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What better way to celebrate “Valentine's Day” than to go to a place called “Loveless”…No but seriously…We loved going to this Iconic Nashville location that has quintessentially cornered the market for anything and everything Southern.Whether it is Jams, Jellies, Biscuits, Catfish, Chicken, Fried Green Tomatoes, or even Nashville Hot Chicken…This place makes it a point to do it all… And boy do they do it well!Minutes away from the iconic Americana Mecca of Leiper's Fork, and quite literally touching the Natchez Trace Parkway…The Loveless Cafe sits nestled in Nashville's Big Backyard.We encourage ANY and ALL of our fans… even if not for the chicken… visit and enjoy some amazing Jelly/Jam/Preserves… and get a Biscuit to go!Happy Valentine's Day & Happy Galentine's Day to all who celebrate!We are so thankful for #MyLoveless visit for this Season 2 Debut! So make this Spicy Pilgrimage to the Loveless Cafe and check out this week's episode of The HOT CHIX Podcast!The Loveless Cafe - You can find them on on their socials at:Insta: instagram.com/lovelesscafeFacebook: www.facebook.com/LovelessCafeWebsite: https://lovelesscafe.com/Address: 8400 TN-100 Nashville, TN 37221News Channel 5 Article & Video:https://www.newschannel5.com/news/meet-the-two-buddies-who-turned-their-nashville-hot-chicken-passion-into-a-podcastCheck out our Social Media at:Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556209613109Insta: @hotchixpodcastWebsite: www.hotchixpodcast.com (under construction)Email: hotchixpodcast@gmail.comHOT CHIX TEAM: Co-Hosts: Gregory Gillaspie & Alex Tinker IVPhotographer: Sydney Mullins Hot Chicken Historian: Mr. Sam Harrison(Upcoming) Merch: Jordin TinkerTheme Song: The 7 Deadly Sins (of Loving You) by Alex TinkerSingle from the album "Beehive Coke"Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0s9f5lhgp4s3EWmdYFGhlb?si=b20d04d799614d10Available now on all streaming platforms.If you enjoy this podcast: Please share with your friends and leave a review! It really helps!

Craig and Chris go to the highly popular tourist spot, Loveless Cafe, and it didn't disappoint.  Listen in to hear how the visit went.

Do you think you have the best Christmas Tree sitting in your backyard? Nashville is looking for one just like yours. Two well known Nashville restaurants have teamed up to make a treat out of their best sellers. Plus, we continue to show you how we XPLR Tennessee with our best experiences of Pigeon Forge during the fall.New YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjWKXfpjtNL0oL2R6MKSxwTake a Tour With Us! Use code NASH for 20% off - https://www.xplrnash.com/toursToday's Sponsors: Brad Reynolds  https://thinkbrad.com/Bowtie Barber Clubhttps://www.bowtiebarberclub.com/Nash NewsMetro Parks searching for Christmas tree to be used for citywide festivities this holiday seasonhttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/metro-parks-searching-for-christmas-tree-to-be-used-for-city-wide-festivities-this-holiday-seasonNashville staples Loveless Cafe, Goo Goo Clusters team up for decadent, limited-edition sweet treathttps://www.newschannel5.com/news/nashville-staples-loveless-cafe-goo-goo-clusters-team-up-for-decadent-limited-edition-sweet-treatPigeon Forge In The Fall - https://youtu.be/jUgh0VD_W1AThe Island - https://islandinpigeonforge.com/Titanic - https://titanicpigeonforge.com/Outdoor Gravity Park - https://www.outdoorgravitypark.com/Dollywood Theme Park - https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/Dollywood Resort and Spa - https://www.dollywood.com/resort/Pink Jeep Adventure Tours - https://www.pinkadventuretours.com/tours/smoky-mountain-toursNewfound Gap - https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/nfg.htmLumberjack Feud - https://lumberjackfeud.com/Pigeon Forge Snow - https://pigeonforgesnow.com/Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlist   https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASH   Website -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/   YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnash   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/   Twitter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nash   NASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - https://www.xplrnash.com/shopMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.life

On this episode, James Phillips returns to the porch to talk about his new business venture, The Community Journal, and New Era Wrestling. James and Terry also come up with a really good idea for a joint venture. Food Review This Episode is The Loveless Cafe in Nashville, TN. Terry also reads your answers for last Episode's Would You Rather question and gives a new question. Find The Community Journal on Facebook Find New Era Wrestling by typing in New Era Wrestling-Alabama 

It's another episode of the Wicked Tasty Weekly for April 29th, 2022.In this episode we have BREAKING NEWS to reveal! Those of you who follow us on our @wickedtasty Instagram have probably already seen, but we have launched the Wicked Tasty Mug Club!The Wicked Tasty Mug Club is Nashville's BEST Mug Club because it is 100% free to join and you get FREE BEER :)Text me your favorite Nashville Brewery at 615-240-2245 and you are in the club!The mission of the club is not to get anyone wasted or messed up. We are starting this club to bring our @wickedtasty community together IRL and support some local restaurants, bars and breweries in the process!Need weekend plans? We have 3 fun things for you to check out this weekend.1) Bacon, Eggs & Kegs Boozy Brunch Fest is taking place at First Horizon Part from 11 am - 3 pm on Saturday 4/30. Last chance tickets are $50 and include all you can enjoy bevs, with food available for purchase from vendors like Beginner's Luck, the Loveless Cafe, Birria Babe, Daddy's Dogs and more!https://www.baconeggsandkegs.com/nash...2) It is the last weekend of Spring Awakening Pop-Up at the Pool Club / Virgin Hotel. Spring is in full bloom at their rooftop oasis. Enjoy fresh florals and seasonal cocktails featuring Spade and Sparrows Wine, Patron Tequila, and Hendricks Gin. https://virginhotels.com/nashville/ev...3) Over in East Nashville, kick off pool season at the 1st Annual Dive Fest at the Dive Motel on April 30-May 1 from 1 pm - 11pm. Performances each night. Local artists, vintage sellers, and a tarot reader. Tickets required starting at $25. Sponsored by Patron & Mill Creek Brewinghttps://www.seetickets.us/event/DIVE-...A few more links for you...Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedtasty/Join our Mug Club: https://my.community.com/wickedtastym...

