Bill Harley is a great storyteller, and as you might expect, he's a great conversationalist, too.

In this episode, I talk with Harley about sabbaticals -- he recently completed one, and I wanted to find out what it's like, what he gained, and what he'd suggest for anyone else interested in taking a break from their day-to-day life.

(Photo credit: Debbie Block)

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Links

Bill Harley

Bill Harley blog

Bill Harley on Facebook

The definition of "sabbath"

Providence Athenaeum Library

Berklee College of Music online

Charlie Bumpers book series

Bill's occasional partner in crime Keith Munslow

[Bill remembered after our conversation he's also participating in the Ashokan Family Camp]

Molly Ledford is about to go on a great adventure.

A great space puppet musical adventure, that is.

In this episode, I talk with the guitarist/songwriter for the South Carolina band Lunch Money about the world premiere of the musical Planet Hopping that the band has created with  Belle et Bête, a South Carolina-based puppetry duo.  If you are at all near the Columbia, South Carolina area this weekend (Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 & 16), do attend, but even if you can't be, listen and find out more about the musical and about stretching in new areas can help you out in the old areas.

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Links

Lunch Money

Lunch Money on Facebook

Belle et Bête

Promotional video for the show

This episode is more kindie-focused than most here at MOOG.  It features a conversation with Brady Rymer, a successful kindie musician in his own right leading Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could, but since earlier this year also the bass player in The Laurie Berkner Band.  We talk about what it's like to sometimes play second fiddle after many years playing first, learning from Laurie, and how to balance both sides of that musical life.

Links 

Brady Rymer homepage

Laurie Berkner homepage

Brady Rymer tour dates 

Laurie Berkner Band tour dates 

From Good Homes

This episode features Darren Critz, the Director of Performing Arts for New York City's Symphony Space.  Darren is not​ a sports fan.  We talk about childhood sporting memories, the similarities and differences between watching performing arts and sports, and deciding how much sports to bring into our kids' lives.  Also, the 1976 Olympics discus event.

Links​

Symphony Space

Just Kidding at Symphony Space

​Symphony Space Live (performance recordings)

1976 Olympics discus event​

This episode features Ashley Albert, the genius behind kid rockers The Jimmies.  In this episode, she talks about her newest (and biggest) project, the soon-to-be-opening Royal Palms Shuffleboard Parlor, its inspiration, and how she finds time (or doesn't) to follow her many obsessions.​

Links​

The Jimmies​

Royal Palms Shuffleboard Parlor​

Survival of the Hippest

Ashley on Twitter​

Rules of shuffleboard

With much better luck than I had in my initial attempt to get the Kindie Week in Review podcast up into iTunes, the feed for this podcast got picked up pretty quickly.  So, if you go to this link, you'll be automagically directed to the iTunes Store page for the podcast.  Please subscribe and rate and review the podcast, no matter what your opinion -- subscriptions and ratings help the podcast's visibility in iTunes generally.​

And if you use something besides Apple's Podcasts app (such as, say, iTunes on your computer) you can always enter this link direct into your podcasting app: http://zooglobble.com/my-other-other-gig?format=rss

​Thanks for listening.  At the moment, this won't be quite weekly in nature, but I've got interviews lined up, so be patient -- more MOOG-y goodness is on its way.

This week's episode features Jeff Bogle from Out With the Kids.​  We chat about his children's-book-in-progress, The Pen That Never Drew​, its inspiration and what it's like to turn over your creation to others for editing.

Links​

Out With the Kids​

Iron Hill Brewery

Kate Messner / KidLit Cares​

Chronicle Books​

Finding Dory​

Coert Voorhees / Grammaropolis​

Lloyd Miller / The Deedle Deedle Dees​

Stephanie Mayers / Festival Five / Kindiefest

Cooper & Kid

I've started a new podcast called "My Other​ Other Gig."  Unlike Kindie Week in Review, which up 'til now has almost exclusively featured me talking to myself (and, sometimes, our dog, asleep in the corner of the office) about kids music, this podcast will feature conversations with people about non-kids-music-related items.

The name is based on the idea that a lot of kindie musicians and folks in the field got into it as their sideline, their "other gig."  And while for some them, it's now their full-time thing, I've often found in talking with them at events like Kindiefest that their obsessions are, as you might expect, broad and not limited to kids music or even music generally.​  They've got lots of other​ other gigs.

This podcast wants to explore those fields with those interesting people.  Themes like creativity and passion and time management will reoccur throughout ​the series, but I figure, where else are you going to hear about opening a shuffleboard hall and being a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan in the same podcast?

So I hope you'll stick around and subscribe.  Thanks in advance for listening.​