7 Days…
May 22nd A week from today we’ll be waking up in Las Vegas, which is nicely equidistant to Rio Rico, having driven 8-9 hours the day before. I love the […]
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9 days…
Singing all these love songs—songs of yearning, joy, loss—can leave one breathless. Literally. As we worked on Robbie Burns’ “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose,” Maggie’s husband, Luke, […]
13 days to go
May 16th Met at my house, once again with Mother, who seems to be moving beyond the sorrow that gets created by the pretty music, and who is beginning to […]
15 days to go…
May 15th Countdown: In two weeks we’ll be driving through Nevada, heading towards the Arizona state line… Today I worked a lot on my garden, which lovely as it is, […]
16 days to go…
May 13th & 14th Maggie, in reference to a little riff I’m offering on the mandolin break on “When The Sun Goes Down in the Sky,” suggested that as I […]
Meet Sands Hall
Sands Hall has been playing guitar and writing songs since she was 14, when, as a birthday present, her father purchased, for $150 from a hard-up student at UC Berkeley, […]
May 12 — 18 days to go…
Countdown, 18 Days: Today we gathered in my living room: music stands and guitar stands, Maggie’s glittering accordion and her two guitars—one in standard tuning, the other tuned to a […]
May 11 — 19 days to go…
Countdown: 19 Days to the Great Water Dragon Southwest Tour Actually, 17 days to take-off, May 28th, when we’ll drive two days to Rio Rico, AZ, where on the 30th […]
Water Dragons (Hall & McKaig) Southwest tour
What do dragons, water, cacti, theater, guitars, accordions and mandolins have in common? Two talented women, Sands Hall and Maggie McKaig. Both were born under the Chinese astrological sign of the dragon—specifically, the water dragon. Sands plays guitar […]
Meet Maggie McKaig
Maggie McKaig’s theater life has involved writing and directing over 60 middle and high school productions, many of them musical, but her main artistic focus has been playing and writing […]