Best Daniel Donato Podcasts (2024)

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S1.04 Daniel Donato on his Camp Cosmic Music Festival at The Caverns 1:04:03

1d ago1:04:03

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Join me, Neighbor N8, as I dive into a super interesting conversation with Daniel Donato. We get into his journey over the last 11 years, from busking in Nashville to one of the hottest up and coming musicians on the music festival scene. You'll also get some insider info on the 2nd Camp Cosmic music festival that will be hosted at The Caverns in P…

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S1.08 Music Festival Travel Planning to Cottonwood Meadows & Billy Strings Renewal 2024 25:28

1h ago25:28

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Check out Ep.08 of the Music Festivals Podcast where share the week's music festival news, planning tips and helpful tools that I've used to plan travel to Cottonwood Meadows for Billy Strongs Renewal 2024. 🗞️ Music Festival News for the Week of Friday September 20th, 2024 🗞️ Discover the latest on the highly anticipated Mepho Music Festival, inclu…

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S1.07 - Austin & the Syd Experience on Becoming a Music Festival Circuit Band 43:27

1d ago43:27

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Check out Ep 07 of the Music Festivals Podcast where I talk with Austin Johnson and Syd Alexis about their band Austin & the Syd Experience and the path to becoming a festival band. They preformed at #musicfestivals like Ohio Dreamfest, Hookahville, Columbus's ComFest recently. Austin even shares his experience preforming on the blues circuit and a…

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S1.05 Recap of Grateful Fest & Grassfire Music Festivals 2024 at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville OH 41:39

22h ago41:39

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In Ep05 of the Music Festivals Podcast, I'm recapping two #musicfestivals held this summer at one of my favorite venues Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio @nelsonledgesquarrypark4618 #nlqp. You'll also get some tips on how to prep your generator for #festivals so that it you'll have solid power all weekend and more importantly, you do…

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Small Town Revelations From California to Carolina With Margo Cilker 33:58

1d ago33:58

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I have been reading about Plato and Aristotle lately, in Jeffrey Kripal’s fascinating book, The Flip. Early on in the essay, Kripal points to the history of Western intellectual discourse having swung widely back and forth between the visionary philosophy of Plato, and the empirical rationalism of his student, Aristotle. In Plato’s view, our percep…

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Episode 48: Israel Nebeker 1:04:10

8d ago1:04:10

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Chris' guest on episode 48 is Israel Nebeker, lead singer and songwriter of Oregon indie folk gem Blind Pilot. After an 8 year break between albums, Blind Pilot is back with an excellent new record, 'In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain.' Israel talks about that long break, his challenges writing new songs, how he got through the writing dry spell an…

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S1.03 Dark Star Jubilee 2024 at Legend Valley, Ohio: Music Festival Reviews 30:05

10d ago30:05

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Join me, Neighbor N8, as as I review the highlights, the scene and the vibe of Dark Star Jubilee 2024 at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio! Get to know this annual music festival and historic Ohio concert venue before you go so that you can be better prepared to have an amazing experience. Get the scoop on ticket prices, camping options, and stando…

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S1.02 Lazy Jam Music Festival Spotlight with Ed McGee of One Under 48:31

3d ago48:31

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In this episode of the Music Festivals Podcast, I'm joined by singer-song writer Ed McGee to discuss his musical journey and the bands he's been a part of. From his early days in Columbus Ohio to his move back to Vermont and work on his current projects. Ed shares a lot of cool stories about his career in music. We also talk about his upcoming reun…

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S1.06 - Hookahville Music Festival Recap - Fall 2024 at J&M Ranch in Ansonia, Ohio 42:13

6d ago42:13

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Check out Episode 6 of the Music Festivals Podcast where we recap the entire weekend at the 30th Year Anniversary of the Hookahville Music Festival, held at J&M Ranch in Ansonia, Ohio from August 30th to September 1st, 2024. Inside this Week's Episode 🗺️ Get a feel for the Music Festival Venue at J&M Ranch 🤔 Learn about Ekoostik Hookah and the othe…

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Catching Up With the Pied Piper, Ketch Secor 58:45

