Who is?
The music2work2 website is written by Andrew McCluskey and Charlotte Mecum, we’ve been working together since 2001 when we met at the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation and started this site in 2006. Andrew writes the music, Charlotte handles the marketing and between the two of us music2work2 has come alive.
We write about: new music from music2work2, music from similar artists, music from artists and bands that we just dig, interesting people, interesting people who are doing interesting things with music, the occasional movie or media review, in fact anything that might just barely relate to music in some way or another. Neither of us could do this without the other and we have a lot of fun along the way.
I don’t have a musical bone in my body but I do really enjoy listening to music of all kinds. Growing up, the radio or stereo was always on in my parent’s house; my father, sister and brother all had musical abilities. My life with EDS has involved many surgeries and long periods of recuperation; listening to music helped make the time go by and was soothing to me.
Andrew and I first met at EDNF when I was a Board Director and Director of Local Groups. We worked together to build one of the first patient advocacy online communities and found that regardless of geography, we worked very well together. When Andrew began to develop music2work2, he asked if I would be interested in marketing the project. I shared his belief that music is good for you – that music benefits people in so many ways, and was happy to help.
Being involved with music2work2 has opened areas of technology and learning for me that I would never have expected to come to at this late date in my life. I am having a great time learning new skills, listening to new artists and helping to spread beautiful music to people everywhere.
You can follow music2work2 on Twitter here.
The first visual memory I have is that of the white upright piano in Singapore (the one my Father ultimately took an Axe to.) Hell and the dark forces lived at the bottom, Heaven and the Angels at the top. They would play battles through my fingers and I was hooked.
If you know me, you know I play the piano, it’s just something I do: in people’s houses, in bars, at shows, etc.
I take one with me and am a shadow of myself when I do not play for extended periods.
