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Please enjoy your time here and check back from time to time for updates on everything new. Leah has written and produced a museum-quality gift book, Beauty Gone Wild about the myth, magic and folklore of flowers and put the stories to music. If you want to pull the curtain back and read the story so far on Beauty Gone Wild please proceed to the story page. To select a sample of some music, read what the critics have said about the project, or to place an order, please proceed to the music page. You can also place an order on the contact page. We recommend the QuickTime player for Windows or Mac to play the MP3's. If you don't have a QuickTime player, you will find links under the songs to download them. Sorry, if you are on a dial up account it will take some time to load. High speed connections work for us instantaneously. There are some examples of the illustrations from the book on the gallery page. If you wish to contact Leah about Beauty Gone Wild, a wildflower presentation, a floral design program, or a piano performance, please click here.

ABOUT LEAH...

Leah is a country girl, born and raised on a dairy farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Mason-Dixon line runs right through the family property, so you could say she grew up in the state of Maryland too. Her family were farmers and gardeners and have a long history of growing their own food and working the land. Leah studied piano from a young age and also played flute and alto sax in the Gettysburg high school band. After discovering Barbara Watkins at a summer camp, she was so taken by her piano technique that she decided to audition for and attend James Madison University to study piano under Barbara's father, Dr. Lowell Watkins. Dr. Watkins was also the father of Kit Watkins, later of the progressive art-rock band Happy the Man. Following school and over the span of several years, Leah had musical stints with two all-female rock bands and a handful of collaborations with various solo artists. One of the rock bands "Tommie," based in San Francisco, featured Nancy Wenstrom, a guitar player known in the bay area for her work with Grace Slick and Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane and Starship. It was after "Tommie" and upon her return to the East Coast that Leah began sowing the seeds for Beauty Gone Wild. Leah was elated to finally be writing and performing all her own material without limitations or compromises. The project was several years in the making, as the book had to be written, designed and fully illustrated, not to mention writing, recording, mixing and mastering the music. Soon the word was out on Leah and her solo piano perfomances at local wine bars and coffeehouses were establishing a growing local following. Around this time, Leah's performances naturally evolved into her becoming a sought-after piano teacher. Over the years, Leah has developed her own teaching style that emphasizes all the basics, but also encourages creativity, experimentaion, self-expression and composition.

In addition to her piano skills, Leah also has a diverse background in other areas. Leah attended the Cappa Chell finishing and modeling school in the Washington D.C. area and had a brief career as a fashion model. A few photo shoots and fashion shows later, she found modeling simply didn't suit her personality. She wanted to pursue her love of nature and decided to attend Michael Polychrones School of Floral Design, in Springfield, Virginia. Subsequently, Leah spent a number of years designing in floral shops in Virginia, Washington D.C., San Francisco and New York; eventually working her way up to the prestigious American Institute of Floral Designers designation (www.aifd.org). Leah is an enviromental activist, an expert nature preservationist, an award-winnng floral designer, a garden club lecturer and a conservationist. Leah is an instructor of floral design at the New York Botanical Garden (www.nybg.org) and has been teaching there since 1988. In 1996 she had a desire to volunteer her expertise, so she could give something back; cultivating and nurturing flowers. This led her to Teatown Lake Reservation (www.teatown.org) in Ossining, New York, where volunteering soon ushered her into a paying job as the curator in charge of the Wildflower Island. The Wildflower Island at Teatown is a magical and serene nature preserve, an island in the middle of a lake, featuring an abundance of rare and endangered native plants and flowers. Leah carries with her a distinct love and passion for nature, and she is an avid bird watcher and organic gardener. She spearheaded a successful initiative along with New York State Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, to plant wildflowers along the Taconic Parkway. She is the president of the New Horizons Garden Club and gives lectures, floral design programs and wildflower presentations to other garden clubs and nature gatherings throughout the New York metropolitan area. Leah has repeatedly been the featured floral designer at the "Stone Barns Center for Organic Agriculture" (www.stonebarnscenter.org) on the Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills as well as at the "Lasdon Park and Arboretum" (Lasdon Park) in Somers, New York. These successful satellite programs are sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden. Her activities have been featured prominently and repeatedly on Channel 12 in Westchester and in the Journal News.

NEWS:

NEWS FLASH: CONGRATULATIONS TO LEAH: In June of 2009 Leah was selected as Wildflower Chairman, Federated Garden Clubs, Ninth District, State of New York. The Ninth District extends from approximately the Newburgh, area on the north edge, down to New York City, and includes the five boroughs. Leah is honored to assume this position and will pour her energy and dedication into making the best of this fine opportunity.

Innertainment and Leah are excited to announce their new strategic alliance with UFO Distribution. UFO is handling Beauty Gone Wild on their website for digital downloads and hard good mail-order sales. Additionally UFO is handling the digitial aggregation for downloads and is now up on Itunes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. In addition to listening to some snippets here, you can check out Beauty Gone Wild's UFO microsite: Leah'sUFOMicrosite or to go directly to Leah's UFO listening page here: Leah's UFO Listening Page. Thanks for listening!

FROM LEAH:

It seems to be happening to me all over again! So sorry that I have not been able to keep up with the news on the site. It has proven once again to be such a busy spring and summer. For all of you who have asked, I don't normally post any dates and times of flower shows and presentations here, as nearly all of them are closed to the general public and are by "invitation only." Between the speaking engagementss and wildflower presentations, the various activities at the "Wildflower Island" at Teatown, my Garden Conservancy obligations, teaching floral design for the NYBG and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, teaching my piano students, picking up an award or two at design competitions at Lasdon, being President of the New Horizons Garden Club and growing organic food in the home garden - well you get the idea - there hasn't been much time leftover to keep the website up to date! Special thanks to all the tri-state area garden clubs who invited me to speak - I continue to enjoy the process of formulating custom presentations for all of you. Also a salute to all the good folks who purchased Beauty Gone Wild. A heartfelt thanks from me for supporting the artist and the arts.

Many of my hardest working piano students continued their studies with me over the summer, a nod goes out to them for their dedication to the art. Trying to find the time to focus on my music and the good old Kawai piano so I can lay down some piano tracks for a new project. Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by!