Snowden, in her mid-40s, is optimistic despite her current unemployment. In mid-1998, she was laid off from her music teaching job in Boston. “Every year they called me back. But this year, they didn’t,” she lamented. “I called about any openings, but the lady said, ‘We’re not gonna hire you this year, because the principal didn’t want to recommend you.’ I called the principal, and she said, ‘Everybody’s proven themselves except you.’ So I got laid off.” She wasn’t qualified to teach little children about music, but here she is in New York City being produced by Fred Schneider and surrounded
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