Guitarist David Sturdevant was nervous about his audience. They were tough. They were unforgiving. And they were five years old.
He was working for the first time as an artist-in-residence in Caren Nelson’s preschool class at Washington School last year. “I was apprehensive at first about working with such young children,” said Sturdevant, who also plays in the jazz and blues-style San Francisco Medicine Ball Band. “I thought they wouldn’t be interested in the music I do; I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep them involved. But it turned out they were very receptive to all sorts of music.”
Back Door Arts Programs (East Bay Express, August 17, 2005)
Those of you who live in the Bay Area probably already know about Emeryville — that weird little city that takes up about 2 square miles on the bay mudflats. People these days know it mostly as the home of Pixar, but the city’s got a long and varied history. For this article, I had a chance to look at the city’s strange and convoluted history, from its start as a collection of slaughteryards, gambling dens and brothels to its current incarnation as home to artists’ lofts and biotech companies.
Emeryville Unplugged (The East Bay Monthly, July 2008)
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