"Write about what you know and are passionate about!" - For Colleen

 McSpirit, that topic is music.

 As a former community newspaper editor, Colleen has covered a variety of topics from politics to the environment to sports. She also published

her own attachment parenting magazine, The Mother is Me. While music has always been an important part of her life, Colleen has found herself

 writing very little about music...until now!

 In February 2008 she got the opportunity to cover the "Deadheads for

Obama" press conference. She was hooked! She started writing more stories about the jam band scene while still covering municipal council meetings for a local newspaper and working as an English professor at a community college.

 It has been a dream of hers to write stories on musicians for an outlet

 that is as varied as she is.  Life Thru Music is that outlet. While only

 certain music moves her soul, there is little music that doesn't get her

 up and dancing. You can find her dancing to everything from Les Paul to

 Pink to The Grateful Dead to The Who to Joe Purdy.

 Find out about the music that makes Colleen dance and moves her soul

 here at Life Thru Music!

Growing up in the Piedmont of North Carolina, contributor Bob Bowser’s first musical experiences were the bluegrass, country, and  gospel native to the area.  At the age of ten, his local Public Television station broadcast the movie Woodstock, and his love for rock-and-roll was born.  Chasing first the Grateful Dead, and later Bob Dylan, across the country developed in Bob the twin passions of travel and seeing live music.  Today he enjoys a wide variety of other musical genres, including jazz, classical, folk, and world music. 

Still living in North Carolina, Bob is a single dad to Sierra, age 8 (her favorite artists are Ryan Adams and Hannah Montana) and Joey, age 6 (Bruce Springsteen).  When not at shows, he enjoys reading, chess, sitting on his porch, and traveling to New Jersey to eat in a diner.  He tells truck drivers where to go to keep the lights turned on.