The Harmonica Lady

  Interview on me Nedra your host of this podcast. ABOUT:Welcome to Painterly Life with Shannon Grissom! 🎙️ Your creative sanctuary where imagination, expression, and inspiration come alive. Whether you're an artist, musician, entrepreneur, educator, or anyone chasing a spark of creativity, this channel is for you. Join Shannon as she hosts heartfelt conversations with passionate creatives from all walks of life—sharing their stories, challenges, and the colorful journeys that fuel their art and purpose. Expect uplifting moments, insightful wisdom, and a fresh dose of motivation to help you embrace and pursue your own creative path. Hit subscribe and become part of our vibrant community celebrating the ever-evolving world of creativity. Let’s create, inspire, and grow together. SUPPORT CREATIVITY! Are you inspired by the conversations and stories we share on Painterly Life? If so, we invite you to become a vital part of our journey by contributing to our show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/2219255/support Links Painterly Lifepainterlylife.com Shannon Grissomshannongrissom.com Sock Monkey Oraclesockmonkeyoracle.com More Great Videos!youtube.com/@ShannonGrissom Amazonamzn.to/4bOSEr6

Fantastic and fun interview with Master Harmonicist Charlie Barath We talked about his record Just Me and My Friends Here is what he says on Bandcamp I put together this specific collection of songs for two reasons: 1. To demonstrate the diversity in my songwriting as well as my Harmonica playing and my Vocals. 2. To shine a spotlight on some of the amazing and talented people that I am fortunate to work with on a regular basis, AND call my friends. I am thrilled to be able to present this music to the listening public, and I truly hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I've enjoyed creating it! My sincere thanks to you! credits released May 13, 2021 Bandcamp https://charliebarath.bandcamp.com/album/just-me-and-my-friend-s?fbclid=IwAR2bxKtMDFfCMDgPs_Ov_is5ZkZj0G_39xo_UNrt4M7QyYT4OMJgsqSYskA You can also follow him on Facebbok https://www.facebook.com/charliebarathharmonica  here is the link to the art we talked about https://geoffreygordonfineart.com/?fbclid=IwAR1CAwS2Ru98J2V6KQfhYams31gXh4otQ3UkmqKCamKKAkReA5L-VmP4Ync   Check out our Facebook page The Hamonica Lovers https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496 Visit my web https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496

Interview with Paul Barry about his book Blowin' Like Hell From the ghetto clubs of South-Central Los Angeles to International fame, William Clarke will go down as one of the greatest and most innovative blues harmonica players of all time. Clarke's life was marked with much adversity and many challenges. From a tough upbringing to the throes of alcoholism, Clarke persevered through determination and hard work to become a brilliant soulful player, vocalist, songwriter, entertainer and producer. He left behind a rich legacy through the many great albums he produced that have endured the test of time and will continue to do so. He was a harmonica player's harmonica player and should always hold a spot in the heart of all blues musicians and fans.   Here is the link to buy  https://www.paulbarryblues.com/?fbclid=IwAR1NIdGtiF9cdLd5smVWZqW3ru40JQcwhVzbJQUfRJq0U0HPbVjObCgGh8g_aem_ATR4cQI8O62pReuasVWJSUTItQJGubIeZqfOEtCZK4ZtcJykgT_Vo25zamn_0BU1VcU3BZCDteUeF69U1-aplK8A

Fun interview with Dr. Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy® https://theethicsguy.com Through his practical, engaging and entertaining virtual and in-person presentations on ethical leadership, Forbes Contributor Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy®, shows organisations how high character is the key to sustained success. He lives in New York City with his wife Kristen Bancroft, who is a compliance professional in the financial services industry. To relax Bruce enjoys playing the drums and spoons, learning the harmonica, and trying to figure out the plot of The Godfather. This interview is how he came to love the Harmonica and is also now writing for Harmonica Happenings for SPAH https://www.spah.org And is studying under David Barrett https://www.bluesharmonica.com/home is the world's most published author of blues harmonica education material, a leading clinician and Grammy nominated recording artist. With over 4,000 lesson videos, lesson plans for all skill level players, downloadable mp3's and pdf's, along with forum experts and contributors, BluesHarmonica.com is THE place to learn blues harmonica Also we talk about how we met and how he is a long time fan of  this podcast and satisfied customer of The Harmonica Lady Tm  line of art www.nedraruss.com  

