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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 465 - Shelby Blezinger-McCay

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 465 - Shelby Blezinger-McCay

Update: 2025-10-16
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New York City-based freelancing percussionist and educator Shelby Blezinger-McCay stops by to talk about her job activities, moving to NY from grad school, and her experiences work with So Percussion (03:00 ), subbing for Broadway shows, NYC transit, and visiting Long Island (23:00 ), growing up near Dallas, her DCI years, and playing tennis (37:50 ), her undergrad years at Auburn University (AL) and her experiences of the Alabama-Auburn rivalry (52:15 ), her grad school years at the University of North Texas and her year performing with the World Percussion Group (01:08:25 ), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of intense opinions, being a woman in the percussion field, horror movies, cycling and tennis, and composer Heather Christian (01:30:15 ).

Finishing with a Rave on the recent collaboration between Marching Mizzou and His Majesty’s Royal Marines (01:56:15 ).

Shelby Blezinger-McCay links:

Shelby’s Maestra website

Previous Podcast Links:

Brian Zator in 2017

Mark Ford in 2023

She-e Wu in 2025

Raychel Taylor in 2020

Pauline Roberts in 2024

Other Links:

So Percussion

World Percussion Group

Valerie Naranjo

Ed Smith

“INUKSUIT” - John Luther Adams

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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 465 - Shelby Blezinger-McCay

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 465 - Shelby Blezinger-McCay

Pete's Percussion Podcast