Abby Fisher

Episode 41: Entrepreneurship has been a recurring theme on the podcast. Both Donnie Johns and Joe Gramley both focus heavily on the idea of percussionists being entrepreneurs within their educational ...

28 Jul 202131min

Episode 40: Todd Meehan, Andrea Venet and Matthew Lau are distinctly creative in their own unique career paths. In this best of episode, we travel back to some of our first conversations and explore h...

14 Jul 202131min

Episode 39: Katy Elman is a friend of BSP and owner of Southern Percussion in the UK. Being a trained musician, attending music schools from an early age, Katy ultimately had a unique opportunity to ...

30 Jun 20211h

Episode 38 with Ivan Trevino If you’re unfamiliar with Ivan Trevino’s compositions and work with The Big Trouble, it’s definitely worth a Google. A diverse collection of musical genres, instrumentatio...

16 Jun 20211h 8min

Episode 37 with Michael Ptacin Michael Ptacin is a recent BSP Concert Artist, but actually someone we’ve known since meeting at a convention years ago. He’s got his hands in all sorts of stuff like mu...

3 Jun 20211h 12min

Episode 36 with Maria Flurry Maria Flurry has been a long time friend and supporter of Black Swamp Percussion. She knew Eric in the early years of BSP, used to work PAS conventions with us, and has al...

19 Mai 202148min

Episode 35 with Josh Smith After catching up a bit about family, travel and life, we learn more about some of Josh’s professional development and his music publishing company Ox & Lamb. He’s got a gre...

5 Mai 20211h 12min

Episode 34 with Colleen Bernstein Colleen Bernstein is Black Swamp Concert Artist heavily involved in arts education, performance collaboration, diversity awareness and community engagement. Strength ...

21 Apr 20211h 11min