My first blog – on my new website. Firstly, thank you to Loren Kielly at Mileonedigital ( https://www.mileonedigital.com ). Loren designed the site and gave me such great advice on what’s necessary, not necessary, colours, font, content and so much more. A big thank you to MusicNL for assistance with this venture. Part of the reason for the site is to get my original music online and presented, so that others, who are interested, can access it and play my music. With that in mind, and in this Covid time, I am especially happy to provide mp3s for my percussion and piano works, so that those who are interested in learning them can play along with tracks that I developed. In essence “music minus one/interactive” tracks are available for many of my compositions. For those who are planning to perform them with other musicians in the future, they can at least play along with the tracks until it is safe to be in the same room rehearsing with others. I have enjoyed making music with friends online, though it isn’t nearly the same experience live. However, it’s been great to collaborate with Andrea Koziol (my long time friend and collaborator, and an incredible singer and songwriter), Ana Luisa Ramos, Renee Antle, Julia Halfyard, Abra Whitney and Bruce Alcock (thanks for asking me to write the music for the Pay Pal commercial!). It has also been great being in contact with friends and colleagues across the country, many of whom have been a tremendous inspiration during this challenging time. For example, Darrin Oehlerking who teaches at the University of Regina and Jason Caslor who teaches at Arizona State University (and others) have been a guiding force with regard to teaching wind ensemble in the fall. What am I going to do – well, I think Bandlab.com is going to help (check it out). And my colleagues at Memorial University have been super inspiring to me. Everyone is working really hard to make the fall a special experience for our students. I have a few fun projects upcoming. I am a little bit of editing to finish on a wind ensemble piece and hoping for publication some time soon. Fingers crossed for a couple of fall concerts (New Found Music at MUN and Jazz East Big Band), and more songwriting with Andrea Koziol. Today I recorded an old chestnut – “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”. Don’t forget – I’m not a singer, but I do love singing an old standard. https://soundcloud.com/bill-brennan/i-wonder-whos-kissing-her-now?fbclid=IwAR3qN3g6iRAaRrSlCwg_APCR3IbRxSwLmI-7OLg5Slhg1QFH3f-f1lRFwLc Enjoy the site. Stay safe all. Bill