Live from The Lost Paddy Nashville
Live From Nashville
This is the full video from my performance of “Never Give Up” from that Lost Paddy on October 21, 2024.
Quick Link: Youtube
This is the full video from my performance of “Never Give Up” from that Lost Paddy on October 21, 2024.
Quick Link: Youtube
So excited to announce the release of my first full length album FIRE.
FIRE is about facing the real things in life: how we feel and how we move forward. It is emotionally raw and a little of a mixed genre retro throwback
Listen to the album anywhere you listen to music or preview the album here.
Quick Links: Spotify & Apple Music
So excited to announce the release of my new single “Slow Down” in anticipation of my full album release in late October.
This song is not about having a false sense of what it means to be happy- not the fake stuff. Its about taking a moment to be still enough to know what you really need. And to learn to say No and Yes more definitely. Life is busy. It’s not saying don’t live… its saying choose who you are going to be and take ownership of your life.
“Slow Down” can be hear anywhere you listen to music including Spotify and Apple Music.
My new single “Ghosts” was released today everywhere you get your music!
Quick Links: Spotify and Apple Music
This song was co-written by Hannah Miller and produced here in Nashville by Stephen Leiweke at Lackland Studios.
The idea for Ghosts came to me in a dream. The dream was of a big house with lots of old abandoned rooms: various sports and music, a big kitchen… but all of it old from the 80s and in disrepair.
When we’re dreaming about houses, I have come to understand that it symbolizes a part of yourself. Your house. I took it to mean that when something in a house is abandoned it means that parts of yourself have been abandoned as well. This house I dreamt about was so very cool. But it needed attention. Updating. The ghosts in the house were flickering the lights and getting trying to create attention.
I woke up and wrote down the dream. Hannah Miller and I turned it into the song about a week later!
ARTICLE LINK – Music Above All
Santa Clara University (my undergraduate alma mater) kindly interviewed and wrote this article about my being the recipient of the inaugural Avivo award. Avivo is a national organization dedicated to cultivating courage, creativity, and authenticity in music education.
The article spans the scope of what it was like for me entering college as both a soccer player for a top 5 NCAA DI school and a declared music major at the same time. They couldn’t have done me better justice, they got it exactly.
Read the full article at Santa Clara Magazine here.
LINK – Erin Pearson’s Zazzle Shop
Just in time for the holidays! I have opened a zazzle shop online to showcase my original line drawings on goods available for purchase.
There are a wide range of products from mugs and tote bags, to seasonal paper goods, to full scale wall art. A little something for everyone.
Please visit my shop here.
ARTICLE LINK – AVIVO PRIZE 2022
I am honored to be the inaugural recipient of the Avivo prize. Avivo is a national non-profit organization dedicated to courage, creativity, and authenticity in music education.
Read the full article here.
EVA CASSIDY – SONGBIRD
12 of 12 my most formative albums. This was a fun challenge. Today’s album is Eva Cassidy’s Songbird. I love her for so many reasons, including her refusal to only do one genre, her mad guitar skills and that oh so expressive vocal phrasing. 🥰. Many of the songs from this album are my Eva influenced versions, even in my own set list.
One thing to note about Eva Cassidy is that she died of cancer in her early 30s and she was largely unknown until after her death. That to me, is probably just as tragic as a person being taken too early!
EVITA (movie soundtrack) – ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & TIM RICE, ft. MADONNA
For my #11 of 12 most influential albums I’m going with the Evita soundtrack, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice with the Madonna performances. I knew Webber & Rice’s music before this movie/album, but particularly my obsession with baselines and orchestration and creative application to music attached to film/acting/pop.
Also, don’t hate me- but I didn’t fully appreciate Madonna or begin to understand her work until she did this project. Then I dug into her music. The mixing of genres and personalities, the mash up of energy and types of sound articulations – to me – makes this amazing in the final product. Much the way I do my life. I like a solid mix of all that is different. Makes the best colors.
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS – DANNY ELFMAN
10 of my 12 most influential albums I’d have to say is Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas score to the Tim Burton film.
I have to admit, that I NEVER saw this movie until 3 years ago. And when I did. I watched and listened until this album is in my DNA.
I have listened to this score a million times since then, the magic of Danny Elfman just blows my mind and is the future reference track for the musicals floating around in my mind. Just GENIUS. This whole score causes me instant laugher, the serious nature of the score combined with these insane characters and dramatic lyrics. Instant happiness.