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From nearly the start of their romance, author Joni Sensel knew she would lose the man she loved after experiencing a dark premonition. Though she kept this secret, upon his death she was compelled to share it in her memoir, “Feeling Fate: A Memoir of Love, Intuition, and Spirit.” In this interview, we talk about the premonition and how she knew it was real, sharing the story with her family, and what she's chosen to include in the book. After that, the Americana band June Star and I dive into their new album, “How We See It Now,” their 17th release to date. Band members Andrew Grimm and Dave Hadley talk about the new directions they went in with this one and some of the folks they worked with. June Star is part of a really cool Boston show on June 28, but they also have more than 50 shows planned for the summer. We look at some of their stops, favorite places to play, and how they manage such a busy schedule. Plus, the guys play a couple songs for us!
co-hosts Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry chat about what's coming up for Season 5 and say aufwiedersehen to the year that was.
co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm discuss how ridiculous the word "normal" is and how it's completely normal to be experiencing an insidious "psychological reflux."
co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm discuss a recent interaction with the notorious "internet troll." All's well that ends well.
co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm have a chat, on this, the holiest of American Sports High Holy Days.
co-hosts Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry share their thoughts, as human beings, on what it feels like to be an American during the transition from the cruelty of the Trump/Pence Adminstration to the promise and hope of the Biden/Harris one.
THE FINAL FOUR!! In this episode I'm joined by my two favorite water cooler buddies from work, Andrew and Jake. These two bring hot takes to the table about the tow big matchups this weekend, KC/BUF and TB/GB. There are big matchups in both games that we dive into heavy, and we give you the audience a ton of laughs along the way. In addition to the two big games we talk more NFL coaching carousel, what is going on with certain QBs in limbo in the NFL, as well as another MJ/Lebron debate to wrap it up! Tune in for a good time!!
co-hosts and generally goal oriented folx, Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry speak of the confounding nature of setting your mind to something and then finding out what happens.
co hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm inspire the heck out of themselves by living in the past, which ain't goin' nowhere.
co-hosts Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry further ensure their future non-famousness by talking about how two famous people truly disappointed them.
Co-hosts Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry work to see if these microphones are even plugged in during this special episode about how quietly we must speak in this world just to be heard.
co-hosts and practicers-of-instruments, ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm plumb the depths of what it means to practice for an audience of the self.
co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm are independent musicians, living in America (currently leading in COVID19 infections! USA!) They return to restart Season 4 of their erstwhile podcast, by rewinding the clock back to Season One's surprise essay format. This week's prompt is: audience. Listen in and wear your mask any time you are outside your home. The virus is real.
Vanavond alweer aflevering 400 met muziek van Frankie Lee, Elvis Costello, Aosem, Andrew Grimm en Randall Bramblett.
co-host ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm host Pittsburgh musician and songwriter (and previous WAYF guest!) Ben Shannon, to chat about being creative in this new abnormal.
Author Charita Cole Brown comes by the studio to chat about living with bi-polar disorder and how she has not let the diagnosis dictate the story of her life. Join co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm in a wide-ranging conversation with Brown about her decision to "defy the verdict!"
co-hosts Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry sit with community builder, beautician, and owner of Baltimore's Chop Shop, Lisa Hawks, for a deeper dive into what gets talked about when you're in the hairdresser's chair.
Co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm chat with Baltimore-based author, multi-media artist & performer, Rahne Alexander to discuss her new collection of essays, "Heretic to Housewife" and SO much more, y'all. It gets deeeeep.
Co hosts and erstwhile traveling troubadours, ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm chat about the upcoming June tour planning and contemplate the meaning of natural personhood. Preview for the upcoming episode with writer, activist, musician and performer, Rahne Alexander!
Co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm sit down for a chat with Baltimore based comedian, Umar Khan to talk about the curious world of making people laugh about things that might make them cry and the difference between happiness and contentment. You can view Umar’s comedy special (filmed in B’more!) by clicking on this link HERE.Please note: The opinions, thoughts, ideas and sighs expressed by any guest on WAYF? Podcast are theirs. The co-hosts are also accountable for the things they say and the way they look in pictures.
Baltimore based musicians and songwriters and erstwhile podcasters re-convene to discuss the Winter Tour That Was and the Summer Tour That Will Be. Information about ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm by clicking on their hyperlinks, yo!
