Winnie Dahlgren

During WWII Denmark had to keep their windows dark at night as the Nazis didn’t want the British planes to use the lights as navigation.

May 4th, 1945 was the day Denmark was freed and as a symbol all the…

In my last blog I was writing about teaching music to children. As I’m slowly getting ready to teach another semester at Berklee College of Music, entering my 13^th year teaching at the college, I’ll here share some of…

When I started teaching drum set at several music schools back home in Denmark, I was mostly working with children between the ages of 11-14 years, and mostly boys!

From the beginning I always demanded that they’d have at least…

Looking at my blog here, I see that it has been a while since my last entry. So many things I’m thinking I could write about, my friends would say I definitely have opinions about various topics, so it’s not…

In my first blog, I started out writing about being Danish. One of the essential things about being from Denmark, is the thing we do all the time – “hygge”. It always takes a while to explain what that is…

What’s the difference between a Xylophone, a Marimba and a Vibraphone (aka. Vibes)?!

Xylophone – Let’s first talk about the word! Xylophone is from Greek, where xylon = wood and phone = sound. Which is what is being produced –…

In an earlier blog I wrote this summer has been all about cleaning out in my many emails, and in general getting my cyber life organized! Going through some of the material, I stumbled upon this fun little bundle of…

I was recently in Washington DC, and am standing in the foot steps of MLK - where he gave his famous speech...

This summer, besides keeping the music going, I have been to de-cluttering my emails. Why? For way too long I have been filing emails into various folders, thinking I soon would go through them all. These emails are all about…

I am Danish!

I’m from Denmark, a little country in Northern Europe, part of Scandinavian (Denmark, Sweden, Norway). The capital of Denmark is Copenhagen (we say “København”) – so no, we’re not the capital of Sweden!

We also speak Danish…