ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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The Happy Hour Harmonica podcast brings profiles of some of the top harmonica players and technicians today.
The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com.
If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour.
Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/
Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
61 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
150 episodes
since April 9, 2020
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~43.54% of listeners are from United States.
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Hermine Duerloo, Laurent Maur and Alexandre Piret join me on episode 150, for a retrospective on the great Toots Thielemans.
Toots was born in 1922 to humble beginnings, in Brussels, Belgium, where his parents ran a cafe. His first instrument was an accordion, which he started playing at age three…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Episode 149 is the third compilation of the ten minute question answers from episode 112 to episode 148.
Not every episode had a ten minute question, as there’s been quite a lot of retrospective episodes in this batch. So there are 27 episodes covered here.
I hope you enjoy listening back to this c…
Hank Shreve joins me on episode 148.
Hank started playing harmonica at age eight, and that has remained his true love despite learning various other instruments. He explains how his drumming background shapes the rhythmic feel of his harmonica playing, and how blues opened the door to everything fr…
Santiago Alvarez joins me on episode 147.
Santiago is a chromatic player from Buenos Aires, who has dedicated himself to the folk traditions of Argentina, including writing a thesis on the history of the Argentine chromatic harmonica under the guidance of his mentor Franco Luciani.
Specialising in …
Ryan Hartt joins me on episode 146.
Ryan is a harmonica player, vocalist and songwriter from New England.
After completing musical studies, he headed to Los Angeles in the late 1990s to immerse himself in the blues scene, learning from West Coast swing heavyweights, including sitting in with Rod Pi…
Josh King joins me on episode 145.
Josh hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, and picked up his first harmonica at just six years old.By the time he was eight, he’d found an incredible mentor in the legendary James Cotton, after boldly sneaking into Cotton’s dressing room at a show. That chance enc…
Shane Sager joins me on episode 144.
Shane is from Boston. In his early teens, a hand injury forced him to give up drumming, so he turned to the harmonica and never looked back. At Berklee College of Music he studied drums, as harmonica wasn’t offered, but left after two years to focus fully on the…
Kyle Rowland and Kenny Neal join me on episode 143 for a retrospective on James ‘Mr Superharp’ Cotton.
Born in 1935 on the Bonnie Blue plantation in Mississippi, James Cotton received his first harmonica from his mother and learnt by ear, captivated by Sonny Boy Williamson II’s King Biscuit Time br…
Victor Puertas joins me on episode 142.
Victor Puertas grew up just outside Barcelona, discovering the blues in his early teens, splitting his passion between harmonica and keyboards. At 18 he traveled to the US and had the chance to meet his idol, Gary Primich.
Back home, Victor formed The Suitca…
Yoonseok Lee joins me on episode 141.
Yoonseok is from South Korea where he first took up the tremolo harmonica. He discovered the chromatic when he heard Sigmund Groven playing at the Asia Pacific Festival in 2004, and started taking lessons with Sigmund. This culminated in Yoonseok studying at t…
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