1993 Essay May 2, 2019 When I was in my twenties I decided to conduct an experiment meant to test randomness and if randomness led to any noticeable patterns. I took all of my t-shirts and threw them into a gigantic pile in the middle of the cedar closet at my Mom's house. She was gracious enough to let me stay there after I stopped going to college. Every day I would close my eyes and root around the pile of literally hundreds of shirts and that'd be my shirt for the day. Once at a party my random shirt happened to be an old hospital shirt. A friend said something along the lines of "look at Tude. Most people go to the hospital and wear a shirt out. When they get home they throw it away or use it as a rag. Tude wears it to a party." That still gives me a chuckle. What did I learn? Randomness is random. It led down a deconstructionist path that was essential in putting together the pieces for the never ending opera. Everything is arbitrary if you go back far enough. When I was a kid I read rock and roll biographies. Dave Marsh was my favorite. Later Lester Bangs was a god to me. Leg's McNeil writing for Spin was a golden age of magazine journalism. But I realized eventually, tracing the music I love back further and further, that rock and roll itself was a lie shouted by narcissistic Baby Boomers who had the good fortune of never having to face down an existential threat to their comfort. The 'Nam draftees are not included in my vitriol. They faced two enemies, Ho Chi Minn and Nixon. Hah! Where was I? Rock and roll was, is, and always will be a lie. The fact of the matter is that it's the same stuff that folk musicians had been doing for millennia. It wasn't special. Nothing is special. When you are born is arbitrary. The music of your youth is not special. You are not special. What's this got to do with the song 1993? Wouldn't YOU like to know! I'll tell you. Remember a while back when the Hubble telescope was pointed at empty space and eventually it photographed a gazillion galaxies? That's the existential angst of arbitrary randomness right there. I fixed point in time and space, unassuming, nothing special about it (just like you) and yet, focus on it for an instant and it's the most spectacular thing ever in the cosmos. Just a tiny instant of focus and that specific reality is transformed, nothing into everything. Did it lose it's tag of nothingness when the discovery of everything was made? Does the discovery define that point in space? Did it even exist before the Hubble pointed at it? Deconstruct it further. To paraphrase Sam Kinison "we've hit another vein, mine deeper." 1993 is an arbitrary year picked at random with the specific idea of deconstructing it month by month and season by season to see what stories are told. The song birthed the concept with this'n. I wrote it for Doom Cookie. As a matter of fact the only reason this entry into the Never Ending Opera isn't under the name of Doom Cookie is that I made Brian promise that he would never let me stray from the Society Fringe Player name with future projects. He said it was smarter to be like my buddy Andrew Grimm, aka June Star, and keep the name forever whilst changing up the players. Musically this song, through Paul's mixing, really accentuates the riff. In me pea-brain I always heard a fiddle playing the riff. I even borrowed one with the intent that I'd learn it enough to play the part when we recorded it but ALAS nyet! I really want to hammer home the arbitrary underpinnings of all existence. It's arbitrary where you are born. It's arbitrary to what nation you owe allegiance. It's arbitrary which god was foisted upon you as a child. It's arbitrary if you dig your own gender. It's arbitrary if you get cancer. It's arbitrary if you have fun playing the guitar. Nothing is according to any plan. Keep deconstructing everything, eventually you'll get to a point of vacant nothingness and in a moment of mental anti-obliteration you'll realize that the entire everything was there the whole fucking time.
Best Collaborators of the Year (according to WTMD in Baltimore) and your gracious co-hosts, ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm are both surprised and elated to be awarded this award, Best Collaboration of the Year in WTMD's Alternative Music Awards, 2019. Wheee! All our hard work is finally recognized. Thank you WTMD! (And then we just kind of ramble.....you know, the usual.)
co-hosts of (as of Feb 28, 2019) award-winning "Why Aren't You Famous?" Podcast, ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm decide that the only way to avoid complacency is to.....record a random, meandering conversation about complacency....and also their songwriting processes, because....they can! Also, it's February Album Writing Month (www.fawm.org) and they will play and discuss some songs they've written for the challenge.
Your fearless (and road weary) hosts, ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm meet up with Columbus, OH-based songwriter, Lou Poster to talk about the special kind of madness it takes to see if you can fly a motorcycle over a canyon. Ya know, the same sensation one gets one when one performs the most vulnerable song one ever wrote in front of one's peers.
co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm find themselves in Birmingham, AL, with Keith Harrelson, proprietor of a Deep South Listening Room called 'Moonlight on the Mountain.' Grimm & cherry frequently toured through and played this highly sought-after venue over the years and, quite luckily, founded a life-long friendship with Keith. With a rich-as-molasses voice, Keith wanted to write on a whimsical topic: finding love in the dollar store.
co-hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm travel to Charlotte, NC, to visit with cherry's really really good friend of 27 years, Josh Villapando. Josh is the owner and Wine Schnerbly of Assorted Table Wine Shoppe in Charlotte, and he and cherry used to bounce tracks down on a Tascam Porta-3 in the 1990s, yo. Go to school, don't be a fool....get an education!
