Ha Ha Da Vinci: Tour Day... Have Lost Count!!
This week, I found myself driving from Seattle to Montana along I-90 West with one E flat sousaphone in my trunk, and then - just 72...
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Phina Pipia
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Finally... At Celebration Barn!
Spent a magical week a Celebration Barn in Maine with the incredible Avner Eisenberg, workshopping Ha Ha Da Vinci and studying the...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 39: Beyond Tired
Just a wee article here at 12:23 am EDT on the note of complete exhaustion. I am 100% pooped, and so excited to climb into bed. The kind...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 38: All Grown Up
Opened the show in Montreal yesterday, and it is well into its 20s... 21 or 23? I need to go back and count. But it's finally out of the...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 4
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 33: A Tuba in Montreal!
When you walk down the street with a tuba in Montreal, people stop you and ask you to be in their brass bands. When you walk down the...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 4
- 2 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 25: Orlando!
A brief look at the Orlando stop on the 2023 Ha Ha Da Vinci tour
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Phina Pipia
- May 6
- 3 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 9: In the Footsteps of...
I write this from the living room floor, surrounded by jumping sheep and shadow screens, half a tuba lantern and two deconstructed trees....
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Phina Pipia
- May 6
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 8: Rest Required
After a pit stop in sleepy Abilene, Kansas (where we ate delicious breakfast burritos in the sun outside our motel, gazed at the world's...
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Phina Pipia
- May 3
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 6: On the Road!
It's been a whirlwind few days - with ton of talking, laughing, driving, climbing, listening to stories, getting a tooth ache, recovering...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 1: Lift Off!
What a day! Took off this morning for 4 months of Ha Ha Da Vinci shows across the US and Canada. The car is absolutely overflowing with...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 27
- 2 min
On the Brink of Adventure
Photo Credit: Jason Squire So stoked to be writing this from my car as the sun sets, en route to some of my all-time favorite cities, and...
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Phina Pipia
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Wading Into the Deep
Photo by Jason Squire I love this photo of my tuba lantern caught cattywampus, swinging wayyy off to the side. This photo shoot was many...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Is There a Finish Line?
Someone once told me that Handel wrote the Messiah in under four weeks. This is something I console myself with anytime I’m under...
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Phina Pipia
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
The Thing I Thought I Couldn't Do
My sister learned to read music before she learned to read books, and for a lot of years, she was the one who could sit down at the piano...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Today Today… In LA.
Do you ever find yourself yearning for a challenge? Wanting to push yourself out of your own comfort zone… to see what will happen?...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 12, 2021
- 1 min
Tuba Lantern
Wouldn’t it bee cool if a lantern hung from your tuba bell, and lit your way in the dark? This week I started making this happen. Tuba...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Pooping Art & the Scaffolding of Dreams
Eddie Izzard says in his autobiography that he plans career moves and creative projects by thinking of the end result, and then working...
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Phina Pipia
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
Circle of Sound
This week I played for people. Real people. In-the-flesh, living-breathing people who sat and listened and laughed and clapped. Some...
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Phina Pipia
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
The long road home… and stepping back into my own shoes
This week was a travel week, in more ways than one. I moved out of the beautiful outpost where I spent the past 10 months. … sneaking...
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Phina Pipia
- May 9, 2021
- 2 min
On the cusp of live... and packing the AMAZING SUITCASE.
They say that if you have unresolved issues, they can create an emotional weight that becomes “baggage”. But I like to think that, on the...
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