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How Music Can Save Your Life

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  • Brendan Slocumb, musician, educator, and author of the upcoming novel “The Violin Conspiracy” is here to tell you how music can save your life— it certainly saved his.
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Episodes
  • The One and Only Victor Wooten

    The One and Only Victor Wooten
    Mar 15 2022
    Brendan’s guest for our season one finale is five-time Grammy winner, Victor Wooten. Wooten hit the worldwide scene in 1990 as a founding member of the super-group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy nominated solo recordings and tours. Among other things, he is a husband and father, a teacher, a published author, a magician and acrobat, and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist including being voted Bassist of the Year in Bass Player Magazine's readers poll three times (the only person to win it more than once). In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassists of ALL TIME. Learn more about Victor Wooten here! More about host Brendan Slocumb Follow Brendan Slocumb on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify! Buy Brendan’s debut novel “The Violin Conspiracy” here!
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    45 mins
  • Call Him Dr. Leslie B. Dunner

    Call Him Dr. Leslie B. Dunner
    Mar 1 2022
    Brendan is joined by Dr. Leslie B. Dunner, director of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, as well as interim music director of the South Shore Opera Company and resident conductor of New Jersey’s Trilogy Opera Company. He won a Pulitzer Prize in music in 2020 for Anthony Davis’ historical work The Central Park Five.  Brendan and Dr. Dunner discuss his time with the dance theater of Harlem, his experiences as a Black American traveling the world as a representative of American artistic ventures, and dismissing the illusion of control while conducting an orchestra. You truly do not want to his this episode.  You can learn more about Dr. Dunner here. More about host Brendan Slocumb Follow Brendan Slocumb on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify! Buy Brendan’s debut novel “The Violin Conspiracy” here!
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    48 mins
  • Daniel Roumain: Racism as a Virus

    Daniel Roumain: Racism as a Virus
    Feb 15 2022
    Brendan is joined by Daniel Roumain: composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. He has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol, and ESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House and the City of Burlington, Vermont.  You can learn more about Daniel Roumain here. More about host Brendan Slocumb Follow Brendan Slocumb on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify! Buy Brendan’s debut novel “The Violin Conspiracy” here!
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    28 mins
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