Album Notes

3 Cheers For Pooh! got its start from the aged and yellowed music pages tucked in the piano bench of a friend of mine. Little did I know when Dorothea asked me to perform some favorite childhood music for her women's group, that less than one year later I'd find myself with this recording! From that first day, I was enchanted with this music and instantly transported to my happy childhood days and hearth-side performances with my sister. I grew up on the poetry of A.A. Milne and recited it often to my parents. To find that music had been written for the poetry all those decades ago was a delightful discovery. To be able to blend two of my favorite things, singing and anything Winnie-the-Pooh, was an opportunity not to be missed! That first performance and the audience response, vaulted me into the world of recording. I love A.A. Milne's poetry and Harold Fraser-Simson did a marvelous job writing music that captures the fun and whimsy of Milne's poetry. I've been a soloist for years but this is the most fun I've ever had!