Bald Eagles take over a small portion of Tennessee. The Nashville Predators host a winter park prior to their Nissan Stadium debut. Plus, we go sky high with an overview of the progress BNA made in 2021.Become a subscriber! Visit us at https://www.patreon.com/nashvilledailyTake a Tour With Us! Use code NASH for 20% off - https://www.xplrnash.com/toursTEXT US: 615-392-1358Today's Sponsors: Screened ThreadsUse the Code "NashvilleDaily" for 10% off online and in-storehttps://screenedthreads.com/Blessed Day Coffeehttps://www.blesseddaycoffee.com/Use Code "XPLR20" for 20% off at checkoutNash NewsDozens of Bald Eagles Perched On Tennessee Trees https://fox17.com/news/offbeat/stunning-video-captures-dozens-of-bald-eagles-perched-on-tennessee-trees-wildlifePredators to Host Three Day Winter Park Ahead of Stadium Series https://www.newschannel5.com/news/predators-to-host-three-day-winter-park-ahead-of-stadium-seriesA BNA Update FY21 BNA and JWN Annual Reporthttps://youtu.be/kQOqnyx-5TM2021: A Year in Review for Nashville International and John C. Tune airportshttps://flynashville.com/news/2021-a-year-in-review-for-nashville-international-and-john-c-tune-airportsthe Nashville International Airporthttps://flynashville.com/How Frontier-Spirit merger could affect Nashville International Airporthttps://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2022/02/08/frontier-spirit-airline-merger.htmlLight Rail in Nashville? | Virtual Tour of BNAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu5FU32LKd0Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twitter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - https://www.xplrnash.com/shopMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.lifeArtists can submit songs to be featured here https://forms.gle/mtkxUCFds7g9e2466

After an extended break, we are back with a new episode as we catch up on what happened in January and talk about what we are most excited about in February. Groundhog Day (NOT Groundhog's Day) Black History Month is all of February Follow @JimmyMcNeal on Instagram Read Devil in the Grove Space Jam (The original page) Looking for good food? Loveless Cafe is AMAZING! When is Valentine's Day? ALWAYS FEBRUARY 14th. Superbowl Info What is Wordle? The Popcast Follow @SharonSaysSo on Instagram Pretty Litter (not an ad... just really good kitty litter) The Bible Recap --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holdonpodcast/message

Joe Ariel is the Founder & CEO of Goldbelly. Goldbelly is an online marketplace that connects local restaurants with customers across the country. The inspiration for Goldbelly came to Joe after graduating school, moving to the big apple and longing for biscuits, hot chicken and many other delicacies from his beloved college town, Nashville. Joe decided to reach out to Loveless Cafe and Prince's Hot Chicken to see if they could ship his cravings north and BAM! Goldbelly was born.

This episode is from May 20, 2020. We were in the think of quarantine, restaurants had JUST opened up, the mayor was proposing a crazy tax increase, people were divided right down the middle, and I had this interview with Tom Morales. When we finished the interview, I called my Dad who was helping with some editing and I said, "I'm going to need you to edit this one, we just touched on so much my head is spinning". He did, and we did. This was one of my favorite interviews I have done. Tom was so absolutely honest, and kind, and angry. He is a genuine guy who loves this city, and I feel like we have that in common. I hope you have that in common with him too.. Enjoy this "rewind"!- Brandon This episode is commercial free thanks to Charpiers Bakery, Complete Health Partners, and fohandboh.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brandon-styll/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-styll/support

A new bourbon is released in celebration of the big race this weekend. What restaurants have opened recently in Nashville that are worth checking out? And on the topic of restaurants, Food Network released their list of Top Restaurants for Nashville.Become a subscriber! Visit us at https://www.patreon.com/nashvilledailyTake a Tour With Us! Use code NASH for 20% off - https://xplrtours.com/TEXT US: 615-392-1358Today's Sponsor: Screened ThreadsUse the Code "NashvilleDaily" for 10% off online and in-storehttps://screenedthreads.com/Nash NewsNashville COVID-19 Responsehttps://www.asafenashville.org/Big Machine Distillery debuts limited edition bourbon ahead of Music City Grand Prixhttps://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/07/30/big-machine-distillery-bourbon-grand-prix-indycar.htmlJuly restaurant openings: What's new in Nashville?https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2021/07/31/july-restaurant-openings-whats-new-nashville/5409575001/Watch a sunrise at the Narrows of the Harpeth and get breakfast at Loveless Cafe. ​​https://www.xplrnash.com/event-details/augusts-xplrmeet-sunrise-hike-at-the-narrows-of-harpethFood Network's list of best restaurants in Nashvillehttps://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/photos/restaurant-guide-nashvilleLocal Artist Feature - Electric SkylineDenim Nites https://open.spotify.com/artist/4P7QqtnrVYTDZdd1aVtYSj?si=Mekx3xCZRdOZBloQPSVwqA&nd=1Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twiter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - http://bit.ly/nashville_merchMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.lifeArtists can submit songs to be featured here https://forms.gle/mtkxUCFds7g9e2466

Jay and Peter discuss their recent trip down highway 100. Peter remembers the first time he went to Loveless Cafe. Jay goes on about nothing. Peter calls Jay's Jelly terminology gutter. Give us a call! Our hotline is open: 615-422-5117‬! Intro music by Matt Rawls. Titled Pete Podcast Idea 4. Brought to you by Joyner and Hogan for all your printing needs: www.joynerhogan.net. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lookingwithjayandpeter/support

Nashville's Native Natasha Stoneking shares her top picks for where to stay, eat, drink and what to do in Tennessee's capital city! She brings the energy and you don't want to miss this one! SHOW NOTES: Where to stay: Graduate Hot Nashville, Noelle - The Downtown Nashville Hotel, The Joseph, Bobby Hotel, JW Marriott Nashville, The Westin Nashville, Omni Nashville Hotel Where to eat: Kayne Prime Steakhouse, Moto, 5th & Taylor, The Loveless Cafe, Five Daughters Bakery, Tavern, The Pfunky Griddle, Margot Cafe & Bar, Deacon’s New South Merchant’s, Pinewood Social, Hattie B’s - Best Fried Chicken, Adele’s, Mockingbird, Kitchen Notes (Temporarily closed - Best brunch) Where to drink: Patterson House, Tavern, The Optimist, Rare Bird, L.A. Jackson What to do: Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Frist Art Museum, Adventure Science Center (great for kids), Topgolf, Arrington Vineyards, Parthenon in Centennial Park Must visit places on Broadway: Tootsie’s and Legends Rapid Fire: Most Instagram-able spot: 12 South Best Pizza: MAFIAoZA’s Nashville Event: Steeplechase, CMA Fest, Jason Isbell’s Week Annual Concert at The Ryman Coffee Shop: Barista Parlour Wine and Cheese Shop: Brentwood Wine & Spirits, Barcelona Wine Bar Best season: Fall Rooftop Bar: L.A. Jackson Local Business: The Mill Boutique, ABLE, The Perfect Pair, Vinnie Louise Best BBQ: Martin’s and Edley’s Dessert Spot: Mare Bulles (bring back the strawberry cheesecake cake!), Jeni’s Ice Cream, Legendairy Milkshake Bar