We talk about the journey and playing the harmonica being artist and here amazing product line as well as here wonderful original music all for the perspective of a female player. Check out her amazing line of products here https://www.sibblingrivalry.com.  You can find her on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@jubejams.    Nicole M. Joubert (Sticky) & Cindy A. Joubert-Kelly (Snidly) have parents who encouraged their strong creative minds & abilities to bloom into unique creative styles. Cindy being the darker of the two, Nicole colorful and lighthearted. They both have endeavors varying from illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and written works. Many of these have been published, contracted or printed. Outside of SIB.BLING RIVALRY, Nicole's illustrative works is known as: NikkinoxArts  & Cindy: Dreaming Lizard Graphics. The Sisters collaborated many times but ultimately worked separate. When they were young, they imagined lots, and felt one day they would have a popular T-shirt line like Chip & Pepper  (in the sense of, creative clothing team). The sisters have made great progress since the 80s. Back then they were known as Joubert Wolf Wear. At this time they painted clothing for local entertainers (Exotic Dancers & Band Members) with acrylic paints. Through the years the Sisters continue to refined their talents & grow, learning from each other. BORN FROM CREATIVE UNION The Sister's Mission is: To have a large line of quality clothing that is both creative & limited with a steady rotation of newer designs. Each item will list for a short time then retire. Your unique article of clothing will not be mass-produced such as a box store product. These beautiful designs are both wearable & collectible pieces of art. SR will keep creating exciting, unique designs, alongside those in demand. These epic designs are derived from the girls own passions, which in turn touch fellow hobbyists.    KEEP CHECKING SIB.BLING RIVALRY DESIGNS & SEE WHAT'S NEW ∘ WEAR A †UÐE ∘

This podcast is to share some great tracks Howard Levy sent me for you all Merry Christmas  To find the CD and much much more from Howard visit links https://levyland.com Also in loving memory of Buzz and Mikey  Dave Moore https://www.redhouserecords.com/artists/dave-moore/ Nick Clark https://www.facebook.com/nicclarkmusic/ Mike Caldwell https://www.facebook.com/mike.caldwell.585/ Buzz Krantz https://www.facebook.com/mike.caldwell.585/ SPAH https://www.spah.org Hohner https://www.hohner.de Nedra Russ  https://paypal.me/TheHarmonicaLady?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US  

Introduced by friends at a party a 420 party 420 2011 after that the rest is our story our history. Visit us at www.nedraruss.com  Like us at facebook https://www.facebook.com/njrmusic TiKtoK https://www.tiktok.com/@harmonica209411  

Time travel with me from 2009 and on some of my audio recording form my trips to SPAH. Hear some old clips of my visits and adventures. Visit www.spah.prg for more history and harmonica happenings. and visit www.nedraruss.com to wee what we are up to. 

From my  CDS enjoy the Irish jigs,  ballads, and melodies  Charlie McCoy https://www.charliemccoy.com Tony Eyers https://harmonicatunes.com/about/ James Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Conway_(musician). Nedra and Julio https://www.nedraruss.com Song Book https://theharmonicasongbook.com Steve Baker https://www.stevebaker.de/bio_en_10.html  

The Harmonica Lady Podcast Feb 19 2023   Blue Bird Valise  Razz My Berries Kurt Crandall www.Kurtcrandall.com  Good Blues Tonight Always Been Your Friend When The Frisco Left The Shed https://www.charliemusselwhite.com  Curtly Dance Telemann Canonic Sonata NO1 www.howardlevy.com Sixth Sense Solid Ground Deep Well Deep Pocket’s www.eriknodden.cm Life's Railway To Heaven  Peace int he Valley Daddy Sang Bass Wayfaring Stranger I’ll Fly Away Keep. On The Sunny Side https://www.facebook.com/mike.caldwell.585/ 