22d ago58:45

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Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show is never at a loss for words, and is never not entertaining, however he is, in equal measure, an ambassador of social conscience, too. Our interview concludes with Ketch saying, “[I]t's been a challenging time, and a lot of room … to be bummed out about this stuff. But I, I just got to keep going head on. I pla…

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Episode 47: Ani DiFranco 1:03:08

26d ago1:03:08

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On today's episode of Inside the Musician's Brain, Chris is joined by musical icon Ani DiFranco. Ani discusses her experience performing on Broadway as Persephone in the hit Anais Mitchell musical Hadestown. She also breaks down her new album, Unprecedented Sh!t, from the songwriting to the shift in production and sound. Ani shares some great thoug…

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S1.01 Getting to Know CaveFest and The Caverns in with Founder, Todd Mayo 38:26

24d ago38:26

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Hey there, Neighbors! In today’s episode of The Music Festivals Podcast, we’re kicking back with Todd Mayo, the creative force behind The Caverns and CaveFest in Pelham, Tennessee. Todd dives into his thrilling journey from dreaming up a music venue inside a cave to establishing it as a global attraction that draws Neighbors from every corner of th…

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Pioneering a New Style: The Musical and Cultural Synthesis of Larry & Joe 37:10

30d ago37:10

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When you think of Venezuelan music, perhaps salsa or merengue come to mind. But have you delved into joropo, or llanera music, from the western portion of the country? When you think of string band music like bluegrass, does anything far outside the region of the southern United States jump out as having a parallel makeup, or a kinship that might l…

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Episode 46: JJ Grey 1:19:45

1M ago1:19:45

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Episode 46 of Inside the Musician’s Brain features standout soul singer-songwriter JJ Grey. JJ just released his first album in almost 10 years, ‘Olustee.’ The long hiatus happened naturally, as did the flood of songwriting that followed, and JJ takes us inside that process. He also talks in depth about his spiritual journey, the realizations he’s …

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Bluegrass, Country and A Whole Lot In Between: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Marty Stuart 33:13

2M ago33:13

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When it comes to Marty Stuart, there simply is not enough time or space available to address the enormity and the lasting impact of his music, let alone his life story, here in this episode. We would need a whole year’s worth of podcasts to come close, and I doubt that he would be quite that generous with his time. Luckily, he was generous enough t…

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Episode 45: Mary Chapin Carpenter 57:05

2M ago57:05

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Chris' guest on episode 45 is legendary singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. After connecting on their shared love of dogs, this conversation explores many different aspects of Mary Chapin's long, successful career in music as a gifted writer, singer and performer. She breaks down her craft and reflects on the evolution of her career, including…

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Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo and the Many Collaborations of MerleFest 35:17

2M ago35:17

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When it comes to artists like Jim Lauderdale and Donna the Buffalo, I think back to a comment that Jerry Douglas made to me in an interview for this series, when he talked about what he called roots music 12 O'clock. Whereas the mainstream comes back around to roots music only so often in this metaphor, for artists like himself it is always roots m…

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Episode 44: Cris Jacobs 1:08:45

2M ago1:08:45

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Episode 44 of Inside the Musician's Brain features an interview with the amazing Cris Jacobs. Cris is an outstanding singer/songwriter from Baltimore, MD, whose new album, 'One of These Days,' is already making waves. This talk goes deep into the creation of the album, including Cris' personal journey of reframing his relationship with music to red…

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Episode 43: Amigo the Devil 1:19:03

3M ago1:19:03

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Today's episode features an interview with Amigo the Devil, a truly unique artist who straddles the line between folk and heavy metal with his banjo, his powerful voice, and his incredible original songs. Amigo (AKA Danny Kiranos) has built a fiercely loyal following with his brutally honest and sometimes dark perspectives that give a voice to what…

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American Songcatcher: Bob Wills 45:34

3M ago45:34

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Back in the day, I discovered the music of Bob Wills when I was a fresh faced college DJ at WXYC Chapel Hill. It was like hearing songs from an alternate universe to me, a kid who grew up listening to FM and AM radio’s menu of pop, rock and rap of the day, sprinkled with music bought from cassette clubs and record stores that ventured as far back a…

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Rural Roots That Run Deep With Nick Shoulders and Adeem the Artist 34:50