Has Amazon made its full impact on Nashville? We may not be close. You may be able to get same day delivery from Amazon in Nashville soon. Speaking of delivery, we’ll talk about all the places that will make Thanksgiving on your couch even better.Become a subscriber! Visit us at https://www.patreon.com/nashvilledailyTEXT US: 615-392-1358Enter Our Giveaway https://gleam.io/mQpFq/12-south-giveawayToday's Sponsor: Screened ThreadsUse the Code "NashvilleDaily" for 10% off online and in-storehttps://screenedthreads.com/Nash NewsTwo years later, Nashville isn't anywhere close to feeling Amazon's full impact. Key moments since the announcementhttps://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/11/13/amazon-operations-hub-nashville-yards-office.htmlAmazon expands same-day delivery options in Nashville, delivering in as few as five hourshttps://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2020/11/16/amazon-expands-same-day-delivery-options-nashville/6284016002/Top Coffee Shops in Nashvillehttps://youtu.be/_KLVDztCKCcWhere To Eat On Thanksgiving in Nashville (To Go )Thanksgiving In Nashville - Nashville Guruhttp://nashvilleguru.com/38650/thanksgiving-nashville#dine-inThanksgiving Meals & Desserts To-Go In Nashvillehttps://do615.com/p/nashville-thanksgiving-to-go-turkey-dessertCapitol Grille | $65 Adult (Hermitage Hotel)https://www.thehermitagehotel.com/special-offers-copy-20201020171914.htm404 Kitchen | $96 Feeds 2 (gulch)https://www.the404nashville.com/thanksgiving-pre-order-menu/Arnold’s Country Kitchen Gulch https://www.arnoldscountrykitchen.com/new-page-3Commons Club | $199 feeds 4 (Virgin Hotel) https://virginhotels.com/nashville/offers/thanksgiving-to-go/Loveless Cafe |  $129 Feeds 6 (West Nashville) https://www.lovelesscafe.com/thanksgiving-meals/Avo | $39 Feeds 2 (Charlotte Pike) http://www.eatavo.com/Von Elrod's | $125 Feeds 6 (Germantown)https://vonelrods.com/ThanksgivingButchertown Hall (germanton)https://www.butchertownhall.com/#eat-togetherPuckett’s Grocery & Restaurant (Fifth and church)https://puckettsgro.com/holidaytogo/Local Artist Feature - Kayla WoodsonUnfixablehttps://open.spotify.com/artist/2PtpdZ4Cod7OvoaRUXhYkC?si=CfSxuAdXQLq37TGWfpTy5Qhttps://www.kaylawoodson.com/Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twiter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - http://bit.ly/nashville_merchMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.lifeArtists can submit songs to be featured here https://forms.gle/mtkxUCFds7g9e2466

HOW NOTES HEREOliver Wood has a touch of survivor's guilt. Many of his peers and even some mentors in the music business didn't stick with it. Finally, after years of sleeping on couches and sharing hotel rooms with bands he got a decent paycheck in his mid-40's. He and his brother Chris, the younger Wood Brother, call is "the slow rise to the middle.'Oliver's take on life during COVID and the music business, life in general will keep you captivated in this exploratory interview that encompasses two new singles that he released independently of The Wood Brothers. Soul of This Town and The Battle Is Over (But The War Goes On), as well as more Wood Brothers music will fill your ears and heart with good sounds and inspiration. www.thewoodbros.comSongs appearing in this episode, in order of appearance:That's What Angels Can Do (played by Thom Dharma Pollard)Shoofly PiePostcards From HellHoney JarOne More DaySoul of This TownThe Battle is Over, But the War Goes OnWho The DevilClosing Song: The Wood Brothers performing "Who The Devil" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 10.23.2013 found at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz2ND_j9nH4Publicist: Calabro Music Mediahttps://calabromusicmedia.com/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user)

Tom talks about his humble beginnings, from catering at the Starwood Amphitheatre, Dancin' in the district, to borrowing money for his first "mobile kitchen". We discuss what is what like on the movie sets, and why he decided to open restaurants. The culmination of this interview Tom talks about the state of Nashville. Where are we, how did we get here, and what can we do to fix it? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brandon-styll/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-styll/support