End of the year Christmas show. Thank you for tuning in and loving the harmonica Heres to a Happy New Year filled with music joy and peace. Enjoy from my vaults at KQBM and home studio music I purchase and that is giving by the artist for this show.   Christmas Time In The Country Kenny Neal Alligator records Christmas Collection Santa Claus Little Charlie and the night cats Alligator Records Christmas Collection Dashing through the snow Joe Filisko Please let me be your Santa claus William Clark Alligator Records Christmas Collection Oh Christmas Tree Mike Caldwell Christmas With Harmonica Mike Holiday Silent Night Charlie Musslewhite Silent Night Mike Caldwell Christmas with Mike Silent night Joe Filisko Harmonica for Christmas Baked A La Ska Ska of Wonder Reggae Stoplight for Christmas The Mystic Cowboys Harmonica Winds Country Hole int he soul of my Christmas stocking Nedra and Julio Blues Jingle Bell Rock Nashville Harmonicas Best-Loved Songs of Christmas Holiday Ave Maria (Bach-Gounot) Beata Kossowska Harmonica Christmas Europe Silver Bells Nashville Harmonicas Best-Loved Songs of Christmas Holiday O Christmas Tree Harmonica Rascal Rare Gene Jones Harmonica Classics Pop Rednose rdear Nedra Russ Christmas in Killarney David Court What Christmas Means to Me (feat. Stevie Wonder) 2:41 John Legend A Legendary Christmas Holiday Rockin around the Joy to the World White Christmas all byMike Caldwell Christmas With Harmonica Mike Holiday What the World need snap Charlie McCoy ear candy Custard Pie Sonny Terry Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Telephone BluesJingle Bell 4:02 Kwon Byung Ho Blue Christmas - EP Jazz 100 R.J. Mischo East Meets West: Blues Harp Meltdown, Vol. 2 Blues Jingle Bell Kwon Byung Ho Blue Christmas - EP Jazz Black Limousine JJ Appleton & Jason Ricci Dirty Memory Blues037 Bring It On Home (Single) Sonny Boy Williamson II His Best BluesNine Below Zero (1961 Single) 3:30 Sonny Boy Williamson II Never Leave Me Home Diana Redlin Blues Harp Women Blues-Rock It's Only A Paper Moon Filip Jers Quartet Filip Jers Quartet Jazz8/26/18, Angel With Straw Wings Him And Her Him & Her Do Texas Women Alternative Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring / Blackbird (Live) (Featuring Anthony Molinaro) Howard Levy Tango & Jazz (Live) Jazz 0

Great time at the 59th SPAH Convention in Tulsa OK. I had a great time and got to hang out with Charlies Musselwhite. This podcast is about that. Enjoy  To buy his new CD visit his web page https://www.charliemusselwhite.com To see more about SPAH visit link https://www.spah.org Visit my page athttps://www.nedraruss.com To leave a tip or help to support this podcast visit https://paypal.me/TheHarmonicaLady?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US  

Update of what is up. Whats to come and how things are going   

Web Page  http://michaelrubinharmonica.com   Players Mike Keller guitar Michael Archer Bass Mark Hays drums Producer Josh Fulero Engineer Matt Smith Studio 6 String Ranch   Podcasters web site  www.nedraruss.com 

This episode I had the pleasure of talking with Jerry Fierro. We talk about his time with Sonny Terry and how enlightening that was for himself and his now students. We also talked about what is going on with him these days in and around Naples Florida. Jerry and the band Mudbone run a jam every Tuesday night at the DogTooth sports bar 5310 Shirley St. Naples, FL 34109. Here are some words form the Florida Weekley  PROFILES IN PARADISE March 12, 2015 Jerry Fierro, with his harmonica and occasionally the congas, is a regular guest when the band Mudbone invites other musicians to sit in for a jam session on Tuesday evenings at Weekend Willie’s. Jerry plays great blues and is a terrific blues singer as well. It’s clear he’s having a great time when he plays. His level of excellence is not easily attained, and he’s had quite a musical journey.   He was born the ninth of 10 kids, just five minutes after his twin sister Mary, on Dec. 8, 1958, in Paterson, N.J. Although there were no musicians in the house (his dad was an accomplished auto mechanic and mom was a housewife), there was always music playing. Jerry remembers his parents having great parties with jazz standards on the record player and sometimes a live band in the yard.     He was a senior at Passaic County Tech High School, studying to become a baker, when he got the notion to play music. Inspired by watching a cousin play the harmonica and sing, he bought his first marine band harmonica in 1975 for $5.26 at the legendary Manny’s Music in New York City. Two more really good things happened that same year, he says:   First, he was introduced to Bob “Hoochie Coochie” Paolucci, who taught him what to play and, more importantly, what not to play. “Hooch is still out there doing his thing in Long Island, New York,” he says. And second, he met Son Lewis (Silk City Records) by answering an ad in the local music rag. “Son is a true bluesman who never made it big but should have,” he says. “He must have seen something in me, because he would sneak me into nightclubs to perform when I was 16. We’ve been playing on and off together ever since.” After a few years playing with Mr. Lewis, Jerry got the opportunity to expand his horizons by joining Impact, a local band of brothers (now called The Flying Mueller Brothers). They played the blues and almost every other genre of music, too. For eight years, from 1978 to ’86, the band played the New York metro area. It was during that time that Jerry met blues harpist Sonny Terry. Renowned for his unique style of “hootin’ and hollerin,’” Mr. Terry gave Jerry lessons on the harmonica. Other highlights of Jerry’s music career include playing with such greats as Junior Wells, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Copeland, Jorma Kaukonen, Felix Cavaliere “and now the best players in Southwest Florida — Mudbone,” he says. In 2014 Jerry won the trophy for Overall Champion in the Forida Harmonica Competition. https://www.facebook.com/jerry.fierro.10 Check out the Mudbone Jam with Jerry and the band https://www.dogtoothnaples.com/happenings/ I started this new page on facebook after years of establishing other pages one being the first woman admin at World of Hamronica and founding member of Harmonica Jam. Now We my husband Julio inglasses run this group of world wide harmonica LOVERS! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496 Visit my site for more cool linkd and blogs https://www.nedraruss.com  

