by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 17, 2024 | Musings, Studio
In May of 2021, while away for a birthday weekend far out of the city with a long-time friend and our families, I found myself bouncing some ideas off her over an early-morning cup of coffee on a farmhouse “stoep”. I was facing a rather painful ending in my own life,...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 17, 2024 | Musicians, Musings
I imagine that at occasions where a group of musicians are playing background music, the people in the crowd listen to the music emanating from the ensemble and are mostly appreciative of the skill that it has taken to learn or read the notes…or sometimes even of the...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 17, 2024 | inhouse
I remember that by the spring of 2019, South African hearts were dark. The news was filled with grim accounts of escalating violence and the post office murder that took place in Cape Town during August of that year still stands out for me as the story that left many...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | Mar 15, 2024 | Musicians, Musings
As a musician who has been playing various gigs for years, I have had the privilege of adding music to all the special moments and occasions that punctuate people’s lives. It is seldom that communities around the world gather for these celebrations without music,...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | Oct 12, 2023 | Musicians
The joy of arriving hours early for a show (because you’re terrified of the traffic between Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and having time to indulge in “the Joy of Small Things”- reading in the green room being one of mine. 2 more shows of David Kramer’s “Ver in die...
