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Talking Up Music Education is a podcast from The NAMM Foundation hosted by Mary Luehrsen that celebrates music learning through conversations with artists, teachers and students, music busin...

Mark Phillips, acting president of the Historic Black College and Universities Band Directors Consortium, shares thoughts on the importance...

Music educator Anne Fennell reflects on the joy of teaching music, the limitless potential for creativity in music learning and re-imagining...

Staff from the Museum of Making Music- Carolyn Grant and B.J. Morgan- reflect on the universal language of music, pivoting to online program...

Composer Eric Whitacre was inspired to write Sing Gently; a new piece to share through Virtual Choir 6. In a time of crisis and isolation Wh...

Mandi Jackson, Executive Director Music Haven shares thoughts about equity and access to music education and virtual music as a life line fo...

As the youngest of five children, Victor Wooten’s musical family needed a bass player. The rest is history. In this episode, the 5-time GRAM...

A special “Flipping the Script” episode recorded LIVE at The 2020 NAMM Show features John Mlynczak interviewing Mary Luehrsen, Executive Dir...

Violinist Laura Escudé chats with Mary Luehrsen about her early beginnings as a music student playing in orchestras and her career creating...

Scott Page, musician, technologist, entrepreneur and performer, is widely recognized as the saxophonist/guitarist for Pink Floyd, Supertramp...

Grand prize winners of the first-ever A Cappella at NAMM, student leaders of UCLA’s ScatterTones discuss their performance at the Grand Rall...

NAMM member Mark Despotakis discusses the importance of bringing everyone to the table to advance music education advocacy efforts, the valu...

Arts education leader Eric Booth spent the last 13 years working with El Sistema-inspired programs that bring music education opportunities...

Steve Venz, Chief Program Officer of Little Kids Rock -a NAMM Foundation grantee- shares his insight as a devoted music education advocate i...

Stephanie Landino, senior at Millersville University, PA chats about attending The 2019 NAMM Show through the GenNext program and how it boo...

Chris Martin, president and CEO of Martin Guitar, discusses his recent role as Founding-Chair of The NAMM Foundation. Martin chats about a f...

Mike Reisman, President of MKTG, reflects on the life and loves of his late wife Liz Reisman: playing the flute, a vision for music educatio...

Robert Morrison, founder of Quadrant Arts Education Research, the nation’s leading arts education research and intelligence organization, jo...

Bernie Williams joins guest host Joe Lamond, president and CEO of NAMM, at NASMD. Bernie shares how his resiliency and determination in both...

NAMM Young Professionals (NAMM YP) is a network of music industry professionals under the age of 40. Several NAMM YP’ers joined us live at N...

Mike Meyer- of Meyer Music and current president of the National Association of School Dealers- discusses his motivation for making sure mus...

Fred Schiff of All County Music chats about how music is bringing layers of healing to the Parkland, Florida community after the shooting at...

Peter Luongo and 16 members of the Peter Luongo Ukulele Experience stop in for a lively discussion about learning literacy - learning a lang...

Sam Gronseth from Paradise, California sits down with Mary Luehrsen to talk about the remarkable work that he's done to bring hope and heali...

Rich Redmond is a professional percussionist, music educator, and a motivational speaker. As a traveling musician, he has a versatility and...

Len Horowitz from History of Recorded Sound in Culver City, California devoted his professional recording engineering career to analog resto...

Jonathan Dely joined us at the Grand Rally for Music Education. As a jazz trumpeter, he fronts a very diverse and eclectic group of musician...

J. Dash discusses his musical career, the fellowship of musicians, and advocacy for music education. He plays an original composition, and t...

Mary Luehrsen chats with members of the historic black college and university, HBCU Band Directors’ Consortium. Guests are Thomas Warner Jr....

Gibson artist Gina Chavez got her start in the Austin Independent School District where she discovered a love of singing. From the moment sh...

Conductor and Composer Eric Whitacre shares his love of music and astrophysics and talks about how they intersect for him. A musical child,...

Black Violin’s Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste stopped by to catch up with Mary Luehrsen before opening The 2019 NAMM Show with their “90 minute...

Guest host Claire Kreger-Boaz, Senior Project Manager at The NAMM Foundation talks to Randy Barnett, recipient of the 2018 John Patrick Hugh...

Guest host Claire Kreger-Boaz, Senior Project Manager at The NAMM Foundation chats with Joshua Simonds, Executive Director of the Percussive...

Guest host James Stephens, Director of Advocacy and Educational Resources at Music for All talks with band directors and drum majors from Am...

Guest host Mark Goff, owner of Paige’s Music explores, through an in-depth interview with Eric Martin, President and CEO of Music for All, B...

Guest host Marcia Neel, Senior Director of Education at Yamaha talks with Dr. Reginald McDonald, Director of Bands at Tennessee State Univer...

Gator Cases CEO Crystal Morris is on a quest to grow her company; to continuously learn and innovate as a leader; and to encourage other wom...

Nashville-based drummer and percussionist Aaron "A Train" Smith played drums with Motown greats, including on The Temptations hit, "Papa Was...

Kala artist, vocalist, and America's Got Talent contestant Mandy Harvey found her voice after a devastating hearing loss that derailed her p...

NAMM Chair and President and CEO of West Music Robin Walenta and Executive Vice President and Co-owner of Heid Music DeDe Heid discuss their...

American folklore scholar and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Bill Ivey explores ideas for how to achieve meaning and...

2018 American Eagle Award honorees Cheryl Bentyne, Alan Paul, and Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer share their musical origin stories,...

Professional vocalist and musician Thomas Claxton just might be the hardest working musician you haven't heard of... yet. With more than 300...

Country music band Parmalee was raised on a diet of southern rock, country, and blues. They've played on country music’s biggest stages, lan...

Mike DiCesare, co-founder and President of Jamboxx shares his commitment to making a product that allows everyone to play music, regardless...

Arabian Prince got his start in Compton where his mother was a piano teacher and his father was a radio talk show host. He developed an affi...

Forte Tenors Josh Page, Alok Kumar, and Zach Page talk about finding their voices as young men; their musical influences; training like a te...

Vanessa Carlton, 2018 NAMM Foundation SupportMusic Champion Award recipient, gets real with host Mary Luehrsen about becoming a super star b...

NAfME and The NAMM Foundation have worked together on music education advocacy initiatives for many years. In this episode of Talking Up Mus...

Partners and collaborators from AEP, NAESP and The NAMM Foundation get specific on how to create resources that are accessible and informati...