Paulette is the manager of Simply Music and is a licensed educator with the world renowned Kindermusik program.  In her spare time she cycles, trains for half marathons, enjoys her fresh, green drinks, spends time with her nieces and nephews, goes to movies and has the odd Frap, yum, yum!!  Oh yeah, must not forget playing bass guitar for a band in her church. 

Paulette, a Saskachewanite until the age of 17, was born the eldest in a family of 5 siblings.  As another generation of musicians, they knew they had a reputation to uphold with Elvis Presley running not too far before them in their family tree.   Paulette's earliest musical memories were the tambourine the school ukulele/ and recorder.  There was no such thing as the Kindermusik Program back then so you did what you could to develop your musicality at a young age.  She remembers lining up in a row with all the neighborhood kids taking turns playing the tambourine to her dad's foot stomping.  Another thing worth mentioning was that her family sang all the time, whether it was over the dish pan or in the car (work, play, or gatherings) but always on every road trip they took (there were no iPhones or Nintendos… it was all about creating your own entertainment). 

As she grew into a preteen, she remembers having a great desire to play the piano but her family did not own one.  She remembers trying to figure out how songs would be played as she listened to the notes in her head.  After getting a miracle piano with prayer and a lot of hard farm work, Paulette finally got her piano lessons.  At the age of 15, she decided it was time to take up an additional instrument and play bass guitar.  "I was tapping to everything and could never sit still when there was music; it just seemed a natural transition."  All through her teen years you would find her and her siblings either practicing their instruments, riding their horses, hooking up their sled dogs, or out working hard on their 5 acres trying to earn money to buy more instruments.

It wasn't many years later when Paulette and her family planned to do a music tour across Canada, which they did accomplish a number of years later.  They toured in a big silver bus playing at churches and music festivals across Canada, with new their new recording in which they spent hours in the studio and literally  hours and hours  and hours practicing.  It wasn't unusual for them to spend 3-5 hrs practicing or jamming many nights.  During these years they had many bands and fans pushing her and her family to go to Nashville. They were going to do that "later" but "later" never came with the dispersing of the family with careers, weddings and such.

During all those years of making music, Paulette's music was put aside for awhile and her dispersing took her on a journey to Marvel College in Edmonton, AB to take up a long awaited career as a professional hairstylist.  She finished this career of 13 yrs in Langley, BC.  During these years she decided to take more education and become TESL certified.  This enabled her to tutor International students, in which she found herself teaching short term conversational English classes to many different cultures, as well as interviewing homes for International student host family placements.  Two of the places she worked were Trinity Western University and with NLC in FSJ, BC.  In this same line of work, she also did some work with a language firm in Vancouver where she was activity director with Langley Secondary School in Langley, BC. 

Looking throughout her lifetime, she notes that she taught and pioneered many interesting programs, including getting licensed with Kindermusik International.  Her first memories of teaching go back to the age of 11.  She looks back now and wonders how she did what she did starting at such a young age.  One thing about Paulette people notice is that she definitely marches to her own beat.  I guess that is why she's a natural bassist and has been for 25 years.  What can I say!!  She gets right in the swing of things.  I guess that is what drives her to do what she does now, manage Simply Music, work with family members and other awesome staff, teach Kindermusik, and work with lots of great students on a daily basis.  What else could a person ask for!!