Coffee Talk: Spill the Beans! with Katie McCarthy

Alright we're trying something new on 60 beans today!  Here's a guest interview of a good friend of mine, Katie McCarthy, who is one of the coolest and cutest horn players you'll ever meet. Katie lives with her husband Benjamin in Chicago, where they have lately been taking further steps into the world of coffee aficionados (cofficionados?). Read about her history with coffee after the jump! 

some Banff photos

This blog has been sadly ignored for awhile. There is an effort afoot to change that! Here's a start -- some photos from around Banff, where I'm finishing up the second of 5 weeks as a member of the musicians in residence program. That means I'm holed up in a little studio hut most of each day working on Bach. This is my first time in Canada; it's so beautiful here! That elk in the first photo just sort of wanders around the campus, by the way. And that castle-type building in the bottom two photos houses the Banff upper hot springs, just a short walk away!