Creative

Chris is onboard today talking playing keyboards in a band In the build up for this years Bluescamp we look at the fundamentals for playing and being creative from the get go We will be looking at all the instruments in the band over the next couple weeks To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Stuart Ryan

From recording guitars on Amazon Prime movie scores to topping the charts with his best-selling guitar instruction books, Stuart Ryan is a versatile and sought-after guitarist. Ryan began his professional career in 2003 when he was awarded Guitarist Magazine’s ‘Acoustic Guitarist of the Year’. He spent the next ten years touring as a solo concert guitarist performing at major venues including London’s Royal Festival Hall and at many of the UK and Europe’s leading guitar festivals alongside legendary guitarists like Martin Taylor and Tommy Emmanuel.

Stuart and I talk shop and there are many interesting points in this for musicians including having a rival to spur you on.

For more information

 https://www.stuartryanmusic.com/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Pip Waller and Lucy Wells

Today I am interviewing Pip and Lucy about their work of plant spirit medicine and their book Touched By Nature

I am interested in the way the work developed from herbalism and Tai Chi into what they do now and I see parallels for musicians and artists. Very enjoyable chat.

PIP WALLER

Pip Waller is a medical herbalist and plant spirit medicine healer living in North Wales, UK.

She has been practicing and teaching natural healing methods for 30 years. Her first book, Holistic Anatomy, was published in 2009 and continues to increase in popularity. In 2015 she wrote The Herbal Handbook of Home & Health, a book of 501 herbal recipes for everything from laundry and medicines to string.

A shorter 350 recipe version, The Health and Beauty Botanical Handbook, was released in 2018. Her third book, Deeply Holistic, an inspiring book about being human and caring for all of our needs, came out in January 2018.

LUCY WELLS

Lucy Wells came to plant spirit medicine after a journey through community arts, tai chi and other energetic healing systems and has been in practice since 2006.

She combines her healing work with other arts and performance activities which also explore the nature of deep and transformative change.

She is an initiated firekeeper with the sacred fire community, a therapeutic counsellor and has also trained as a funeral celebrant. She is the author of one other book, The Wave Hub Chronicles (2011).

To find out about Lucy and Pip's experiential courses which guide you into the zone of deep nature connection, subscribe to www.touchedbynaturepsm.uk

YouTube channel.    Pip Waller - Being Human

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Nick Jenkins

I am delighted to be talking to a good friend of mine today, Nick Jenkins. Nick's involvement in journalism and charity work has led to some fascinating stories.

We talk about how spotting opportunities are often about being determined and interested in people, and never giving up on a good story is a good hack style.

Nick talks about interviewing Rick Parfitt from Status Quo following a lead that became a massive story about the Myra Hindley and also being involved in the early days of a conservation charity before it became a massive player in world politics.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

How lack drives creativity and builds character

Necessity is the mother of invention as they say

I will talk about the concept of going deep not wide.

Why the Internet is Killing the very thing that made rock music

The children being pressured to perform because someone is paying for there education

The grade 2 examination example of what happens to some children under pressure.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Aoife Anastasia Nally was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario Canada to Irish parents. Drawn to the stage, she was performing from the age of six years old in various community and professional endeavours. This launched her into McGill University’s prestigious Opera Performance program, Montreal which inspired her to form her own Opera/Musical Theatre Company, ‘SECOND.com/[email protected].’ producing critically acclaimed productions of: Company, Secret Garden, Sweeney Todd, Candide and Mozart’s Magic Flute. She then ventured further afield to do her Classical Theatre Intensive Post-Graduate studies at the London Academy of Music and Drama, UK. Which encouraged her to remain in England and pursue a life of performance on London’s West End Stages. Some of her favourite credits are: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Sweeney Todd with Imelda Staunton, Evita for the Donmar Warehouse and Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory. After releasing an album of her own music, Aoife was commissioned to write her own original musical “Hallowed Ground” based on the Elusian Mysteries, which has already enjoyed two professional workshop productions and is currently seeking further funding for a future fill fledged production. Aoife has found herself grounded here in the pandemic where she is working on her multimedia, performance, literary and visual arts piece of creative non-fiction titled “Drawing Strength: An Artist’s Guide to Creative Recovery”, which she won her development residencies at Atelier Austmarka, Norway and the Banff Centre for the Arts last year. She is hoping to release selections from this work virtually in the new year. Aoife has also trained as a Trance Channel, Psychic Medium and is initiated in several mystery schools. She is currently teaching intuitive painting, immersive astrology and psychic development online. You can follow her work at: Drawing Strength (Facebook), Aoifetography, Strength Drawing and the Painted Path (Instagram) To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Jerry Rothwell

Jerry Rothwell is a filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature documentaries: The Reason I Jump, based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida; How To Change The World, about the founders of Greenpeace; Sour Grapes (co-directed with Reuben Atlas) a film about a wine counterfeiter Town of Runners, about two girls in an Ethiopian village who aspire to be athletes; Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many offspring; School In The Cloud, about radical educationalist, Sugata Mitra; Heavy Load, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and Deep Water (co-directed with Louise Osmond), about Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. His work has won numerous accolades including two Grierson Awards, a Sundance Special Jury Prize, an RTS Award, the IDA Pare Lorentz Award and a BAFTA nomination.

Jerry and I talk about the creative process and there is much in here to inspire us to create. Jerry’s work is wonderful and original and takes the viewer into areas that are not what we expect and we talk about this

To see Jerrys work and find out more go to

https://jerryrothwell.com/films/

https://jerryrothwell.com/category/blog/

https://jerryrothwell.com/about/

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Dino Baptiste

Dino Baptiste is a highly energetic pianist, vocalist and entertainer from London UK. Now residing in Birmingham, Dino has strong links to Blues, Boogie Woogie & Rock & Roll as well as performing mainstream classics & current cover songs. His influences revolve around three idols since a teenager - Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis & Ray Charles. Here, Dino has seen each one a legend, perform with such showmanship and charm that has reflected in his own performance. Demonstrating a wealth of professional experience covering a 25-year period since 1989,

Dino talks about his influences and how he made the breaks that led him to play with mick Jagger, Roger Taylor, Dana Gillespie and many others. Great chat

Check out Dino’s stuff at the various social media

www.dinobaptiste.com

Dino Baptiste | Facebook

https://youtu.be/1tBO_9wKLYE

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Satish Kumar is an Indian British activist and speaker. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and is Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. His most notable accomplishment is the completion, together with a companion, E. P. Menon, of a peace walk of over 8,000 miles from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., the capitals of the world's earliest nuclear-armed countries. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate. Defending criticism that his goals are unrealistic, he has said, Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me "unrealistic" to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept. Satish talks about education, the beginnings of the small school and Schumacher college, the Indian perspective on Arts and many other things, a truly inspiring human. He points out in answer to my opening question; he is a human being, not a human doing. to find out more about Satish https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/about/satish-kumar

No Destination https://amzn.to/3rinG3b

Ted Talk https://youtu.be/uSLUd0veioU

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk 

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

How to find time and achieve things like becoming a guitar hero

Finding time to practice is difficult so this solo show focuses on a few gems of time management and practice psychology so you can hone your skills on an instrument oh and lose weight.

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music