Sway Songs with Suzi

A serendipitous meeting at a podcast session at SXSW EDU introduced me to Morgan McCray, a high school senior at Oakland Catholic High School in Pittsburgh. Rather than pretend to design a podcast, which was our assignment at the session, we decided to make one! I enjoyed hearing from someone with a bright future who gives me hope about the future leaders in the USA. Morgan is a current Youth Boar...

I’ll let this episode speak for itself. Special thanks to Isabelle for her heartfelt spoken contribution of her thoughts about Sinead, and to the others who recorded clips but had some tech challenges. Thanks to Giannos Kanellopoylos for allowing me to use the photo she took this week in Bray of Sinead’s grave. I did not build a playlist as I usually do for each episode. Sinead’s entire catalog wo...

This episode returns to the roots of the podcast - talking with friends about music. But there’s a narrative that goes beyond a shared love for music. You’ll learn that April Donovan and I breached our brains within a few days of each other back in 2018. We met a year a later and now we’re in a band - Funky Cranium. April is a rapper, singer, and glocker (glockenspiel player) in her two bands, Vit...

After interviewing Sophie Mathieu, I was grateful to be friends with her family and excited to follow her career going forward. She made me feel like the world is in good hands with Gen Z-ers (and others). I sent her the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), hoping she’d compose music I can use in my teaching. I was inspired by her varied musical interests and ideas were running through my hea...

I was not sure how it would go talking to a complete stranger for this episode. And I was still figuring out my tech platform. Pleasant surprises on both fronts! James and I had exchanged a few emails that resulted in this episode, but I had no idea what would happen. I figured he’d be enthusiastic because he agreed to be on the podcast. And he was so joyous and passionate about his music! He was...

In this episode, my friend Jim and I talk about our musical touchpoints at the age of 15 and beyond. How have our tastes evolved? What inspires us now? Unfortunately, my Mac fan joined our conversation as a third guest soon after we started. I’ll shore up my tech for the next episode. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting up at Jim’s house to ramble on about our favorite music and its effect on us. Hope y...

I love talking music and decided to try the podcast format. Episode 0 is just me introducing the series. The remaining episodes will be discussions with other people. Those of you who are readers are on my list as potential guests. Please post here, reply, or post on the socials what you think. Also, is it easy to access this on substack? Should I move it to a podcast platform? I just don’t want a...