3M ago34:50

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In the first of two episodes from MerleFest in April 2024, we highlight two artists making their debuts at the festival, Nick Shoulders and Adeem the Artist. Following this episode are two artists who have made MerleFest a regular stop over its history — 24 and 26 times, respectively — Jim Lauderdale and Donna the Buffalo. Gallery images above: (le…

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Episode 42: Bronwyn Keith-Hynes 1:06:30

3M ago1:06:30

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On today's episode, Chris is joined by Grammy winner and two-time IBMA fiddle player of the year, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes. Known mainly for her work as a member of Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Bronwyn is one of the best fiddle players on the acoustic scene. She does an amazing job of taking us inside her learning process, and her strategies for impro…

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When Praise and Worship Is Also a Really Good Time: Trombone Shout Bands 23:40

4M ago23:40

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Hymns and gospel songs have flowed into, and very often, back out of out of every style of music with roots in the American South. From the music itself to its context in worship through choirs, instruments ranging from piano to organ to praise bands, and communal singing, the gospel tradition is, if not front and center in one’s life experience, t…

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Episode 41: Jerry Douglas 1:23:03

4M ago1:23:03

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Inside the Musician's Brain is back for Season 5, and joining Chris to kick things off is one of the titans of acoustic/roots music, Mr. Jerry Douglas. Now well established as the greatest dobro player ever, Jerry fought prejudices against the instrument in the early part of his career, ultimately establishing its place in bluegrass forever more. H…

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The Future is Fine Tuned (with Dev Rishi, Predibase) 52:28

4M ago52:28

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Dev Rishi is the founder and CEO of Predibase, the company behind Ludwig and LoRAX. Predibase just released LoRA Land, a technical report showing 310 models that can outcompete GPT-4 on specific tasks through fine-tuning. In this episode, Dev tries (pretty successfully) to convince me that fine-tuning is the future, while answering a bunch of inter…

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Striking the Eternal Chord of Cosmic Country With Daniel Donato 37:58

4M ago37:58

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It was the last gig of a late winter tour, and Daniel Donato was ready to exhale. His band was, too, having had the rare treat of seeing their wives the night before, as they prepared for one more show, a late night performance in Asheville, NC. As Daniel told me, they were all in high spirits, and I knew this bode well for their performance, which…

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Pre-training LLMs: One Model To Rule Them All? with Talfan Evans, DeepMind 37:36

4M ago37:36

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Talfan Evans is a research engineer at DeepMind, where he focuses on data curation and foundational research for pre-training LLMs and multimodal models like Gemini. I ask Talfan: Will one model rule them all? What does "high quality data" actually mean in the context of LLM training? Is language model pre-training becoming commoditized? Are compan…

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On Adversarial Training & Robustness with Bhavna Gopal 44:05

5M ago44:05

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"Understanding what's going on in a model is important to fine-tune it for specific tasks and to build trust." Bhavna Gopal is a PhD candidate at Duke, research intern at Slingshot with experience at Apple, Amazon and Vellum. We discuss How adversarial robustness research impacts the field of AI explainability. How do you evaluate a model's ability…

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From Beethoven to Emily Dickinson and Earl Scruggs: The Musical Archaeology of Tony Trischka 27:03

5M ago27:03

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It is natural that a second generation bluegrass banjo player would have soaked up as much of Earl Scruggs’ style on the five string as possible when starting out; it is just as natural that they would push outside of those boundaries of the territory staked out by their pioneering forebears. In Tony Trischka’s case, part of this instinct to turn b…

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On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI) 39:53

5M ago39:53

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Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss AI and emotional understanding: How does “prosody” add a dimension to human communication? What is Hume hoping to gain by adding it to Human-AI communication? Do we want to interact with AI like we int…

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Revisiting a North Carolina Massacre: Shelton Laurel, Part One 27:42

5M ago27:42

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There is a decidedly darker mood in the United States than ever in our lifetimes, it seems. In just one example poll recently, one in five Americans agreed that violence is necessary to get the country back on track. With that in mind, it seems like a good time to remember what happened the last time the country acted on this, when we fought the Ci…

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Going Solo, With Soul: Travis Book 30:18

