Completed the accreditation process to become an accredited teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music
Tag Archives: Children
Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited
43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.
Launched theoffhandband.com
Launched theoffhandband.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band
- Founded this music act to create satisfying songs that are cool for kids, fun for families and great for the grown on their own.
- Webmaster for theoffhandband.com.
Licensed Simply Music Teacher
Completed the training process to become a licensed teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music
Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com
Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Developed new music, arts and creativity services
Developed innovative Songwriting Workshops, Singalong Workshops, Creativity Coaching service and custom songwriting/composition/writing services, most using Appreciative Inquiry to foster collaborative creativity.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.
Relaunched arts.potluck.com
Relaunched arts.potluck.com, adding services including composition, lyric-writing, musical arrangements and production, as well as writing and directing for motion pictures and theatre.
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts
Potluck Creative Arts, Red Hook, NY
- Promoting my activities as a musician, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, pianist/keyboardist, music/arts/creativity educator/facilitator and writer/director for motion pictures and theatre.
- Services offered include Songwriting Workshops; Singalong Workshops; Custom Songs; Custom Instrumentals; Custom Writing; Creativity Coaching; Music Lessons; Piano/Keyboard Performance; Musical Arrangements and Production; Directing for Motion Pictures and Theatre.
- Webmaster for potluckcreativearts.com.
Author; Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself
Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
Read at potluck.com.
Music/Piano Teacher, Alfred methods
Using Alfred piano methods including the Basic Piano Course, Prep Course for the Younger Beginner, and Music for Little Mozarts.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Alfred Piano Methods
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts
- Created this business to promote my arts performances and educational efforts, including concerts, singalongs and music lessons.
- Webmaster for arts.potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.
Incorporated Sophie’s World into potluck.com
Multiple honors, 11th Annual Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest
- The Fall of the Roxy Usher, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
- Someone Duplicated the Key to My Heart, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
- Falling into the Sun; Music by Mark S. Meritt, Lyrics by Richard Hack and Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate.
Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse
Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse, using custom HTML programming.
Visit Sophie’s World.
Webmaster, Sophie’s World
- Created this web site as a blog for Sophia Quinn Meritt.
- Webmaster for sophiaquinnmeritt.com.
Pianist, Lara Spencer’s wedding dance, Good Morning America
I was invited to provide live, original accompaniment for Lara Spencer and her dance instructor as part of her series documenting the planning of her wedding.
Listen and see photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Pianist, Chukwu septuplets’ first birthday, Good Morning America
I was invited to perform “Happy Birthday” on the piano for the Chukwu septuplet’s first birthday celebration.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Pianist, Rosie’s Christmas Carol Challenge, Good Morning America
Rosie O’Donnell played “name that tune” with me performing snippets of Christmas songs and Rosie having to guess as many as she could in one minute.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Co-Creator, Composer; The Unexplainable Bonefish
A proposed television series in which host Dr. Wiley Bonefish and a crew of puppet lab assistants would humorously help kids explore paranormal science using the scientific method.
Listen and read at potluck.com.
Co-Screenwriter, Stage Dad
A struggling actor finds new life directing his young daughter’s school play.
Co-Author, Hugh Manatee
- Children’s book with an ecological theme.
- Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1995-1996.
Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist; The Right Circles
- Scheming Broadway writers make fun of avant garde theatre, but what goes around comes around.
- Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1994-1996.
Client, Farber Literary Agency
Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY.