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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 392 - Ginny Armstrong
Manage episode 414543999 series 1090414
Iowa City-based percussionist, educator, and band leader Ginny Armstrong stops by to talk about her teaching responsibilities in and around Iowa, teaching community steel band, and performing regularly (03:50), growing up in West Virginia, playing organ, and getting into percussion (30:00), attending West Virginia University for her undergrad (44:30) and her master’s (59:15), moving to Nashville after her master’s, living and working there, and then going to the University of Iowa for her doctorate (01:09:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on being a woman in the field of percussion, cooking Thanksgiving dinner, great and terrible movies, David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris, Iowa women’s basketball, and some unusual gigs (01:30:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri and the chance to moderate a panel (02:01:30).
Ginny Armstrong link:
Other Links:
“Baja” - Steel band traditional
“Jamaica Farewell” - Steel Band Traditional
New Horizons International Music Association
Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra - Paul Creston
West Virginia vs. Iowa 2024 NCAA tourney
Chaconne in D Minor - JS Bach/marimba
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trailer
The Matrix Resurrections trailer
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga trailer
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
“Lay All Your Love on Me” - Caroline Shaw with Sö Percussion
Raves:
How Can I Help You - Laura Sims
Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel - Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharp, editors
102 episodes
Manage episode 414543999 series 1090414
Iowa City-based percussionist, educator, and band leader Ginny Armstrong stops by to talk about her teaching responsibilities in and around Iowa, teaching community steel band, and performing regularly (03:50), growing up in West Virginia, playing organ, and getting into percussion (30:00), attending West Virginia University for her undergrad (44:30) and her master’s (59:15), moving to Nashville after her master’s, living and working there, and then going to the University of Iowa for her doctorate (01:09:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on being a woman in the field of percussion, cooking Thanksgiving dinner, great and terrible movies, David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris, Iowa women’s basketball, and some unusual gigs (01:30:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri and the chance to moderate a panel (02:01:30).
Ginny Armstrong link:
Other Links:
“Baja” - Steel band traditional
“Jamaica Farewell” - Steel Band Traditional
New Horizons International Music Association
Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra - Paul Creston
West Virginia vs. Iowa 2024 NCAA tourney
Chaconne in D Minor - JS Bach/marimba
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trailer
The Matrix Resurrections trailer
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga trailer
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
“Lay All Your Love on Me” - Caroline Shaw with Sö Percussion
Raves:
How Can I Help You - Laura Sims
Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel - Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharp, editors
102 episodes
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