Inga Roberts of The Parlour Suite on Music and Arts Education

How did you get into making music, and how did arts education (or lack thereof) affect you and your music?

Music just happened on us. I love it! Couldn’t live without doing it… just kind of comes out. As for composing for a group, I think that Joel, Leah,and myself add something unique. Joel is a self taught guitar player, Leah has a choral/folk vocal background, and I have a classical past. We’ve been writing since we can remember; I remember composing songs on the paddle boat at the cabin, for my grandma Ruth – silly stuff. “You need to write that down,” she would say… and now I am. We haven’t gone to college and gotten a degree in music making, but we have learned a lot from private lessons – and just from playing with each other. There are so many resources to learn music – be it listening to a CD and truly hearing the elements or taking private lessons from an instructor.

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