Your Creative Push

Joanna Sternberg is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist living in New York City.  She primarily plays the double bass, but also plays electric bass, guitar, and piano.  Joanna sings and writes songs, and regularly performs her original music.  She plays folk, country, blues, rock, ragtime, classical, gospel, funk, rhythm and blues, klezmer, and jazz (ranging from the style of the 1920's to the present day.)  Joanna is also currently in a band called "Fraydele" as well as a talented visual artist. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/joanna In this episode, Joanna discusses: -How and why she chooses to write, sing, and play so many different styles of music. -That the inspiration for the songs usually comes from personal experiences that she needs to get out into the world. -Her band "Fraydele" that plays music that her grandmother, Fraydele Oysher, sang in the Yiddish Theater. -How it is sometimes necessary to take a break and "fill the tank." -How drawing and visual art is less draining and taxi