Welcome to Miller Piano podcast episode number 5! It's Christmas time, and we have a special Christmas treat for you piano lovers out there. In this episode, host Jason Skipper talks with Shana Kirk, a Yamaha Corporation of America consultant and product specialist as well as many many other things, which we learn about in this episode. Shana talks in detail about new piano technology, and how that technology can be used to address common 21st-century learning challenges. Topics discussed: Shana's Personal and Education Background Life in Colorado Yamaha Disklavier's Piano Technology in the past 30 Years How Shana Became Interested in Piano Technology Common Piano Learning Challenges of Today and How the Yamaha Disklavier has Fixed These Examples on How Teachers Take Advantage of Yamaha Disklavier's Tech Features How Yamaha's Acoustic Pianos' Headphone Technology Works Distance Learning Tools The Future of Piano Technology How You Can Reach Out to Shana Transcript Jason Skipper 0:14 Welcome to the Miller Piano Podcast. I'm your host Jason Skipper. And in this episode, we have a talk with special guest, Shana Kirk. Shana is a consultant and product specialist with the Yamaha Corporation of America. She is frequently featured on event programs for organizations throughout the US and Canada. She writes music and music technology-based reviews and articles for blogs, websites and print publications, including Piano Magazine, and American Music Teacher where she co-authors the Tech Connect column. And it was just announced yesterday, I believe, that she is now the Director of Digital operations for the Francis Clark Center, among many, many other things. Shana, it's an honor to have you with us today. Welcome to the podcast. Shana Kirk 0:58 Thank you so much, Jason. It's great to be here. Jason Skipper 1:00 Did I get all that right? Shana Kirk 1:02 You did, I think so. It sounds like a lot now that you've read it out loud. Jason Skipper 1:07 Yeah. Well, I tell you, I missed a lot of it. Because honestly, reading from your bio, there's so much there. I know just looking at your education, it's incredible. Honestly, I've seen there you have a BA in Piano Performance and German from Lipscomb University, Master of music and Piano Pedagogy from the University of Denver and quite a few others that I honestly would just make a fool of myself trying to pronounce. Shana Kirk 1:34 That German stuff is pretty tough. Jason Skipper 1:36 Yeah, I was trying, I was looking it up trying to figure out exactly how to pronounce those in German, and I said nope. Maybe you can help us with that. Where else have you studied? What else have you done? Shana Kirk 1:47 So I spent some time in Germany actually, while I was a student in Lipscomb, and I studied at the Goethe Institute, which is a language school. And I went to the Musikschule, which is a music school in Mannheim. And I spent a little time also at the University of Mannheim. And so I have always enjoyed dipping my toes in a lot of water, I guess. And I just am so fortunate to have a really multi-faceted career and a lot of interest that just keeps me engaged in busy and curious in every possible direction. Jason Skipper 2:26 That's awesome. I think to sum it up, I read this on your LinkedIn profile, and it's really simple and to the point. I love it... it says, "I'm a pianist and a geek. And I combine those two qualities as often as possible". Is that right? Shana Kirk 2:40 Exactly, that's exactly, exactly it. Jason Skipper 2:42 I love it. I grew up playing the piano. I grew up playing music all my life, but I also consider myself a geek. I do a lot of those type of things. And I love playing with all the possibilities in technology with music, with MIDI and just, you know, working all these different things. So I love it. Shana Kirk 3:01 There's never been a more exciting time to just dive into both piano music and music technology and just 21st-century tools. It's a really, really great, great space to be in these days. Jason Skipper 3:13 It really is. And I don't think a lot of people know that, and that's one of the reasons why we're doing this podcast is just to let the world know what's out there. It's pretty amazing. Shana Kirk 3:24 Yeah, for sure. Jason Skipper 3:25 So before we get into today's topic, we always like to get to know our guests a little bit better, you know, your background where you're from. So I understand Shana that you mentioned, I know you're not... you don't live in Tennessee now, but I believe you are from Tennessee? Shana Kirk 3:43 That's right. I grew up in West Tennessee, a little town called Lexington. That's about halfway in between Memphis and Nashville. I went to Lexington High and my parents still live on a bucolic farm that is right off of Natchez Trace State Park. And so we get back there as often as we can. So I grew up as an absolute Tennessee farm girl who loved music loved all the great harmonies that surrounded me and all the Tennessee music has to offer. And then I went to college right there at Lipscomb. And where that was my first introduction into, you know, really diving into classical music, and really diving into music technology. And I really did have a wonderful experience there. Jason Skipper 4:27 Wow, wow. Well, where do you live now? Shana Kirk 4:29 I live right in central Denver. Jason Skipper 4:31 Okay. And how, you know, just real quick, how did you end up there? How'd you end up in Denver, moving away from Tennessee being so focused on music? How'd you end up in Denver? Shana Kirk 4:42 I was actually looking for graduate programs after I left Lipscomb. After I graduated from Lipscomb, my now husband and I were both kind of searching the world searching the country at least for places that look like fun and also had Continuing Education and graduate programs that would fit both of our needs and somehow Denver was just the place that we landed on. So it wasn't really as you know, there were a lot of factors that went into that. But basically, we were looking around for where could we have a great time and continue our education in the same city and Denver hit that sweet spot and once we were here, we just couldn't think of leaving. Jason Skipper 5:28 It's beautiful out there. I've looked at it multiple times all out through Colorado in that area, it's beautiful. The weather at least in the summertime and you know, most of the year is beautiful I know you get snow, I asked you before we started recording this but have you had any snow so far? Shana Kirk 5:47 There's actually already been a lot of snow in Colorado. If you're thinking about coming out for skiing, everything is already open. And, and just really in great shape up in the mountains. Denver has had more snow than we're used to by this time of year. But today, it's actually sunny and gorgeous, which is a little secret of Denver is that there are 300 days of sunshine and it's almost always sunny. Jason Skipper 6:09 Ah, you're making me jealous. Shana Kirk 6:13 Nobody makes biscuits like the Loveless Cafe, which we don't have. Jason Skipper 6:19 That's true, that's true! In any case, let's go ahead and get into the topic that we wanted to talk about today. we're getting into Piano Technology, specifically the Yamaha Disklavier, and addressing common 21st-century learning challenges. Piano technology has changed so much over the years. You mentioned a little while ago, how we live in one of the most exciting times in music and with piano technology. I think that the majority of people, when they think of pianos, they think of a beautiful instrument. A lot of times the classical instrument, the upright or the grand piano, but not a whole whole lot of people, not many people think about technology in the piano. The truth is it has changed a lot. How has piano technology changed over maybe the last 10, 20, 30 or more years? Shana Kirk 7:09 Well, 30 years is kind of a benchmark in the evolution of technology of the piano, especially the acoustic piano, because that's when true reproducing pianos that were outfitted with MIDI technology started being produced. So Yamaha's first Disklavier was about to think a little more than 30 years ago now and it was just a reproducing acoustic piano. But at the center of that was suddenly the ability to measure every single motion, every single gesture that a pianist could make on a piano could be measured in just incredible resolution even as long ago as 30 years. Shana Kirk 7:55 And in the interim, that has only gotten better. Starting in the mid-90s, Disklavier introduced high-resolution recording. So instead of the 128 increments of media measurement, that was then multiplied by nine. So in the approaching 1000 increments of measurement for every single keystroke, every single hammer hit, every single anything that happens inside of the piano is being measured to unbelievable accuracy. So when you have that kind of accuracy, you can actually reproduce a performance to the standard of a classical artist. In prior iterations of reproducing pianos, say what you might associate with player pianos of the early 20th century. There were actually some very sophisticated instruments even back then, but they couldn't come close to reproducing the humaneness of a classical performer, with all of the subtleties that are required and studied classical music. Jason Skipper 8:58 Wow. How did you - I know that you grew up here in Tennessee, and you studied at Lipscomb. But how did you get interested first in piano technology? Shana Kirk 9:07 So that's an interesting thing. So when I was a high school student, I was a pretty enthusiastic student, and an enthusiastic musician too. But you're in kind of a, an isolated area in rural Tennessee, where you don't know what you don't know. But I was just fascinated by all things music, and I knew I wanted to be in the music world. And I had played in band and taking piano lessons. And then I got to Lipscomb, and there was this whole other layer of musicianship that I had no clue about. So my teacher was Jerry Reed, who is you know, just a wonderful and award-winning and phenomenal teacher in the area. And I think that he saw a spark and also had a willingness to kind of be hard when it was necessary. Shana Kirk 9:59 And so he really gave me some guidance about classical music. And then and also just sort of helping me fit into that world because I had been a total, you know, country girl, and I didn't have a clue. But also at the same time, and this is like, you know, the ironies of growing up in the south, I think I had a small scholarship from the Walton foundation from Walmart. And that scholarship went on top of my other scholarships, and it was actually just cash and they just gave me a check. So with that, check, I marched myself to the music electronic store I don't even remember the name of it now is the dusty little store in northeast Nashville, and I bought a keyboard and a MOTU interface, orange, and bright-colored MOTU interfaces, and Finale version 2.6.1, the engraving software which came on, you know, three or four floppy disks best I remember, and a MAC classic computer. computer like the little screen, you know, monochrome Mac classic. So that was my rig. And I carried it back and forth to Lipscomb with me in the back of my Ford Escort. And, I discovered at the same time that our theory teacher who was a brilliant brilliant man named Gerald Moore. Dr. Moore, unfortunately, passed away a few years ago, but he had been doing a side gig for many years as an arranger in Nashville. So the idea of using a keyboard to write music into a computer was relatively new and we had started that learning curve at the same time. And so we shared each other's pain and learning how to do this. Shana Kirk 11:58 Bfrustrated by how often our computers crashed and how often we couldn't get the setup to work. I have admitted many times, although probably never on the radio that I got away with not doing a whole lot of my theory homework because I used to try to turn it in on finale and then my computer would crash and I would go to Dr. Moore and I would say Oh, my computer crashed. And he was so, he was this giant, like you know, I don't know how it seems like he was seven feet tall but he probably wasn't I don't know. A lot bigger than me person who would just... but he was sort of like a big, you know, cuddly, you know? He was just this nice, nice person, very, very warm person and he was saying, oh, Shana, I completely understand. You can just turn it in whenever and you would never get around to turning it. Hey, let me slide on so much theory homework. I'll have to also admit that I ended up taking some remedial theory classes in graduate school. Jason Skipper 12:58 But hey during that time, you got all the practice in there. So you learned... Shana Kirk 13:06 Definitely. I had this deep understanding of how MIDI and computers fit together, and you know why that is useful in the real world. Because there was Dr. Moore just doing incredible work in Nashville and increasing his output I think exponentially because all of a sudden, he didn't have to handwrite everything. There was this easy way. There wasn't even there was barely an email it wasn't like you could attach a message to I mean, you couldn't attach a score to an email or send anything online but at least you could get multiple copies output fast. Jason Skipper 13:42 Right. Right. That's awesome. You started From the beginning there. You started really, really early and learned it well. I think in our correspondence before this episode, you mentioned that the bulk of your work today in your job and everything you do seems to revolve around artists, educators and recording studios who use the Yamaha Disklavier, especially when it can help address common 21st-century learning challenges. Can you explain what you mean by that? Shana Kirk 14:16 Yeah, yeah, sure. So, I have had a longtime relationship with Yamaha as a consultant, since actually the time I was a graduate student here in Denver. And in that role, I have been in this sort of unique niche of having a big background in classical music and piano pedagogy, but also having this you know, additional layer of knowledge in technology. So Yamaha has hired me now for many years to help educators, especially college music departments. But also private teachers and artists and studios and whatever, to figure out what they needed and how they could be helped by this technology. And since my personal passion is for great acoustic piano performance, a lot of times that has carried over to Yamaha Disklavier. Shana Kirk 15:18 So, since the very early days of Disklavier, schools have adopted them for the purpose of helping students practice more efficiently. So it's one thing to practice for, you know, hours and hours like we do as pianists. But a lot of times that turns into things like repetitive stress injuries, or just plain old brain fry exhaustion. So something that was discovered and actually one of the original reasons that the Yamaha Disklavier was ever invented in Japan was to help students take advantage of being able to listen to themselves better. So if you, as an advanced pianist can record a performance on the Yamaha Disklavier, and then step back a few feet, and then experience your own performance as an audience member, or as a critique of your own performance. You develop listening skills and sort of self-assessment skills that you can't do when you're just in the middle of playing. So that's an incredible benefit to being able to have this very realistic performance of yourself just anytime you need to do that. Jason Skipper 16:35 Right. When you listen back and you hear yourself what you did, because a lot of times when you're in the middle of it, you don't realize, you know, you're messing up in a certain area, you get off time, I guess. I don't know, I mean... Shana Kirk 16:48 Yeah, absolutely, there's that. But then I call it sort of the microscope of a Yamaha Disklavier is when you have that performance. Now, remember that the Yamaha Disklavier, on the backbone of the Disklavier is MIDI. And MIDI is data, MIDI is not a recorded performance. So what can you do with data, you can manipulate it. So because MIDI is data, you can take a display of your performance. And you can speed it up, you can slow it down, you can change the key, you can take little segments out and loop them over and over again. And so anything that you can do in a MIDI studio, you can also do at the Yamaha Disklavier, but the benefit is you're doing it on a real acoustic piano with all of those, you know, brain-rattling vibrations in the room, all of this specialness of an acoustic piano. So I have been giving workshops for teachers for many years now demonstrating a lot of the ways that you can use Yamaha Disklavier as it's just a microscopic teaching tool. One short example I'll give... Jason Skipper 17:53 Yeah, that would be great. Shana Kirk 17:55 Say, I saw this in I saw this years and years ago what before I was working so closely with Yamaha in a teacher workshop with Susan Ogilvy who is also, you know, wonderful technology, promoter and just composer and wonderful person. So anyway, I was in this early workshop with Susan Ogilvy. And she had a student come and she was going to show recording and playback as a teaching tool, and she asked the student to play a scale. And the student, she was expecting that the student would miss a few things, and that she would play it back and we would be able to, you know, make note of Oh, you didn't quite get that, you know, finger passage exactly right, or something like that. Shana Kirk 18:43 But instead, the student was a total show off and he played really, really fast. And the audience kind of gasped at how great they thought it was maybe or maybe how great he thought of himself. And so it's right in the moment, Susan said, you know, I'm going to do something a little different here, I'm going to see what your performance sounds like, if I play it at half the speed, you played. And all of a sudden, you hear all of these bumps and uneven places and places where the two hands weren't exactly together. And suddenly you realize she's just taken a microscope to that performance and exposed everything about it that was insecure and shaky. And also, sometimes you hear two side by side really fast performances, and you can't quite put your finger on what, no pun intended there, why one is so much more professional-sounding than the other. Sometimes it's those microscopic differences in where your hands exactly playing together and was the scale exactly, exactly, even. And that happens across the board, not just in classical music. Jason Skipper 19:55 Right. What other ways Have you seen and maybe other examples are where teachers are working with their students or maybe schools are maximizing their efforts working with students with the Disklavier. What other ways have you seen that? Shana Kirk 20:11 So, it's, it's a long list. But a couple of my favorite examples are just anywhere when a school or a teacher especially and we all know the burden that is on teachers, especially these days with budget cuts in schools and just incredible schedules that the teachers have to put themselves through. I have a colleague Mario Ajero at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, and he has all of his students record their piano proficiency exam. So this is the class that you know group piano or class piano, where piano music students, not necessarily piano students, but any music students have to pass what's called a piano proficiency. And so at a big school like Stephen F, Austin, that can be an enormous number of students to go