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Hi, I'm Karla and I'm Happy To Be Here. That's me to the right, sitting on the rim of Grand Canyon with my guitar -- I lived there for about 7 years. Music is my passion. I've been playing guitar for about 30 years, and have keyboard, shaker, and jaw harp experience as well -- how many people can claim that??? I love to sing, and I've been singin' since I was born!
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Happy To Be Here currently consists of me, with more than occasional help from my friends, Paul Carr, Alex Perlman and Mike Pryor of the Heartland Country Choir, aka HC2 (link at left: www.heartlandcountrychoir.com).
I've also had the privilege and honor of helping out the Pookie Chicks (they're guyz, by the way -- the extremely talented Bob Gudgel [www.eskimo.com/~bgudgel] and George Marshall, man of a 1000 voices! [www.eskimo.com/~georgem/]).
I also have a blast spontaneously joining in at other open mics and parties! They seem to like it, too.
Check out the links to some of my favorite artists.
I was delighted to play in Juneau at the 26th annual AFF in April 2000 -- the city was bursting at the seams with music, music everywhere! I hope to return and repeat the experience soon. They can be found at http://www.juneau.com/aff/.
My musical influences include Emmylou Harris, Buddy and Julie Miller, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Kasey Chambers, and many others. I tend towards folk and alt.country genres, and confess to occasional twanginess. ;-) (Remember, it's good to have a sense of humor. Twangy is a lot of fun.)
I play guitar, jaw harp, shaker, and occasional keyboards, and sing a low alto to mid-soprano, and a great ear for harmonies. I've sung many covers, many with the songwriters themselves, and have a few of my own songs pushing their way into being. The Heartland Country Choir has been exploring some bluegrass as well as our singer/songwriter repertoire, and I must say, we sound dang fine.
Songwriting is always an adventure, and I've got a few new ones in the works -- good news for my band compatriots over at HC2.
To contact me, to get on my email notification list (never sold or given out!), to offer feedback or other, send an email to karoma@musician.org. Hey... thanks!
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