The Musician's Guide To Everything
Whether you're a young musician trying to figure out how it all works, a touring band looking for some tour bus entertainment or a fan of music and musicians craving some inside info on what happens up there on that stage, grab your backstage pass and come on in for a hearty dose of truth from the people who live out there in that endless wilderness. Or something like that.....
The Musician's Guide To Everything
Episode 14: Richard D. Walter, PhD
Ethnomusicology. That's right. Rich is an expert on human cultures and their musical goings-on. Which comes in handy when you are curating one of the largest collections of musical instruments in the world, the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM). But it's not all just book learnin'. He's a champion banjo player and not too shabby on the guitar and mandolin too. He's also a driving force in the effort to communicate the value of art and music in people's lives. Come on in and enjoy this wide-ranging conversation about instruments, music and the human drive to create it.