Music from my vaults of KQBM shows    Don’t take advantage of me Jason Ricci JJ Appleton Dirty Money Cd Don’t badger the witness          “ “             “ “              Beautiful Slop CD Geaux Nits Kids                          “ “            “  “                   “ “  “ “     https://mooncat.org Rocket RIde                         David Barrett                    It takes Three CD Meet Me Where They Play the Blues Terry Leonino Blues Harp Women The Ballad of Mingo County                            Paula Davis  Stewart Too Late                                                            Little Walter  Singal Hooka Tooka Chambers Brothers Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways City Of New Orleans Charlie McCoy Ear Candy Country & Folk Amazing Grace Todd Parrott Songs From The Harp Religious Down By the RiversideSofie ReedRed HenBlues Blues With a WhoopSonny Terry & Brownie McGheeWizard of the HarmonicaBlues Take this hammer                                    “  “                                                     “    “ Old lost John                                             “   “                                                  “     “ Work Song                                               Paul Butterfield    The Butterfield Blues Band CD Born In Chicago                                              “  “                            “  “ Amazonas                             Howard Levy                                     Tango & Jazz (Live)Jazz Bring it to Jerome                                      Billy F  Gibbons                              The Big Bad Blue Accelerated Blues            Blues Tavlers                                                   HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album Nick Moss feat. Dennis Gruenling               HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album     Mickey Raphael                                             Hand to Mouth3/14/18, 1:33 PM Shake Your Moneymaker Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo n     Travellin' Tracks Fat Cats & Thin Dogs       Eric Noden & Joe Filisko         Missed Train Blues Me and Bobby Bones                                Nedra and Julio                     Blues news Summertime                       Christelle BerthonBlues Harp Women Sunday Soup                   Todd Parrott                                   Songs From The Harp  

Interview with Michael Rubin about his solo project Help make art and music with Michael go to his New Album Fundraiser https://gofund.me/cf834273   Web Page  http://michaelrubinharmonica.com   Players Mike Keller guitar Michael Archer Bass Mark Hays drums Producer Josh Fulero Engineer Matt Smith Studio 6 String Ranch   Podcasters web site  www.nedraruss.com 

Todays I interview Michael D'Eath -- President   Jerry Deall -- Vice President Of SPAH is a worldwide harmonica organisation based in the United States. SPAH —the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica —is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in the State of Michigan. SPAH advances its mission of preservation and advancement since 1963 in many ways. To learn more or register for events and become a member visit https://www.spah.org/index.asp  

Color outside the lines : In this 11 podcast I set the stage for more to come Information on events and classes going on in June 2021 highlighted. First off PARADISE COAST HARMONICA WORKSHOPJUNE 10th-12th 2021 Fort Myers, FLORIDA3 days and nights of seminars, performances and live jams with IBC finalist The Pitbull of Blues Band featuring Hohner endorsed artists: Todd Parrott Rob Paparozzi Jerry Fierro  https://jerryfierro8.wixsite.com/mysite-1/pch-workshop   Then talked about Jason Ricci visit his site for more information https://mooncat.org/?fbclid=IwAR0tutq_Xp0DEy6GO_E6mmBGdpLLU0I4mZ_nFV7-ozB4mVTkSQNkJIXW4DA   Closing talked about Me Nedra and ways to find out what is going on in my life and my art: Visit  www.nedraruss.com  www.njrmusic.com Talked about the group on Facebook to join  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496   Music from Mudbone Funk Live at Dogtooth Todd Parrott Songs from the Harp Jason Ricci and JJ Appleton Beautiful Slop  Nedra Russ Blues News 2021 https://nedraruss.hearnow.com   

Michael Rubin teacher performer from Austin Texas talks shop and more. Visit his web site http://michaelrubinharmonica.com/  www.njrmusic.com Visit Lone Wolf Blues tell them Nedra sent you  www.lonewolfblues.com