Gillian Grassie

Graduation

// May 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Cool Stuff, News

“I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free!”

Well, it’s been a long road, but today I graduated from Bryn Mawr College cum laude, with a B.A. in Comparative Literature.

Sincere thanks to my family, friends, professors and administrators. Special thanks to professors Kirchwey, Torday, Gorfinkel, Seyhan, and Higginson for your encouragement and support, and to all my co-workers at the Bryn Mawr College Bookshop.

I’m very much looking forward to re-directing my focus towards my Watson year and music full-time now.

Live on XPN’s Folk Show with host Gene Shay TONIGHT!

// March 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Performances, Press

Gene Shay will be featuring me again on the XPN Folk Show! Tune
in from 8 PM – 11 PM TONIGHT to hear a live, in-studio performance and
interview to discuss my Watson fellowship.  The full band will be joining me on air – that’s Ross Bellenoit (guitar), Ryan Kuhns (upright bass), and Matt Scarano (drums)!

XPN is available on the following radio frequencies and worldwide at www.xpn.org:

* WXPN 88.5 FM in the greater Philadelphia/South Jersey area
* 104.9 FM in the Lehigh Valley
* 90.5 FM Worton/Baltimore
* 88.7 FM Lancaster/York
* 99.7 FM Harrisburg
* WXPN is also available worldwide via streaming audio.

Gillian awarded Watson Fellowship!

// March 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // News, Press

This is big-time, serious, life-changing, wonderful news!

I am one of forty graduating college seniors who have been given the honor of being this year’s Watson Fellows! The Watson Fellowship is a prestigious and generous one-year grant awarded to college seniors of unusual promise for a year of independent exploration and travel outside the United States.

My Watson year will begin July 28th and will take me (and my harp!) through Germany, France, India, Indonesia, China and Japan to explore the evolving relationships between musicians, their music, and technologies in the age of social media. I will not be allowed to re-enter the United States for the full twelve months of my Watson year, but I hope you’ll stay in touch with me through my mailing list and through this website, which will serve in part as a multimedia travel blog.

Claudia Ginanni wrote a fantastic article about my project for Bryn Mawr College. You can read the article online here.