Archive for August, 2008

My heroes have always been cowboys (but none so much as Willie)

Posted on August 30, 2008. Filed under: Willie Nelson, music | Tags: Concert, concert review, country, Emily Henke, guitar, live concert, Marymore, Marymore Park Concert, music, On the Road Again, Redmond, Seattle, singer, Trigger Jr, Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson is my hero |

Last night I stood within twenty feet of one of my heroes.
It was epic. If you can get tickets to Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” tour, buy them now. You will not regret it. I saw him with my family last night in Marymore Park in Redmond, Washington. The man is 75 years old, [...]

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The Gospel Truth

Posted on August 25, 2008. Filed under: Singing, music | Tags: Covers, Emily Henke, Gospel |

I don’t play any instruments (except my vocal cords). I took piano lessons from second through fifth grade, hated it, and quit as soon as I was old enough to develop a somewhat structured argument about why I would never need to know how to play the piano.
Oops.
So here I am, a singer with no [...]

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And so it begins…

Posted on August 24, 2008. Filed under: Singing, music | Tags: Emily Henke, Gimme the Mike, guitar, guitar lessons, Lewis & Clark College, music, Portland, Vocalist seeks band |

Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music within them.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Word.
Welcome to my new blog. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Emily Henke. I’m 21, from Seattle, a senior Spanish Major at Lewis & Clark College, and a singer. I have always loved to sing and have [...]

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