Tisha is Treble!

Hi everyone!! We have finally reached the last destination of our music culture trip and I just wanted to say I had the time of my life traveling with you and I hope I gave you an experience like no other. Can you believe we went from North America to South America, Middle East, and Korea in four weeks? This isn't goodbye yet as we have one more country to travel to: New Zealand, to learn about the Maori people. I really wanted to go over every aspect about the Maori people and the culture but that would result in this blog to never end, haha! So I decided to talk about the traditional Maori instruments and the Haka. Let's see what we have discovered on this last trip!   Overview: The Maori are known as the tangata whenua, which translates to ‘people of the land’ of New Zealand. Their history started when they migrated on canoes from Hawaiki to New Zealand in the fourteenth century. They were in isolation to avoid external contact from the outside but that was all interrupted i...

Hi everyone!! For this blog entry, I chose to interview someone who's my heart and soul, which happens to be my very own mother, Juleen Hainrick. My mother was born on a small island called Pohnpei located in Micronesia. She is the fifth child out of eight so you can only imagine how chaotic her life has been growing up. The stories she would tell me about her life were endless but I never heard her talk about anything music related. It made me wonder if music even existed in Micronesia at all. I was curious to see if this was the case and thank God it wasn’t otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a blog at all (just kidding).  One of the earliest memories of music my mother remembers was classic country;  Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Johnny Cash. She said that grandma would play these on the radio when they would do chores and my mother fell in love with country music since. She also claims Grease as one of her first memories. Her and her sisters would watch the movie on repe...