Album Notes

Nancy Cooper Maier grew up in McGehee, Arkansas, a small town in Southeast Arkansas. She enjoyed singing from an early age and began piano lessons when she started school. Music has always been an important part of her life, including her experiences playing trumpet during junior high and high school. She began writing poetry at age sixteen and began guitar around age twenty. After college, she earned a master's degree in poetry from Boston University. She worked several years as a writer, publisher, and editor of the Grapevine newspaper in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She began turning her creativity and poetry into songs about twelve years ago. Nancy performs to benefit various causes she believes in, including music for school children as well as social and environmental justice. She teaches singing, guitar, and piano to all ages in her home studio.She also teaches Not-so-Scary singing, songwriting, and singing and harmony classes at the Nadine Baum Studios, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. The inspiration for her music comes from people she knows, life experiences, and the beauty of nature, much of it from the Ozark Mountains where she lives, and some from places she visits. Places celebrated in this CD include the Buffalo National River of Arkansas ("The Buffalo River"); Lee Creek, Devil's Den State Park, Arkansas ("A Day at Lee Creek"); Beaver Lake, Rogers, Arkansas ("Eagle Dance"); and Lake Tahoe, Nevada ("Blue Lake of My Dreams"). This is her first CD.