6M ago30:18

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It was one of the first cold days of the fall in the western NC mountains when I trekked up from Spindale to Brevard to talk with Travis Book ahead of his show in town that night. Spindale is perhaps 60 miles away, where I work at WNCW, and with special shortcut directions from a trusted source who travels that route regularly, I figured it would t…

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (with Joel Lehman) 47:07

6M ago47:07

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Former OpenAI Research Scientist Joel Lehman joins to discuss the non-linear nature of technological progress and the present day implications of his book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Joel co-authored the book with Kenneth Stanley back in 2015. The two did ML research at OpenAI, Uber, and the University of Central Florida and wrote the book ba…

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Teaching the Art of the Bluegrass Jam: Pete Wernick 39:10

6M ago39:10

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What connects you to the year 1946? Think of the time immediately following World War II, and perhaps black and white images of men in fedoras and women in long dresses come to mind. Maybe you have parents or grandparents who were born around that time, or maybe you know someone who lived then and has past on. It is an era that now seems quite dist…

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Where are the good AI products? (with Varun Shenoy) 46:54

6M ago46:54

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“Where are the good AI products?” asks Varun Shenoy, ML engineer in his latest blog post. Varun and I talk through: What are the cool applications that exist? Why aren't there more of them? What do (the few) good AI application companies have in common? What technological or societal leaps are blocking the existence of more AI apps that matter? The…

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Blurring Lines and Packing a Punch With Stillhouse Junkies 30:06

7M ago30:06

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Here at Southern Songs and Stories, we take some liberties from time to time with what we put forward as songs and stories that fall under the umbrella of the American South. After all, we have featured a band from England (The Ruen Brothers), an artist from Idaho (Eilen Jewell), and several artists out of the sui generis state of Texas (Shinyribs,…

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The End of RAG (with Donato Riccio) 40:13

8M ago40:13

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ML Engineer and tech writer Donato Riccio wrote an article entitled "The End of RAG?" discussing what might replace Retrieval Augmented Generation in the near future. The article was received as highly controversial within the AI echo chamber, so I brought Donato on the podcast to discuss RAG, why people are so obsessed with vector databases, and t…

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Diversifying and Exporting Bluegrass With Dark Shadow Recording’s Stephen Mougin and Ben Wright 34:09

8M ago34:09

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It was day five of the IBMAs and I had been up until four that morning, but Stephen Mougin and Ben Wright might have even seen the sun come up that day after they hosted yet another late night music showcase. Technically their showcases shut down around two or three in the morning, but there was always the chance that artists such as Sierra Ferrell…

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GPUs and how the cloud is changing (with Cedana Founder, Neel Master) 42:48

8M ago42:48

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What’s going on with GPUs? We talk through the GPU bottleneck/supply gut, Meta’s apparent 600,000 H100-equivalents and the future of the GPU cloud. Neel Master is the CEO and founder of Cedana, enabling pause/migrate/resume for compute jobs. Neel is a serial entrepreneur, former founder of Engooden and angel investor. He started his career in ML re…

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An Update, and Two Quick Takes With Tony Trischka and Travis Book 16:09

8M ago16:09

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Here at Southern Songs and Stories, there is never a shortage of stories to draw from a seemingly bottomless well of music artists; we only scratch the surface of what we would love for you to hear on this series. But even with that, we have a parallel problem, a good problem if you will, of having a whole lot of material on hand waiting to make it…

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Live Video Translation with AI 28:37

8M ago28:37

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Founders of Lingopal, Deven Orie and Casey Schneider, join to talk about their startup story, developing real-time translation software for enterprises. Topics include: Why is translation so hard? How are enterprise and consumer AI products different (e.g. Google Translate vs Lingopal)? Should AI product companies be doing AI research? Is it safe t…

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Is open-source AI safe? (with SafeLlama founder, Enoch Kan) 36:55

8M ago36:55

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Founder of the SafeLlama community, Enoch Kan joins us today, to talk about safety in open source and medical AI. Enoch previously worked in AI for radiology, focused on mammography at Kheiron Medical. Enoch is an open source contributor, and his substack is called Cross Validated. Key topics they discuss include: New jailbreaks for LLMs appear eve…

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