through and get and take these exams. So MARIO has all of his students record their exams on Yamaha Disklavier, so that he can come in and, and grade the exams without having to actually schedule with a student. And it just puts so much more flexibility into not just his schedule, but theirs, I mean, students, you know, especially music students are so booked with performances and recitals and even just attending other things. So so that is just a simple way that the Disklavier has to lighten the load of music students and faculty. Shana Kirk 21:35 And then modern Disklavier, so by modern I mean, just in the last, you know, five or so years, there has been an added element of synchronized video. So most Disklaviers in the last several years, you're able to connect either a camera, so a video camera, or even just an iPad. There's an iPad app that goes with the Disklavier called my music recorder. Those two things will let you marry together video of your performance and the physical performance that is on the display here. So how does that help modern competitive piano student? Well, we mentioned I think earlier the avoidance of performance injuries. And there have even been studies about this, you know, NYU, and Washington University, all kinds of things. So when a student can actually see the mechanics of their own performance on a video screen, and then at the very same time, see how a certain gesture of their body translated to a certain sound at the piano. You know, all of a sudden you have all of this information to take in, you can take notes on it, you can work on parts of your physical performance, that you might not be able to observe even from hearing yourself or from independently seeing a video yourself. Shana Kirk 23:00 So the two of those things put together just give you so much information to assess your own playing and to be a healthier player. I know even probably just now while we're talking to each other, I tend to be a pretty animated talker. And I realize, you know, one of my shoulders is higher than the other, I'm starting to leap forward in a weird way because I get excited when I talk. And you don't realize what little tensions you put into your body in ways that you talk in the way that you do your everyday things. When you're a pianist, and you're at the piano for hours and hours a day, those little motions in your body, those little tensions can really really multiply. So it's extremely important for pianists in today's ultra-competitive environment to have every possible advantage. Be able to reduce those tensions. Jason Skipper 23:51 Right to be self-aware, understand what they're doing, what they do, how it comes through in their music and everything they're doing, so... that's incredible. Shana Kirk 24:00 Yeah, it's critically important. I can't count the number of pianists that I've known that have dropped out of performing life because they have had injuries or because they saw an injury coming and didn't know how to avoid it. But also, I've seen wonderful success stories of pianists who were able to overcome injuries or avoid them in the first place. Just because of technology like the Disklavier. Jason Skipper 24:27 Right. Wow. Well, you say technology like the discovery, or are these options everything you're mentioning? Are they more just focused on the Yamaha Disklavier or what other pianos from Yamaha have the same type of options? Is the Disklavier really the one especially in performance things where it's that's the standard go to? Shana Kirk 24:47 I think the Disklavier is certainly setting a standard in every possible way. But Yamaha because it's such a big and interconnected company and such an innovative company, has carried over a lot of technologies and a lot of ideas across several different instruments. One of the most important ones, I think, is the ability simply to put on headphones. And every instrument Yamaha makes, including most acoustic pianos, are now available with what's called a silent feature. That, you don't have to have the playback ability of the disc severe or some of the more sophisticated MIDI features that are in the Yamaha Disklavier to appreciate why you might want headphones on your acoustic piano that solves so many problems for so many families. If you have more than one child in the house, if you have people who go to bed at different times, if you have close neighbors, if you have a student in your family who just is shy about having other people listen - I don't like other people listening to me, I doubt if most people do. So that is just you know, a problem solver just by itself. Shana Kirk 26:02 And because the core of the Yamaha Disklavier year revolves around this very, very precise measurement, the one hand, and on the other hand very, very high quality sampled sounds inside your headphones because remember Yamaha is also an electronics company. So many many very powerful sampled sounds come from the Yamaha see FX Concert Grand Piano from the Yamaha C7, which is the standard in every recording studio everywhere, you can ask your Nashville friends. Lots and lots and lots of choices. Yamaha is also the owner of Bösendorfer and that sample is now in a lot of our headphones instruments. And then you get into the very exciting more digital features of something like a Clavinova, where you basically have a multitrack studio at your fingertips You know, tons and tons of artists and educators and composers get tremendous use out of Clavinova. I mean, it's everything but the kitchen sink right inside the same. Shana Kirk 27:14 So for someone who may be listening, a listener out there, and they're trying to understand, you know, I grew up playing piano and I think mom and dad, my mom and dad would have been very happy if I could put headphones into my piano every once in a while, you know? And I guess the question is, you know, for some people out there, how does that work? You take a piano, how can you plug in an acoustic piano, and you plug in headphones, you know, just getting really basic here. How does that work where you can plug it in, and suddenly the piano doesn't make any sounds anymore? Can you kind of explain that to our listeners? Shana Kirk 27:49 Oh, sure. It's actually not that complicated that the mechanism of it is not that complicated. In a Yamaha acoustic piano that has a silent feature or a Yamaha Disklavier the silent feature, there is simply a bar that mechanic, you know, you hear a little motor go bug. And it just prevents the hammers from striking the strings or so then instead of hammer striking strings, they're just stopped by this little soft bar and it doesn't make it makes the same sound. I mean, that doesn't, you know, damage anything. And because the Yamaha Disklavier is based on fiber-optic technology, you're the hammers are not hitting anything. They're not hitting sensors or anything like that. They're simply passing through beams of light. And those beams of light can have unbelievably precise measurements. Shana Kirk 28:41 So whatever you're playing on the keys, even if it's fast, repeated notes, or if it's very slow movement of the key up and down, all of that is being measured, and then reproduced in a really, really sophisticated modeled sample of an acoustic grand piano. So one of the things that I think is great fun is you put on the headphones in your, you know, living room-sized acoustic piano that's an upright or small grand maybe that fits into you know, everybody's living room. And then when you put the headphones on, all of a sudden you're hearing this nine-foot concert grand. Jason Skipper 29:19 That's awesome. That's awesome. I wish I would have had that growing up. I really do. Shana Kirk 29:23 I think my family probably wishes they had that growing up. Jason Skipper 29:28 So one of the things that we've talked about here is learning and be able to work with someone who's somewhere else. A lot of times today, people are moving all over the place. My family, we've moved four times probably in the last 10 years. It's just one of those things that happens a lot of people move all over the place and what happens in today, how can we use the technology and today to be able to let's say you have a piano teacher somewhere else like another city where you were and you moved away from them, but you don't want to change teachers you don't know who to look for, then how could we use this technology for things like that? Or maybe you could give us an example? Shana Kirk 30:10 Yeah, well, obviously, distance learning is a really hot topic and education circles everywhere. And music education is no different. So the Yamaha Disklavier itself has a feature called remote lesson that is largely limited to institutions. So if you have a great faculty member at your school, and they have some niche expertise, that other people are enthusiastic about, about sharing, you can sort of beam that teacher one piano to the other piano I actually just now helped facilitate a lesson from Frederic Chiu who is a wonderful Yamaha artist and on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music, and, and other positions as well I'll mention and he was invited to teach a class to some students in Moscow. And so we set up a Yamaha Yamaha Disklavier at the Hartt School of Music, where they have that piano there all the time. And the students in Moscow were able to come to a Yamaha facility there. So Frederic Chiu to has a wonderful way of demonstrating how to create this magical sound in especially the music and the style of Chopin with combining certain subtle movements of pedals and ways to address the keys with velocity, so that's, you know, the speed of playing a key up and down. And all of that very, very intricate information, just jumped right over those thousands of miles into the piano in Moscow. And students were you could see them on the screen, you know, they were just their jaws were dropped. And these are not students who are new to piano repertoire, but obviously, his approach to this particular topic was so new and refreshing. So that was a really magical thing to watch just very, very recently. Shana Kirk 32:10 And years ago, I had a more practical application with Inna Faliks, who is on the faculty of UCLA, so University of California in Los Angeles. And she was invited to join that faculty as a very young artist. And that's not something that you ever turn down if you're in this world. I mean, faculty jobs in piano are so hard to come by. But she had this existing set of responsibilities in New York City. And on top of that, she had a new baby. And so it was going to be really complicated for her to travel back and forth to take advantage of her new job at UCLA, while not letting everything slide in New York and also while still having a new baby. And so she did manage to do quite a lot of travel and she was very much welcomed on that faculty and she's doing such a wonderful job there still. But for that early transition, we were able to help her alleviate some of the stress of travel by letting her teach some of her lessons from New York City to LA. So she taught students from Yamaha artist services in New York City and her students and it was really funny because it was in the winter and her students were always wearing shorts and everybody was all bundled up in New York. Sometimes it's the distance, sometimes it's the time zone. sometimes it's just the convenience of life. Sometimes a teacher is sick. Sometimes a student is sick. And just being able to use Distance Learning Tools, either at the Yamaha Disklavier or Clavinova or silent piano can also accommodate Distance Learning Tools if you apply the software. But they discover you are actually has a built-in feature. Jason Skipper 34:03 That's awesome. That's so amazing, I tell you. So real quick finishing up here. Where do you see the future of piano technology going? Where's the future from today? Do you know? Do you have any clue or? Shana Kirk 34:18 I have my eye on things, I tell you, I always have my eye on things. Yamaha is always looking into the future. I can tell you that. And Yamaha has done a lot of research and a lot of prototyping in the area of artificial intelligence. That's still very new in the sophisticated language of music, or to artificial music-making still feels a little artificial, right? Honestly, you can tell when robots playing music right? Instead of when a human is playing music, but the research is there it's getting closer and closer. I'm also really, really fascinated by how much multimedia is becoming part of our art. So you think of classical piano is this sort of stodgy, snobby world of older people sometimes. And it's not always used in the same breath as innovative or modern, right. But that's just not true at all. There is so much to be done. Because of the complexity of classical music. You can put together just unbelievably eye-popping multimedia displays, where the lady from the piano so from the signals from an acoustic performance, are actually creating their own art. So being expressed as visual graphics. And that's not even hard to do. Shana Kirk 35:52 There's an iPad app called Visual Performer that just immediately turns your performance at the keyboard into a multimedia display. But then there are artists like Dan Tepfer, who are also computer programmers, in addition to being great pianist, and he's a classical pianist and a jazz pianist. And you know, every possible brilliant he could be. And he's writing algorithms that interpret his playing, and then feed it back to the piano. So it's like he's having a duet with his future self. Really, really brilliant stuff. And in the middle of that he has, you know, fractal art. And it's just unbelievable mind-blowing, mind-blowing things. Then also I am aware of pianists who have very severe limits, pianists who have had strokes. I've worked with two great pianists who have had strokes or other conditions that limited one hand or the other, and they're able to continue playing the piano because they record one part and play along with their own selves at the Yamaha Disklavier. So the accommodations for people who have these abilities. That is a future way of just allowing so many more people to be expressive at the piano. You might have seen a video, there was a really great I think YouTube video of the piano of the singer Renee Fleming controlling a Yamaha Disklavier with brainwaves (See embedded video below). So that's research, you know, someone who has complete loss of mobility can still control a piano through their brainwaves. So there's just so much exciting research in the area of accessibility in the area of multimedia, and then you know, distance learning. I'm just waiting for your holograms to be something that I can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d-PlEAQMBY Jason Skipper 37:46 A hologram dancing on top of the piano while you're playing. Shana Kirk 37:48 Oh, yeah. So I do have to mention one multimedia artist before we close. That is really, really exciting. I don't think she hasn't done a lot of work on the Disklavier recently, but this just goes to show how long people have been, you know, experimenting with the Yamaha Disklavier as a multimedia instrument. The artist name is Xiao Xiao, X-I-A-O X-I-A-O. But she got hold of a discovery or during the time she was at MIT, and created something called MirrorFugue, where great pianists that she convinced to come in record for her, had their images, the actual images of their hands projected onto the keys. And one of the really special times that happened was she recorded the New Orleans pianist Allen Toussaint. And no one was expecting that it would be one of the last years of his life. And so now we can go back in and see that magical performance you know when he sort of unexpectedly passed away. So it's a little bit you know, dark to think about, you know, preserving dead pianist. It's not something that I really tried to emphasize the Yamaha Disklavier. But it is really a wonderful way to preserve moments in history, whether it's your child's piano recital, or a great pianist that might have visited your house, or a great pianist, hit what was at a school or a graduate degree recital. https://vimeo.com/121710688 Jason Skipper 39:19 Wow, that's incredible. I'd say the sky's the limit. And just everything we can see there. By the way, folks, I'm going to go ahead out. And we're going to look for all of these things that Shana has mentioned in here, we're going to put them in the show notes. So if you didn't look, look through the show notes, you'll see links to these videos will embed them on the page as well. So check those out. Well, one last thing here. You know, they say there's a saying you don't know what you don't know. And I feel like that today, with you, it's just been amazing listening to everything that you talk about and that you're sharing we know that there's so much technology and everything they're doing but what haven't I asked you today that I should have asked or something that you'd like to share with your audience? Shana Kirk 40:08 So it like I said earlier, it is just an amazing time to be right here at the junction of music and technology and teaching. The truth is you don't have to be anything like a techie person to enjoy technology at the Yamaha Disklavier or any other technology equipped instrument in 2019. We're all used to using iPads. The technology has receded into the background. It's not the goal anymore, it's just another tool. So if you're doing something as complex and sophisticated as playing the piano, and if you are, you know, congratulations because you're keeping your brain going for the rest of your life, adding just a little technology to the mix to make it more engaging and more convenient, is really, really not a big hurdle to cross. We can connect iPad games that make piano play and feel like, feel like a game. You can connect an iPad and have your whole music library, turn the pages for you from right inside your Yamaha Disklavier or any of the keyboard. You can record performances of special people in your life and have them, you know, archived forever. So you shouldn't feel intimidated and it's great to have people like Miller Music on hand who know their way around and can give everybody a gentle introduction into what sounds like, you know, a lot of complicated technology but it's really, really not there is so much to offer now and it can be as hard or as easy as you need it to be. Wow. All right. Jason Skipper 41:57 Well, how can people find you? I know you have a website, you're, you write blog posts, you write a lot of different things. How can people find you online? And how can if anybody would ever want to get a hold of you? How can people find you? Shana Kirk 42:13 Right, so I have my own website, which is pianotopia.net. And I also helped coordinate a website for Yamaha that's called the Yamaha DEN. So the Yamaha Disklavier Education Network is the DEN. And I try and keep rotating content up there. That is just kind of the latest exciting things to do with Disklavier, especially in ways that education might use. Jason Skipper 42:38 All right. Well, thank you so much, Shana. It's been a pleasure to have you on the podcast with us. To our listeners, don't forget that you can find a transcript with this entire podcast along with show notes and links to all the content that we mentioned the videos and everything else we talked throughout right here on the website. Also, don't forget to look us up on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify. And subscribe to the podcast leave a rating and a review if you could. I'm your host Jason Skipper. We'll see you next time.

