad choices.

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Put It in the Cloud. - How a Retired Web Engineer Built a Worldwide Indie Music Network in Less than 2 Years
Put It in the Cloud. - How a Retired Web Engineer Built a Worldwide Indie Music Network in Less than 2 Years

The truth is, I am pulling together my main 3 skill sets, and it is turning out to be very synergistic. I am a poet, first; that was always the calling for adolescent me. Later in life, I fell in love with music, and I just figured out today that Ive been playing piano for 33 years.

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My only surviving test from Composition school
My only surviving test from Composition school

My teacher had a thing for Copeland and Bartok. They were kind of a big deal.

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This is the best I have ever looked on TV.
This is the best I have ever looked on TV.

Remember me thusly when I am at the pearly gates.

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Art is truth.