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Nanette Perrotte

Nanette began her study of music at the age of eleven with voice lessons in Classical, Broadway, Jazz, Country and Rock.  Her BA is from Berklee College of Music in Boston and her MA Ed. is from Lesley University in Cambridge.  Her first of many rock bands, G.I.R.L (Get it Real Loud) was formed when she was twelve.

Perrotte works as a performer, composer and educator.  Her teaching at the Master’s level is for Endicott College in Beverly, MA.  Nanette specializes in using music and voice to focus and de-stress students, and to improve public speaking.

Nanette and her husband, Sebastian Lockwood produced the project Emily Dickinson- Zero at the Bone a live show, CD and companion book that highlights the contemporary power of poet Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson- Zero at the Bone puts the poetry of Emily Dickinson to Nanette’s original rock, pop and jazz music while Sebastian provides a groovy storyline woven through the songs.  In performance, Nanette channels the spirit and vitality of Dickinson into the powerful music of the show.

In 2004 The Nanette Perrotte Jazz Combo released a cd “I Remember You” that highlights the music of lyricist Johnny Mercer as well as original jazz and country tunes.

Voice &Yoga is a program developed by Perrotte integrating vocal sound with yoga postures and meditation. Voice &Yoga works for musicians to ground performances and expand musicality.  Working professionals also enjoy the class to focus creativity, enhance people managing skills and relax from work stress.

Sebastian Lockwood

Sebastian Lockwood has been performing as a traveling bard for seven years. He is a poet, teacher and storyteller.

Lockwood studied classics, anthropology and Education at, Boston University and Cambridge University, UK. He developed his unique telling style as a poet doing improv readings on the poetry circuit in New York City and Boston.

After eighteen years in Cambridge, MA, he moved up to the Monadnock region living under Crotched Mountain in a 1792 hip-roof colonial.

As well as storytelling in schools, universities, conferences and clubs he teaches for several universities. For Lesley University and Endicott College Lockwood teaches in their creative Arts programs teaching the use of poetry, visual arts and storytelling in the classroom. For the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH he teaches Visual Anthropology and Storytelling.

Lockwood has collaborated with his wife Nanette Perrotte, a vocalist and composer on a number of projects including the language arrangements of Emily Dickinson- Zero at the Bone.

Sebastian is a member of the New Hampshire Artists Roster.