Nedje

About a month ago, maybe a little longer now, I met a fun lady at the pool. She was swimming laps, punching this cool yellow lap tracker after each lap. When she finished swimming, I asked her about her cool tool, thus striking up a friendship with Nedje. I learned she was from Maryland, visiting here for a couple of months to take time for herself- losing weight and exercising. I was excited to learn her undergraduate and Masters degrees were in vocal performance and that she taught voice and "The Influence of African American Culture on American Music" at her local college in Maryland. I told her about our Keynote group (the women's singing group I'm in and am in charge of). I told her we were singing two spirituals and two jazz pieces for our concert in May and asked if she would come and help us be "less Mormon and less white" when we sing them. She agreed. So, for the past couple of weeks, Nedje has joined our rehearsals and given us a master class. It has been so fun. In exchange, we gave Nedje a gift bag of goodies, including a "Mormon" hymnbook and a Book of Mormon. She promised she would read it. Nedje left to go back to Maryland this week. She promised to keep in touch.

Thanks, Nedje! It was fun!