Moon Mami Writes

Today was a wonderfully busy day as I ran around handling things to make today a memorable birthday for my baby girl who turned six today. In between handling "Mommy business" I threw in a rehearsal with musician Gary Young for the upcoming shows we have in October. First and foremost, Gary is no joke when it comes to talented artist. He has been a staple in the book tour we have for the book Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul, performing with my former bandmate, vocalist Quineice Clarkson during acoustic sets and performing with as bandleader of his own band when we take the show to our favorite spot the Potter's House. Gary plays multiple instruments and is basically self-taught with strong songwriting and charting skills. His ear is superb. Check out his work HERE . We worked on a set list today but spent a lot of time catching up and just chatting like we used to do when we were in college together at UMBC. Even back then while he studied engineering, I re...

I will be performing at the Green Festival on Oct. 10 @ 11am as the opening act for the event. I will be performing original and cover tunes with the wonderful musician Gary Young who will perform vocally with me as well as accompany on guitar. Looking forward to this performance and will definitely have on hand copies of Liberated Muse Volume I:How I Freed My Soul on hand to sell. Hope you can make it out! I came out to the Green Festival last year and enjoyed myself with my family. I got the wonderful henna tattoo below done and may get something similar done as part of my costuming for the Oct. 10th show.

The book is finally available for purchase at http://www.outskirtspress.com/LiberatedMuse Muse We had so many great things happen this past weekend. How fitting that our celebrations for the book kicked off on June 19-- known as Juneteenth! A book about freedom kicking off on Juneteenth. Deep. Check out some of the photos and video from this past weekend. Special thanks to all o f the artists who performed: Gary Young, Quineice Clarkson, Anonamas and Infinite Soul Music, Dee Stone and Teisha Marie. Props to the writers from the book who performed their pieces: Farah Lawal, Margaux Delotte-Bennett and Maureen Mulima. You were smashing! None of the weekend's festivities would have been possible without our volunteers who worked as servers during our gig at the Potter's House in DC: Susan, Le'Nia, Stephan and Lindsey! We appreciate you immensley! Below is some footage, but more is to come: Gary Young and Quineice Clarkson @ the Artomatic show Our wonderful audience @ the Ar...