Rise with Resilience & Resourcefulness Blog

Inspiration, touring, traveling adventures, and a hub for all Tony Memmel news. Spend some time in these pages and leave with stories and insights to encourage you and strengthen you as you go through your day.

One Year Old

Happy 1st birthday to our son, Theo! It’s been an incredible first year with you. Here’s what it looked like…

Nov 6, 2019

10 Years

Photo by: Alison Weakley Photography In the fall of 2009, I packed my 1998 GMC Jimmy to the brim, cleared a nest in the back for a...

Nov 4, 2019

Teaching in Thailand – American Music Abroad Academy

Headed back to the USA – Thank you, Thailand! I’m 39,000 feet in the air on my way to Hong Kong, then Dallas, then onto Nashville by...

Aug 30, 2019

AMA Academy in Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand AMA Academy is in full swing, and I’m already so impressed by these students! Musicians from all across Asia, coming...

Aug 18, 2019

Singapore x2

Singapore Skyline Looking out my airplane window at the vast blackness of the sea below, glowing cargo ships began to appear. First a...

Aug 16, 2019

The Journey Begins (Part Two)

Singapore-bound! I’m in the air now on my first flight of three in the next thirty hours or so: Nashville to Chicago to Tokyo to...

Aug 14, 2019

The Journey Begins (Part One)

FaceTime with Theo and Lesleigh as I boarded my flight to Tokyo The sliding doors open to the terminal, and I turn around to wave goodbye...

Aug 13, 2019

The Invitation

Post guitar lesson photo at Lucky Fin Project Weekend! THE INVITATION: one of my favorite moments from my work with kids is when I invite...

Jul 16, 2019

Deep in the Heart of Texas…

Headed out! – at Nashville International Airport Here we go! Nashville Airport, bound for New Orleans, then on to Houston, TX, where I’ll...

Jun 24, 2019

Best Week Ever!

SPECIAL STORY and BRAND NEW SONG! This month, I had the joy of being a guest at Muscular Dystrophy Association Camp in Burlington, WI....

Jun 20, 2019

Lucky Fin Project Weekend 2019!

Photo by Alison Weakley SO EXCITED that we will be attending this year’s Lucky Fin Project Weekend in Troy, MI! For details, visit...

Jun 10, 2019

Muscular Dystrophy Association Camp

Photo by Alison Weakley I’m headed North this week… excited to be a special guest at Muscular Dystrophy Association Camp in Wisconsin!...

Jun 7, 2019

Kicking off CMA Fest Week at the Bluebird Cafe!

Photo by Alison Weakley VERY excited to be kicking off CMA Fest week in Nashville at the Bluebird Cafe! Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 8:00PM...

Jun 2, 2019

The hills are alive with the sound of music… in Tajikistan

I wrote this song for my son, Theo, before he was born. Lesleigh and I decided not to find out our baby’s gender – we wanted to be...

May 22, 2019

Farewell, Kazakhstan. Hello, Tajikistan!

Dushanbe, Tajikistan I’m writing from my hotel room in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It’s beautiful here. As I look around the city, I can see...

May 19, 2019

Teachers, Taldykorgan, and a Kazakh Cheeseburger

See the mountains in the distance?! They are huge! Photos don’t do them justice. Towering, snow-capped mountains peaked through the...

May 18, 2019

We’ll Be on the Radio, and TV, and Live in Concert!

Backstage fun at the TV station! Up-and-at-em! The sun was shining and the early morning air was still and warm as we climbed in the van...

May 15, 2019

Horse Sense and Olympic Torches

Boarding our flight to Kazakhstan! The stars were brilliant on our overnight flight from Frankfurt to Nursultan, Kazakhstan. I was lucky...

May 13, 2019

Up To Speed

A cozy airport hotel room called “my cloud.” I’m in a tiny hotel room in Frankfurt, Germany, at the airport. The perfect size to get a...

May 9, 2019

The world tour continues!

Photo by Alison Weakley / Poster by Lesleigh Memmel The world tour continues!… We are so excited to be heading to CENTRAL ASIA this month...

May 6, 2019