Caroline Pond

I love pom poms and peacocks ...I love Jamaican Seaside Splashes ....I love Cosmopolitans, Champagne and Chardonnay (not all at the same time) ...I love busking in the streets of the Netherlands ....I love sittin in the hottub underneath a canopy of stars in Burney Moutnain ....I love my sassy friends ...I love drinking coffee in the morning time and being real spunky ....I love walks in Asheville to work when 78 % of the town isn’t awake yet ...I love birds and how they are so free (I love to paint them on canvases and stencil them) ...I love Kale and Sweet Potatoes ....I love the nail polish color by OPI “Mrs. O’Leary’s BBQ” ....I love the Roaring 20’s ...I love my Grandmuddy and my Grandma Cassie (2 inspirational ladies of my life) ...I love playing with The Snakes and The Firecrackers ...I love sunny sunny days and blue skies ...I love orange cats, like Yellowman, Rerun, Chief and Tsali ...I love and adore my whole Family ....I love my Brother Jed ...I love hiking on giant mountains and getting to the peak ...I love Chocolate Lab Puppies (Arrow, Marley and Montana) ...I love how India is so colorful and spicy even though it’s such a poor country ....I love to laugh and make others laugh too ...I love Indian buffets ...I love New York City ...I love The Towers in Naragannsett, Rhode Island (my most favorite place to play music) ...I love Early American Jazz Music ....I love Zydeco dancing soooo much ...I love Maine ....I love going to Breaux Bridge, Louisiana every year to dance during Mardi Gras ...I love seeing double rainbows in Asheville ...I love seeing the sunrise on Haleakala Volcano in Maui, Hawaii ....More to come…………Caroline Pond was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been playing violin, since the tender age of 7. Caroline played all through elementary school and highschool. She was a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra for 2 years. She took a hiatus from her violining while attending The University of Georgia in Athens. "I just didn't think it was cool enough, I wanted to have fun and I needed a break from classical music", proclaims Caroline. ... At the age of 23, friends of hers introduced her to the sounds of bluegrass, jazz, swing, funk, etc. They asked her to come pickin with them. Very timid at the time, she decided to take that wooden box with the F holes right on out of her closet and try her hand at these peculiar musical styles. "I had no idea that a violin can do these styles", she announced. ... Caroline basically started her enthusiastic studies by pickin' with her friends, sight reading music books and listening to tons of cds. "It was hard for me to improvise at first, I was so used to following the dots on the page, but over the years it got easier and easier and I am still learning every day." ....Caroline has been a performer for the last decade. She toured with Snake Oil Medicine Show through the United States, Europe and Jamaica. She has fine tuned her style in fiddlin' and her voice. When asked the difference between a fiddle and a violin, she replies "They are basically the same, but you can spill beer on a fiddle." ...Other interests of Caroline Pond's are ukelele and dancing. She is a Zydeco, Contra and Salsa Dancer. "I feel like it goes with my musical training, it helps my rhythm out, so much." ...She is a Yoga Instructor as well. Caroline received her certificate at the Sivananda Yoga Center in the Bahamas in March of 2004. It was there that she was writing a love song, "Bahamian Love", where she saw Woody Harrelson walk by. When she gets in the BIG Time she plans on asking Woody to star in the video. ....Caroline Pond is a well-rounded individual who plans on spending the rest of her years on the planet earth sharing her gifts. ...Om Shanti!!!