203 Aaron Jonah Lewis
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Banjo Chat
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This week’s episode is with Aaron Jonah Lewis and how music and the world as we know it, are changing!
We talk about making music in Detroit, and being a traveling musician. Thinking about the bigger picture, building community, finding the people who help you in your life. What it’s like making vinyl records again. Their Dos Senoritas album. Connecting to yourself and the people around you. Connecting to history, how banjo influenced ragtime music and how they've been using different arrangements and orchestration in ragtime banjo music.Some great perspective on how to support arts and music, and how their Banjo Dojo group music classes are harkening back to a more authentic way of learning music.
“When you are playing a banjo, you are connected to something really deep”.
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