Andy Linden

SnapSessions! presents Episode 62, featuring an interview with Poet Devreaux Baker, Poet Laureate of Mendocino County and the author of six poetry anthologies. In addition, we salute George Orwell’s Animal Farm, published 81 years ago this year and a longtime favorite of SnapSessions! own Doug Nunn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 61, a special show highlighting Doug Nunn’s 30+ years of coaching improvisational theater and comedy in German speaking countries. The podcast features interviews with 29 players from 3 countries and from more than a dozen comedy groups.Episode 61 is 2 Hours and 15 minutes long. Both the original German & English mixed version and the English dubbed version are available for download. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 61, a special show highlighting Doug Nunn’s 30+ years of coaching improvisational theater and comedy in German speaking countries. The podcast features interviews with 29 players from 3 countries and from more than a dozen comedy groups.Episode 61 is 2 Hours and 15 minutes long. Both the original German & English mixed version and the English dubbed version are available for download. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a long unexpected hiatus, SnapSessions! presents Episode 60, featuring an interview with Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi and a SnapSessions! tribute to San Francisco Giants star centerfielder, Willie Mays—"the Say Hey Kid”, just maybe the greatest baseball player of all time.  Alex de Grassi has been a guitarist since his early teens, growing up in a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s. Dropping the trumpet for the guitar after being exposed to the Beatles, the Stones and Mississippi John Hurt, de Grassi attended UC Berkeley in the early/middle 70s and took a lot of music theory along with his Economic Geography major. This led to classical guitar as well as ongoing labors as a street musician from Berkeley and SF to London, and then finally a connection with Windham Hill records and to his first album, Slow Circle, which came out in 1979. Since then, Alex has released a total of 16 albums dabbling in a variety of styles from Southern soul to Bolivian folk music to classical lullabies to the Woody the Woodpecker theme. In 1998 he was nominated for a Grammy for his album Water Garden. In addition, we talk to Alex about working with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on his “Your Brain on Music” series, musing on the possible existence of a music gene. There’s also an appreciative nod to some recent work he's done with the Real Sarahs.  And we find out just how many guitars Alex de Grassi actually owns. SnapSessions! also pays tribute to the NY & SF Giants’ great center fielder Willie Mays who died at the end of last summer. We cover Mays’ great career, his extraordinary feats as an outfielder and hitter, and offer Doug’s personal experiences of seeing Willie play both in Seals Stadium and at Candlestick Park. In addition, we’ve uncovered some outstanding recorded highlights as well as a musical gem saluting Willie Mays from the 1950s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 59, featuring an interview with British comedian and character actor, Andy Linden and a SnapSessions! Environmental Report Card for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, just in time for the November 2024 election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 58—a special podcast for us. We take a look at a bizarre night in Mendocino’s history, an evening we are calling “Night of the Mendo UFOs”. SnapSessions! presents an in depth exposé of a time in the Fall of 1978 when the Mendocino Coast was haunted by a series of UFO sightings remembered by 9 Northcoast citizens including me, Doug Nunn. In addition, SnapSessions! places this in the history of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), recent US congressional hearings with Navy and Air Force pilots, as well a look at the place of UFOs in the history of Science Fiction since that big surge of flying saucer sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of the indoor marijuana growing industry with environmental scientist, Evan Mills, as well as a look at the origins of Shakespeare Unscripted, a long form improvised play developed by Dan O’Connor and Brian Lohmann in Hollywood back in 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! presents Episode 56, featuring an interview with Environmental activist and futurist, Dar-Lon Chang, President of Geo-Solar Technologies. In addition, we talk to a group of young Climate activists from Mendocino High School regarding their thoughts on recent Climate trials that have occurred in Montana and across the nation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a short hiatus where SnapSessions!’ Techmeister Marshall Brown first got married and then went down with Covid, SnapSessions is back with Episode 55 featuring “Deutsche Brotbacken” including an interview with German master bread baker, Martin Siemann and a look at the bakeries of Central Europe. Also featured this month is another of our environmental reports—“The Hottest Summer on Record” where we investigate our ongoing Climate Crisis, COP 28, and our past horrific summer of world-wide fires. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SnapSessions! is back with Episode 54 featuring an interview with Ecologist, Botanist, and Environmental Science teacher Teresa Sholars. Also featured this month is an article—“The Saga of the Oakland As”, the story of the past 55 years of Oakland As’ baseball and the sad likelihood that they may soon be moving to Las Vegas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.