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    Recommended Reads: Women's History Month Edition 3
    epjazzgirls
    • Mar 5, 2021
    • 5 min

    Recommended Reads: Women's History Month Edition 3

    By: Amanda Ekery Happy Women’s History Month! I’m happy to share some exciting books I’ve recently read that have shaped new thoughts and...
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    Fungi, Social Media, & an Idea
    epjazzgirls
    • Nov 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Fungi, Social Media, & an Idea

    By: Amanda Ekery Over the past few months I’ve been really interested in fungi – how they decompose material, how they connect plants...
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    Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition 2
    epjazzgirls
    • Mar 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition 2

    By: Amanda Ekery During Women’s History Month read something new, something exciting, and something that will make you think! Below are...
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    Intentions for the New Year
    epjazzgirls
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    Intentions for the New Year

    By: Amanda Ekery With the start of the New Year comes new plans, ideas, hopes, and goals. It seems everyone has been posting their...
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    Bringing Awareness into Our Creative Lives
    epjazzgirls
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Bringing Awareness into Our Creative Lives

    By: Dr. Joyce Hsu This is the time of the semester where everyone is swamped by multiple responsibilities – marching band, rehearsals for...
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    Organizing Change: Starting the Women in Jazz Initiative at UNT
    epjazzgirls
    • Sep 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    Organizing Change: Starting the Women in Jazz Initiative at UNT

    By: Jess Goodrich Within the past year, a few colleagues and I, with the help of the chair of the University of North Texas’s jazz...
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    Military Band Life
    epjazzgirls
    • Aug 10, 2019
    • 5 min

    Military Band Life

    By: Ally Hany Albrecht A few months ago, I traveled to New York to play with the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. I was hanging around backstage at...
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    Year Two in the Books
    epjazzgirls
    • Jul 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Year Two in the Books

    By Amanda Ekery El Paso Jazz Girls 2019 just wrapped up and I’ve been recalling all of the wonderful ideas, collaborations,...
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    Summer Playlists: Night and Day
    epjazzgirls
    • May 14, 2019
    • 5 min

    Summer Playlists: Night and Day

    By: Gabby Byrd As you probably well know, Texas doesn't exactly experience regular "seasons"; still, I've come to find that most people...
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    Sitting With It: Thoughts on Inspiration & Creativity
    epjazzgirls
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Sitting With It: Thoughts on Inspiration & Creativity

    By: Melissa Weikart Inspiration is a strange concept. People inspire, events inspire, art inspires, the way the sun peeks out from behind...
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    Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition
    epjazzgirls
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 4 min

    Recommended Reads: Women’s History Month Edition

    By: Amanda Ekery This Women’s History Month is a great time to read some wonderful books about music, adventure, civil rights, and more!...
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    Taking the Lead: Leadership as a Female Musician
    epjazzgirls
    • Jan 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    Taking the Lead: Leadership as a Female Musician

    By Raychel Taylor My role as a woman in music is a culmination of my experiences as a performing musician, music educator, and arts...
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    Music Scholarship is Fun!
    epjazzgirls
    • Dec 1, 2018
    • 6 min

    Music Scholarship is Fun!

    By Hannah Grantham Why do we study music? Have you ever asked the question, "I wonder why they wrote that" while listening to music? Did...
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    All-State Audition Advice: You've Got This!
    epjazzgirls
    • Sep 17, 2018
    • 4 min

    All-State Audition Advice: You've Got This!

    By: Grace Ward My decision to audition for TMEA All-State Jazz was one made on a whim. It was the result of me thinking “Surely it can’t...
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    Getting Started - El Paso Jazz Girls' Inaugural Clinic
    epjazzgirls
    • Jul 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Getting Started - El Paso Jazz Girls' Inaugural Clinic

    By: Amanda Ekery I started planning for El Paso Jazz Girls on April 2, 2018. I remember the date because a peer posted a sexist comment...
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