I get more out of connecting people to music than critiquing it. Our Tiny Desk Contest , for example, forges small communities as friends get together to make a music video in hopes of playing a Tiny Desk Concert. This year's winner, a singer and violinist from Duluth, Minn. named Gaelynn Lea , was encouraged by her fiddle students to submit her winning video. Two of the contest judges, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig from the band Lucius , who helped Gaelynn Lea, said they were completely overwhelmed by her submission .
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