Buffalo Creative Music Group

Leanne Darling

After many years of playing classical music professionally I fell in love with improvising. Several years ago, I became involved with an organization called Music for People (https://www.musicforpeople.org/wp/). It's not a socialist edict ;) but rather an organization dedicated to music improvisation as a means of self expression. What does that mean? It means that culturally for us music is an art that intimidates everyone, that we believe you have to be an "expert" to be any good at it. Anyone can create art (draw, paint, recite poetry etc.) but somehow not sing a song, pound out a rhythm. I don't believe this to be true. I feel we are doing ourselves a great disservice to deny ourselves access to music, when it can be a really fun means to express ourselves and connect to one another. It can be a great way for someone curious about studying music to get their feet wet, and equally valuable to the seasoned musician stuck in a rut of expectation and judgement to free oneself and tru

https://www.meetup.com/buffalo-creative-music-group/