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On today's episode, Amy Kinslow walks us through her journey of transitioning her side hustle to a full time career. She shares why being slow and steady has been so important to her growth as an entrepreneur. Amy also gives us some great tips for selling at a craft and barn market and the difference between a showroom booth and her craft booth. She goes over how she's decided what products to develop and what made her decide to go beyond stationery. This is a jam packed interview loaded with great takeaways.   About Amy Kinslow: Southern Fried Design Barn is a full-service design studio and southern-inspired gift company based in Nashville, Tennessee. Owned and operated by graphic designer, Amy Kinslow. Amy offers graphic design services including logo design, product design, social media graphics and much more. SFDB’s gift company ranges from stationery products, art prints, gift tags, zipper pouches, shirts, and kitchen towels. Sold retail and wholesale, SFDB is currently carried in over 250 stores nationwide. Amy graduated Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design. She has held corporate designer positions for Fortune 500 company, Country Music Television and for the gift industry leader, C.R. Gibson. Her work has been featured on the CMT Music Awards, in Southern Living Magazine and sold in T.J. Maxx, Target and Staples. In addition, she has collaborated on gift products for Nashville restaurant, The Loveless Cafe and ABC’s The Chew star, Carla Hall and her Brooklyn, New York based restaurant, Carl Hall’s Southern Kitchen. Since a very young age, Amy knew she wanted to be in the art field for your life career. Growing up on a cattle farm in Middle Tennessee, Amy understood hard work and also learned to appreciate the priceless things in life; such as, summers outdoors, family, and her faith. The stories her grandparents and parents would share about their life growing up never grew old to her. In college, she began to really take interest in southern history and culture. It helped to revive those family stories she was told as a child. SFDB products are proudly designed and printed in Nashville, Tennessee. Amy has teamed up with local silkscreen studios and printers to help produce products. Many of our kitchen towels and shirts are still hand-silkscreened today. Not only are you supporting Amy when purchasing a SFDB product but you’re also supporting these fellow Nashville artisans and businesses as well. Website: https://www.southernfrieddesign.com/ Facebook: https://twitter.com/southernfriedtn Twitter: https://twitter.com/southernfriedtn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southernfrieddesignbarn/   Links: To get 50% off your first year with Honeybook, go to positivelycreative.net/honeybook! About The Positively Creative Podcast: The Positively Creative Podcast was created by Dorothy Collier, artist of Dorothy Art, for creative entrepreneurs. When Dorothy started having a positive outlook on every aspect of her life, including her art career, the creativity and opportunities started overflowing! Join her as she chats with other small business owners, discussing the ins and outs of how to run a creative business and how they make it in their respective fields. To learn more about The Positively Creative Podcast, visit our website or head over to our Patreon page! You can also find Dorothy on Instagram at @positivelycreativepodcast and @dorothyart!

