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Michelle recounts a European club tour somewhere back around 2003

stopping in Greece, Italy, Spain, eastern Europe, and Russia.

Part 1: It’s not all about the gig

Naples, Italy- there’s the sea and the mountains and the greenery and the food.  Dinner began with prosciutto, parma ham, fresh mozzarella, followed by squid with garlic and olive oil, then roasted peppers, zucchini, eggplant, all delicious (well I didn’t actually eat the squid, but everything else).  Next came huge bowls of pasta, linguine vongole, or Pomodoro and that was just the main course.  The second course was meat, fish, or chicken, which I didn’t stay for because I was stuffed.

The second day in Italy, it’s all about the food.  The hospitality and the food here could make you cry, unbelievable.  Florence, dinner began with ziti in Pomodoro sauce, Tuscan bread salad then steamed vegetables,  roasted peppers, zucchini, eggplant, roasted potatoes with rosemary, tray after tray of food kept coming out of the kitchen all cooked by Anna, your typical Italian grandmother, and let me tell you there would be hell to pay if you did not “mangia”, after the roasted peppers came roasted turkey, then spinach quiche.  Dessert was a delicious custardy creation served with espresso.  I’ve got to come here for a month to learn how to cook, or maybe just to eat

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March 2013 SoundGirls.Org in the Community

SoundGirls.Org joined ​Step Up Women’s Network last week to host a career day “Behind the Scenes of Music Industry” at the Rox. Step Up Women’s Network is a non-profit that works to empower teen girls from under-resourced communities to become confident, college-bound, and career-ready. The afternoon explored the fields of Professional Audio and Show Production and was joined by Pearl Jam monitor engineer and co-founder of SoundGirls.Org Karrie Keyes, Rat Sound’s Daniella Peters, Exec producer of the documentary Foo Fighters: Back and Forth, Jeanne Elfant Festa, and sound engineer at the Whiskey a Go Go Ruby Zamora. Nikki Reed actress, producer, and songwriter joined in the group discussions and invited the girls to watch sound check for the evenings performance. Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald performed songs from their new album for an evening benefit concert for Step Up Women’s Network. (more…)

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