The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.077: PETER LEVIN [keys – Gregg Allman, Blind Boys AL, The Highwomen] + Summer Tours ’24 Preview w/ J.A.

Peter has collaborated with legends like the late, great Gregg Allman, cultural institutions such as the Allman Brothers Band and Blind Boys of Alabama, rising stars i.e. Amanda Shires, and appears on the award-winning album The Highwomen.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.076: AGENT 23 – Granola Funk Express [mc/educator/Grammy-winning artist – SECRET AGENT 23 SKIDOO]

Agent 23 aka Cactus aka Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, welcome to The Upful Life Podcast! A founding member of pioneering Asheville-based live hip-hop collective Granola Funk Express (GFE). A progenitor of “family hip-hop” with his Secret Agent 23 Skidoo project, which took home a Grammy in 2019 for Best Children’s Album. Cactus is a published author of several books, and a prolific educator around the country for kids of all ages and backgrounds.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.075: KRUDER & DORFMEISTER

Live n’ direct from their studio in Vienna, Austria, iconic electronic producer/DJ duo KRUDER AND DORFMEISTER tap into The Upful LIFE Podcast for Episode 075. Colorful, humorous, poignant, a career-spanning joyride in the wayback machine with a pair of global pioneers.

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Brooklyn’s SAY SHE SHE Sizzles & Gets Political At Sold-Out Hopmonk In Novato, CA [REVIEW]

With a glistening mirrorball twirling atop a bustling dancefloor, Brooklyn-based phenoms SAY SHE SHE sauntered into the sleepy North Bay town of Novato on a February Tuesday, touring in support of magnificent sophomore LP Silver.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.074: ROGERS STEVENS [guitarist/co-founder BLIND MELON]

Welcome ROGERS STEVENS, guitarist/co-founder of Blind Melon – as well as Towne & Stevens – to Episode 073! A dream come true for your host, an unabashed lifelong Blind Melon fanatic. Rogers joins the pod from his cozy home studio just outside Philadelphia for a 90-min conversation about his career – past, present, and future.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.073: MARYA STARK [singer-songwriter] + WREN LIZABETH [herbalist- The NOHM Co.]

Welcome to Episode 073 a magnificent multi-instrumentalist, multimedia enchantress, self-confessed storyteller, bard, and muse! The great MARYA STARK sits down for a career-spanning conversation. A second, equally-illuminating chat follows with WREN LIZABETH, an herbalist, permaculturist, and educator, founder of alternative holistic health/self-care collective The NOHM Co., & elixir line The MerTails.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – Ep.072: ALEX WASILY [Dumpstaphunk, Francis Comes Alive, very good trombonist]

#VeryGood trombonist with NOLA institution Dumpstaphunk since 2016; musical director of Francis Comes Alive, Neal Francis new 11-piece big band experience and concert film.

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The Upful LIFE Podcast – 070: PAPA MALI [solo, 7 Walkers, Shantytown Underground,] + RIP Russell Batiste Jr.

Based in NOLA for the past dozen years, Papa Mali is a certified rock n’ roll troubadour, having lived several musical lives in numerous locales across the past half-century. A conversation brimming with detailed ruminations and colorful pointifications. A living breathing chameleonic musicologist in our midst.

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