First, Chris and Will talk about sightings of alligators in Tennessee. Then, they talk about a movie Will watched on Netflix called "The Highwaymen." Then, they talk about the newly announced Loveless Cafe food truck. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors:  Eli Mason - Premium cocktail mixers and syrups made with all-natural ingredients in Nashville, TN. The Mint Julep Mix is back for a limited time, so stock up for your Derby party! Save 20% on 3-packs with the code potluck, and if you order $50 or more they’ll send you a FREE stainless steel cocktail jigger with your order. EliMason.com or follow them on Instagram at @EliMasonSyrups. Mountain Valley Spring Water - Hot Springs, AR. Delicious spring water straight from the source in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. Beautiful green bottles. Still, sparkling, blackberry pomegranate or lime. Available in fine grocery stores or online at MountainValleySpring.com. Follow them on Instagram @MountainValleyWater. Tree House Macarons - Augusta, GA. Late Spring collection available online NOW at TreeHouseMacarons.com. Flavors include classics like Creme Brûlée, Chocolate, and Lemon Blueberry, along with seasonal flavors like Rose, Italian Cream, Strawberry Lemonade, and Peach Sangria, and more. Order now before they sell out. Also, now you can get 6-packs! Use code potluckto save 25%. And contact them directly if you’d like to custom order macarons for an event, a wedding, or if you’d like to carry them in your retail store. TreeHouseMacarons.com or follow them online at @treehousemacarons. Southern Whiskey Society - Coming up on Saturday, August 3 in Franklin, Tennessee. Sample food from 9 award-winning Southern chefs and whiskey from over 30 distilleries. Get your tickets at SouthernWhiskeySociety.com.

