Connie Brannock is a Blues Force of Nature! She took the Tucson music scene by storm after she retired from the Army National Guard as Command Sergeant Major. Connie says, “A pivotal moment for me was my decision to enlist in the US Army. My friends thought I was nuts, yet the military helped me find and nurture my best self. Twenty-two years later, that best self danced into Tucson, where I live and play today.” She is now the bandleader of The Little House of Funk and its many variations that play frequently around town.
But she is also a woman of many other talents, too. In this show we talk about a book she has come out with that has the songs from a children’s album that she recorded in 2020 called Snorts and Rattles – Songs of the Desert Southwest. The book is full of the poetic lyrics about creatures that live in our desert.
Penelope Starr, author of Desert Haven, a novel in linked stories, is also the author of the nonfiction book, The Radical Act of Community...
Dee played in the DuPage Symphony Orchestra in Chicago. She moved to SaddleBrooke in 2006. She started taking lessons here in Tucson from Dennis...
For nearly three decades, Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) has been observed nationally in October as an opportunity to bring light to the issue...
