Shane Morrow plays piano and sings in the sunroom of his Brainerd home. Morrow is founder of the artist networking group The Creative Underground.Shane Morrow has come a long way from “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
On a recent afternoon he sat at the 19th-century Emerson piano in the sunroom of his Brainerd home, playing and singing jazz classics such as “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” and “Summertime.”
Morrow, a 42-year-old performing artist, has been playing music since he was a child in Fairfield County, Conn. His great-grandmother insisted he learn.
“She told me at a very young age, ‘You’re going to learn how to play that piano, because that piano will not only bring you peace, that piano will always keep you working.’ “
“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” was the first song he learned. From there, he developed a love of performing and ventured beyond the piano.