Lynn Love

“I didn’t Just like carole king. i Wanted so much to be Carole King”

- Susan Lagsdin

When Lynn Love sat down to her white baby grand piano to play and sing Carole King’s heart-tugging ballad Way Over Yonder, it was totally effortless — the most natural thing in the world.

That’s probably because when she was in her young teens in Omak she and her friends idolized the charismatic performer, playing her music and singing her songs over and over for a few years. The long time Wenatchee musician said, “I didn’t just like Carole King. I wanted so much to be Carole King.”

No reason to keep laboring at that old dream. Lynn Love, recently-retired music teacher extraordinaire, singer, pianist and Appleaire choir director makes an excellent Lynn Love. And that’s an enviable enough goal.

“I was so excited to start piano when I was little,” she said. “My parents gave all six of us music lessons. The boys were more musical, but we girls studied harder. So we’re actually the musicians,” she said with a laugh.

She met her husband Kevin while they were in high school band together, and (maybe a secret divulged too soon) she thinks when they’re both retired that a family combo would be a good idea — with at least her husband and her sister. She’s already planning to move his drum set into the living area where her piano holds court.