Co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm just sayin' hi after the tour. A little recap, if you will.
Your humble hosts, ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm, traveled to Sooke, BC, which is on freakin' beautiful Vancouver Island, to meet with songwriter and teller-of-tales, Katrina Kadoski. A free flowing conversation about what it takes to let go and how to turn the page to see what's next.
Co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm meet up with Portland’s Michael Dean Damron to ruminate on the one experience that every living thing shares: dying. A heartfelt and honest conversation about fear and hope, with a hearty dose of expletives.
Co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm are seriously just trying to make you laugh, by making themselves laugh. They have to keep their podcasting chops up while they wait to travel to the next place, so listen in on this little snippet of some time shared and some laughs along the way.
Songwriters ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm review the first three episodes of Season Two of Why Aren't You Famous? Podcast, revealing their favorite moments and chatting it up. This episode is sponsored by a new dating app, Cringr. "For when you want to have a regrettable dating experience, swipe dowwwwnnnn."
Co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm find themselves in conversation with songwriter Matt Monta about the topic of change. Why we do it (do we haaaaave toooooo?) and maybe some ways to navigate it. It is after all, the Law of the Universe. Evolution: change or......perish. (Cue dramatic music.)
Co-hosts ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm meet up with fellow music revolutionary Don Duprie ("Doop"), the unofficial mayor (and a full-time firefighter) of River Rouge, MI, to show three different perspectives honoring the working class.
co hosts ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm meet with Pittsburgh musician and songwriter, Ben Shannon and talk about compulsive behavior, energy flow, skateboarding, music and more! They also reveal three new songs that they each wrote centered around the topic of compulsion.
Musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm consider the topic of ambition. They have an ambition to remain obscure. It's working!!!
Absolutely non-famous musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm discuss the depth and breadth of their inability to become celebrities.
Baltimore area musicians Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry discuss how disappointed they are that their parents weren't famous, so how the heck could they do it!?!
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm explore the idea of fame and why it just happens to be so darn trendy.
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm ponder if they have even a shred of self worth left. And the results are in! They do. Your gracious hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured Song: "Stinkbug in My Brownie" by Joe Keyes and The Late Bloomer Band
Baltimore "musicians" ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm calculate the cost of fame and it turns out, it maybe ain't worth payin'. yer hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured Song "Mama" by David Childers http://www.davidchilders.com/
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm discuss the economics of both famous people (talk about talking about something you know nothing about!) and the economics of hustling as an indie musician. Plus, a bunch of other stuff. Your gracious hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured song is "He's Alright" by June Star: www.junestar.bandcamp.com
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm get emotionally naked on this special episode about vulnerability. If you're not turned off, tune in! Your hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured Song is "Passing Season" by Naked Blue & ellen cherry
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm ponder their own mortality and the mortality of others in this episode where they actually say the word "death question mark?" quite a bit. your hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured song "The Wilder" by Luray: https://luray.bandcamp.com/album/the-wilder-2
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm make themselves accountable. For. Everything. your hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured Song "Heavy Petting" by Brooks Long and the Mad Dog No Good: https://brookslong.com/music
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm have drawn a blank on this week's episode. ....Or have they? Your hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured Song "Hope, AR" by Jon Nolan: https://www.jonnolan.net/home
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm are on tour! A week on the road and this is what they've got to say about not being famous (it don't matter!!) Your gracious hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured song "Building a Road" by Andrew Norsworthy: https://andrewnorsworthy.wordpress.com/music/stateside/
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry and Andrew Grimm are out on the road! This is a tour update from North Carolina on one of the last stops of a two week tour where they absolutely, definitively proved that they are NOT famous!! Your obscure hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured song: "Seven Stars" by Mary Battiata http://www.littlepinktheband.com/listenbuy.htm
Baltimore musicians ellen cherry & Andrew Grimm have proved that they are NOT famous (esp in Tulsa, OK!) This episode features Columbus, OH, songwriter, Matt Monta--who might one day actually have a shot at being famous because he's a dang good songwriter. Your hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Recorded in front of a live, studio audience at the Four Hour Day Lutherie, Baltimore, MD, on March 25, 2018.