- Amy shares news of the 8th Annual Slow Food TN Valley Pie Contest to benefit the Eastside Farmer’s Market, Knoxville. Sunday, October 28th, 5 -7:30 PM. Location: Hexagon Brewing, Knoxville. - Fred Sauceman shares a story and recipe of Alvin C York’s favorite Egg Custard Pie. - Amy shares the work of Slow Food TN Valley and Slow Food International - Amy shares a recipe from the Loveless Cafe for Persimmon Pie

This week on MCR a showcase of bands from four music cities. From Nashville, big sweeping pop melodies and a skilled instrumental attack from Waker. From Athens GA, the haunting alt-Appalachian music of Cicada Rhythm. And from Memphis, an acclaimed ensemble that's about to release new music on the legendary STAX Records label - Southern Avenue. Also on the show, a spectacular archival set from our Loveless Cafe days featuring one of the finest and funkiest bands from Austin, Mingo Fishtrap.  

“How Unfailing Love Transforms the Loveless Cafe” is seventh in a series of sermons called “It's All About His Love” preached by Don Pucik in the Morning Worship Service at Wynne Baptist Church on October 4, 2015.

Robin Aigner has been electrifying the Brooklyn scene and beyond with intelligent, quirky, vintage-sounding original songs since 2002. She has shared festival bills with the likes of Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers and Jolie Holland and in 2010 opened for Emmylou Harris at the inaugural show of The Loveless Cafe in Nashville. A multi-instrumentalist (banjo, tenor uke, guitar) who weaves tall tales into smart, quirky songs, she's been likened to the Decemberists and Regina Spektor. A member of New York's "Antique Guarde," she has toured the United States and Europe. I sat down with Robin to talk about her song “Greener” from the upcoming album "Con Tender." Robin Aigner's music can be found at http://robinaigner.bandcamp.com. Her latest CD "Con Tender" is available on October 25th on CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Bobby Bare is a music legend who has recorded for over fifty years now.  Bobby recently cut his first new material in seven years "Darker Than Light," whcih he premiered at the Loveless Cafe for Music City Roots.  This new album was cut at the famous RCA Studio B, where he recorded his first album in 1962.  Now on the newly launched Plowboy Records, Bobby is excited about his musical future.  

Because you demanded it: BACON. The haters out there said “old meme is old” and you said “hell no”. You, nerds of discerning taste, wanted to see if Nerdy Show could possibly pack any more awesome into savory, fat-rippled pork products. You were 1,000% right. Yes, we produced a bacon-themed podcast where we meet bacon makers and came to an understanding of why Odin saw fit to bestow us with these savory meats – but that is not the main attraction here. No… Behold Nerdy Meal Time and weep. It is as if millions of pigs cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. We’re joined by THE PROTOMEN as we voyage deep into a meaty, greasy abyss. These robits from the future sure know how to chow down. Q: What would the bacon craze be without Epic Meal Time? A: A withered and well-humped husk. But these Princes of Meat have become Internet Kings with their legendary videos. They are an inspiration. So, paying homage to their legacy, we have combined their greatness with our own nerd brilliance. F–king SMART. This is Nerdy Show isn't it? So you know we’re going to record a damn podcast. That’s the name of the game. Nerdy Meal Time is the main event, but in this bacon podcast we get into the nitty gritty. Want to find out how bacon is made? We drove from Orlando, Florida to Nashville, Tennessee to find out. Adventure with us to The Loveless Cafe where they smoke their own meats and make some of the finest bacon products in the U.S. of A. We speak with Tony the Pitmaster and Loveless (bacon) spokesperson Jesse Goldstein about how cute pigs are transformed into succulent pork products of every shape and form. Joining Cap, Hex, Brandon, Colin, and Luke for this episode is Chrystal Casale, pro chef and instrumental force behind making Nerdy Meal Time a reality. We drop some science on this whole bacon phenomena and recount the dramatic tale of how Nerdy Meal Time came into being… and its painful side-effects. Big thanks to: Twothums, Jobarda, MuckRaker, Stuart Edney, BigBadShadowMan, Frozentreasure, and all our other supporters of October ’11 who made this bacon-stravaganza possible. *It’s important to note, this episode was recorded in January 2012, before Mike’s tragic death. There are some comments within this episode that, given the circumstances, may seem insensitive. We've chosen to leave this section intact and unedited. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.