Roots Music!

**Why did I sign up for FYS? I have always been interested in music, and my family listens to a lot of folk and bluegrass. My parents play harmonica, and my grandpa plays accordian and the saw. I love music and thought this would be a great FYS to take.

**If I could take 5 pieces of music...Hmmmm. My favorite songs always change from week to week. I'm not sure if I could ever pick just five! I would probably pick:
Joni Mitchell's "River" (my thoughtful song)
Ben Folds' "The Luckiest" (my love song)
Johnny Cash and June Carter's " 'Cause I love You" (my happy song)
Chris Tomlin's "How Great is Our God" (my worship song)
The Used's "Taste of Ink" (my angry song)

**Music of the older generations...it's hard to say My grandma always loved listening to Johnny Cash and it always cheered her up, but my mom, my brother and I all also listen to Johnny Cash. He might be the kind of music that all generations can listen to. My dad listens to all of the classics...Beetoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and of course, Bob Dylan. I guess I'll just say, my grandpa listens to Frank Yankovic the polka king, and my parents generation listens to Johnny Cash, Dylan and the Beatles.

**I'm not worthy of such a decision! Honestly, I'm not all that patriotic. I feel I would not be in the position to choose a patriotic song for a country to which I feel little attachment. Since this is a completey hypothetical situation and would never happen anyway, I will pick American Idiot by Green Day. That would at least make people think about our country a little less blindly

**I have played piano since I was 6 and took lessons from 6 to 12. I still play for fun on occasion, although my sight reading skills have dropped considerably. I played in competitions and took a 3rd place metal in a state piano competition. I like to play some classical, some Ben Folds, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, etc. My favorite song to play is Edelweiss Glide by F.E. Vanderbeck because my grandma played it when she was young

**I would ask Ms. Blanco if anything positive came from Hurricane Katrina and what that was.