Lead Vocals
Jamie is cursed with an eye and ear for proper grammar. You know people like this, right? So – her profile will be loaded with all sorts of grammatical mistakes just to irritate her (starting… now!) Plus, it’s easier this way than it would be to write in a way that we’d be held accountable for. So bear with us.
Now what do you want to know about Jamie? Well, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse with a degree in Music Education with a choral and general music emphasis. Which means she will always be teased about not having a real major. And can you blame us? Playing next to bandmates with degrees in Organic Chemistry and engineering, it's really not too hard to do. Esprechen-zie “outshined”? Oh, yeah, that, reminds, me, did you know Jamie speaks in German? Not all the time, ‘cause that’d be like having Nena in your band, but I should say, only some of the time. But where was I? That’s right...she teaches elementary and middle school general music at a Catholic school in Milwaukee now that she is finished with college…which if she went to school to teach, and now teaches at a school, can you say she’s finished school, ever?
Of course, Jamie’s love of teaching stems from the years she has been spending teaching Irish dance in La Crosse and Milwaukee. If you’ve seen our shows recently, you know that Jamie is plenty capable in this field, having taken lessons for nine years, and performed with Trinity Irish Dancers and Glencastle Irish Dancers out of Milwaukee. To keep her dancing skills at peak, she counts her steps when she walks. I wish I was kidding about that. Yeah, she’s got some OCD in her – she will let you know (incessantly) when the time on the clock is a “math problem.” For example, 2:46 is a math problem, since 2 + 4 = 6). And that’s not her only OCD charm – she also alphabetizes all her DVD’s she owns or lives with. And she goes insane if you mix them up. Completely ballistical. I suggest swapping the discs and cases in addition to mixing up the order of them, so she completely loses it. But really, what do you expect of someone who says “I like analyzing music for fun. Tonicizations are my favorite.”
What else? Her favorite letter is “L” – it might not be readily apparent, but words containing L, or a double L in particular, most often tend to be things she adores. For example she loves Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Krall. Her favorite TV show is I Love Lucy,and her cell phone ringtone is the I Love Lucy theme song. And the list goes on. It’s a good thing we already had a band name before Jamie joined us, or we could have ended up being dubbed “Random Mall.”
And now we return you to your regularly scheduled, good-grammar-containing website.