Baltimore musicians Andrew Grimm and ellen cherry have now proven that they are definitely, for sure, not famous...at least for now. Check out the epilogue to SEASON ONE and hear about what's coming up for Season Two. See ya! Co-hosts: ellencherry.com junestar.com Featured live songs from your dear hosts with mosts.
With about a dozen albums under his belt, Andrew Grimm of June Star speaks from wisdom. We get real about “making it” and about taking things into your own hands when it’s not happening like you’d like i.e. a Facebook Live tour. June Star’s latest will be out in April. I got a sneak peak … Continue reading 39. June Star
With about a dozen albums under his belt, Andrew Grimm of June Star speaks from wisdom. We get real about “making it” and about taking things into your own hands when it’s not happening like you’d like i.e. a Facebook Live tour. June Star’s latest will be out in April. I got a sneak peak … Continue reading 39. June Star
December 26, 2016 #YaJagoffPodcast / Episode #052 From the Wheeling Nailers Game with the Wheelin’ Feelin’ Our first podcast road trip... from WesBanco Arena and the Wheeling Nailers game with some stocking stuffer chit-chat just before the game against Cincinnati. Guests: Sarah Aziz from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust with First Night updates and prizes, Wheeling Nailers Coach (former Pens player) Jeff Christian, West Virginia House of Delegates Rep. Shawn Fluharty, and then Kelly Clutter (VP of Marketing, Wheeling Nailers, Brian Stefan (Co-owner of Sports Monger and Marketing Media) and Andrew Grimm (Hockey writer for Sports Monger) join us for stocking-stuffer chat! VIEW the Episode Promo Video: https://youtu.be/-msiSF3c9Zo LISTEN to the Podcast show right here below or on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Tunein Radio via the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” channel. YaJagoff! Podcast - Show Notes: Music: West Virginia Band, Davisson Brothers Band “Jesse James” 01:09 Wayne Weil packed up the podcast gear and we hit the road! We are in the lobby of WesBanco Arena just before the Nailers game against the Cincinnati Cyclones. You won’t hear it on the podcast but, between periods 1 and 2 we went on the ice to judge the ugly sweater contest! Everyone tells a stocking stuffer story! 03:43 Sarah Aziz, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust goes through the AWESOME list of events for Highmark Pittsburgh First Night (including telling the inside info about where the smart phone charging stations will be) 12:43 The head coach of the Wheeling Nailers, Jeff Christian, has a stocking stuffer story, great chat about his friendship with Bill Guerin and his tips for Craig’s boys playing knee hockey at home! 24:05 West Virginia Delegate, Shawn Fluharty joins us. Shawn has an awesome vision for growth in the Wheeling area AND bought us a beer (which Craig spilled). 34:01 Kelly Clutter, Brian Stefan and Andrew Grimm (our gracious hosts and connections to nachos and beer) have stocking stuffer stories. You can hear Andrew’s tie sing! Big thanks to the Wheeling Nailers organization and Sports Monger (Did You See That Now) for having us and actually allowing us in the building! Definitely make a point to go see some Wheeling Nailers games! See Andrew’s write-up about the game here. Find daily #Jagoffs posts at www.YaJagoff.com How to Listen Regularly: All shows on the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” are free and available to listen 24/7/365 worldwide. Audio On-Demand in-your-hand, on smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop computers. – APPLE users can find us on the iTunes and Podcast app. – ANDROID users can find us on Google Play Music, – ALL users can listen on computers, tablets, and smartphones via RSS, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts or tune in radio, website or apps. * SEARCH: Pittsburgh Podcast Network iTunes • Google Play Music • SoundCloud • tunein radio • RSS • Website Thanks, To: Photo Credits: The Pittsburgh Podcast Network Production: Frank Murgia and Wayne Weil How to Follow Everyone on Twitter: The Podcast@YaJagoffPodcast John Chamberlin@YaJagoff Craig Tumas@CraigTumas John Knight@JKnight841 Wheeling Nailers @WheelingNailers Brian Stefan @GolfMonger Jason Havelcka @SportsMongerPgh Davisson Brothers Band @DavissonBroBand First Night Pittsburgh @FirstNightPGH Coach Jeff Christian @JeffChristian72 Shawn Fluharty @WVUFLU Andrew Grimm @AGrimm2 Pittsburgh Podcast Network@PghPodcast Produced at talent network, inc. @talentnetworktv by the Pittsburgh Podcast Network @pghpodcast