Author @ Blaise Kielar

Blaise Kielar received Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for an excerpt from his memoir in progress, "Be Heard: The Quiet Kid Who Started the World’s Loudest Violin Shop." He opened Chapel Hill’s first violin shop in 1978 and retired from a music retail career by transitioning Electric Violin Shop into the first worker-owned co-op music store in the United States. He plays jazz violin and clarinet in several bands and leads the Bulltown Strutters, Durham’s community New Orleans brass band.

Blaise Kielar writing

Beginning Now

This is my first blog post. I have written much in my life, but today I enter a new format, with a new potential for being heard. The Players of Now domain is dedicated to the spread of spontaneous artistic expression in all mediums, by all ages and all abilities, so we each feel we […]

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