Micah Wins a Mardi Gras Jazz Contest!

The local music store was hosting a Mardi Gras/Jazz music contest where they said anyone could upload themselves playing some jazz music to their webpage and they would pick one of the entries to win a $100 gift certificate to their store.  

Well, Micah was in the Jazz Band at school, and he had been learning how to improvise from his guitar teacher somewhat, so we had him play some of his jazz music from school and improvise a little bit and submitted his video to the contest.

Then he WON!  Wooohoooo!  Micah was surprised, but we sure were happy about winning that gift certificate!  We went right out to use some of it to buy a new nicer microphone so Micah can sing better with his guitar.

Here is his jazz video that won:

Talent Show for Micah

Micah joined his younger sister and brother this last week to perform in a talent show.  Micah played and sang to Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now".

He did great considering our microphone was a little bit lousy and broken off!

I'm Looking Through You

Micah, now 12 years old, just keeps getting better and better.  

One thing that has been steadily improving is his vocals.  While a lot of the time it has been difficult to hear Micah sing over his guitar without a microphone, now he has learned how to better project his voice.  

His latest song is yet another great Beatles classic,

"I'm Looking Through You":

            

We think this one is pretty awesome.

Micah's 12 Year Old Guitar Photo Shoot

For Micah's 12th birthday, he went all out with a nice photo shoot with his guitars.

Some classy ones with a shirt and tie, and yet also some fun ones.

           

Even one without his glasses for all the girls to get a good look at his eyes!

Last Song as an 11 Year Old

Micah was getting older.  Although he still loved building awesome lego creations, he wasn't a little boy anymore.  He was about to turn 12!  

So, we decided to get one last song recorded as an 11 year old.  

Here is The Beatles "Here Comes the Sun":

               

This song is supposed to be played with a capo, but it made the pitch a little too high (or rather too low) for Micah's voice range, so we opted to leave it off.