Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Curious People That Do Extraordinary Things (EP013) Guest: David Chudwin | Author

I WAS A TEENAGE SPACE REPORTER - From Apollo 11 To Our Future in Space

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

Today’s guest is David Chudwin. He’s the author of the book “I WAS A TEENAGE SPACE REPORTER “ (Published by LID Publishing)

This book is primarily about David’s experiences as a young newspaper reporter covering the historic Apollo 11 space mission for the University of Michigan paper The Michigan Daily. His informal style takes the reader back to the days when daily reality was focused on space missions to the Earth’s Moon. He was the only NASA credentialed college newspaper reporter at Cape Canaveral during the Moonshot and his book I WAS A TEENAGE SPACE REPORTER expertly chronicles his magical experiences as a 19 year old journalist.

"At the start of 16 July 1969, just after midnight, I boarded the Apollo 11 capsule to go through a several hundred item 'switch list' to assure the ship was ready for crew ingress. I was very excited to be a part of this historic mission leading to our first landing on the Moon. David's book gives one a great perspective of the excitement and experience of someone outside the Apollo Program!" - FRED HAISE, Astronaut, Apollo 11 Backup and Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot

Photo Credit: David Chudwin

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Curious People That Do Extraordinary Things (EP012)

Guest: Brady Blade Jr. - Drummer/Producer

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

I am excited to present today’s guest, drummer/producer Brady Blade. He’s best known for recording and performing with world renowned musicians such as Emmy Lou Harris, Dave Matthews, Steve Earl, Charlie Sexton, Doyle Bramhall,. And if this this list wasn't enough, Brady has make music with The Waterboys, Indigo Girls, Jewel, Patty Griffin, and Soloman Burke. The Brady family has enjoyed a long musical collaborative relationship with the Canadian music producer/songwriter/ performer Daniel Lanois.

This is one of three interviews that features the Blade musical family. While this interview is with Brady Blade (Jr.), upcoming Dreamers2Makers broadcasts will feature conversations with his brother Brian Blade and their father Brady Blade Senior. It is not an understatement to say that the Blade family is a music and artistic force on par with Bach or Gershwin.

Today’s podcast was recorded at the Blade family home in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was a great pleasure to reconnect with Brady and hear lovely stories about his family and musical life.

Photo Credit: Brady Blade

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Curious People That Do Extraordinary Things (EP011)

Guest: Pastor Brady Blade Senior

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

Today’s guest is Pastor Brady Blade. He’s best known for his 58 year ministry at the Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport Louisiana and founding the legendary gospel music group The Hallelujah Train. He’s the husband of Dorthy Blade and the father of world renowned musicians Brady and Brian Blade.

It is not an understatement to state that the Blade family under the parenting of Brady and Dorthy Blade have become an artistic, musical, and inspirational tour de force equal to the Marsalis and Neville families.

This is one of three interviews that features the men of the Blade musical family. I had originally planned to conduct one interview with my friend Brady Blade Junior during a return to his childhood home in Shreveport in May 2019. While interviewing Brady Jr., he suggested that I interview his Dad, Brady Senior.

So after I wrapped the interview with Brady Junior, I rushed across town and found myself in Pastor Blade’s office surrounded by guitars, amplifiers, and books spilling from the many bookcases

My interview covered many subjects and details about his life as Pastor at the Zion Baptist Church and as singer/bass player leading The Hallelujah Train gospel group.

It was one of the highest honors of my life to interview Pastor Blade.

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Stephen Slater

Archive Producer for the documentary film Apollo 11

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

Interview by Brandon Fibbs (Wikisurfer, Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey)

EP010

Today’s guest is film director and documentary producer Stephen Slater.

He is the Archive Producer for the 2019 documentary Apollo 11. This award winning film has appeared on the world stage as commemorations are taking place to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 space expedition. The documentary was directed by Todd Douglas Miller and has already become a hit internationally.

Interviewing Stephen Slater is guest host Brandon Fibbs. He is best known for his work as researcher for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and as associate producer for The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. He is also one of the masterminds behind one of my favorite new podcasts, Wikisurfer.

Stephen Slater

imdb.com/name/nm3936744

Apollo 11 Film Trailer

youtu.be/eb_qTKXmc34

Apollo 11

imdb.com/title/tt8760684

Brandon Fibbs

twitter.com/bfibbs

WikiSurfer

wikisurferpodcast.com

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | APOLLO 11 - We Have Landed On The Moon

Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. An estimated 530 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969. - NASA nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/...s/apollo11.html

Capital Records (SKAO - 326)

Special Narration by Paul Haney

Engineers – Jay Ranellucci, Rex Updegraft

Producer – Dave Dexter Jr

Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Pranvera Hyseni - Founder and Director Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

EP008

Today’s guest is Pranvera Hyseni. She is the founder and director of the Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo. Many space journalists from her home country of Kosovo have called her the next Carl Sagan.

In 2017 Ms. Pranvera traveled to the United States and presented the keynote speech at the 2017 Texas Star Party. She also lectured at SpaceFest 2017 and VIP visits to Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and other NASA facilities. She also was able to visit educational institutions such as the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the LADD Observatory.

Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo is a chapter member of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project.

Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo:

facebook.com/Astronomy-Outreac...reach-of-Kosovo

Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project:

solarastronomy.org

Image credit: Brian Matney - Matney Graphics (Used by permission)

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Music Track underscore for Pale Blue Dot monologue

"Blues for Sagan from the Suite Poetry of Earth and Sky

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Dan Haerle - JAZZ HALL OF FAME / JAZZ EDUCATORS NETWORK 'Legend of Jazz Education'

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

EP007

Jazz pianist/composer educator Dan Haerle was inducted into the International Association of Jazz Education Hall of Fame in 2003. He was awarded the Jazz Educators Network "Legend of Jazz Education" distinction in 2012 along with co-recepients Jamey Aebersold, Jerry Coker, and David Baker. He was a Professor of Music in the Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the University of North Texas.

Haerle has written important jazz education text books (The Jazz Sound, Jazz Fundamentals) and has performed with some of the world's greatest jazz artists including Pat Metheny, Freddie Hubbard and Clark Terry.

His new book Questions and Answers - Insights on Being a Better Jazz Musician has just be published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

tinyurl.com/Dan-Haerle

Music Tracks

Triste (Jobim)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Harbach/Kern)

from the album The Dan Haerle Quartet - Live at Luminous Sound

Dan Haerle, piano | Brad Leali, sax | James Driscoll, bass | Ed Soph, drums

Peace (Silver)

from the album Dan Haerle - Standard Procedure

Dan Haerle, piano | Bob Bowman, bass | Jack Mouse, drums

Theme music "Rio San Juan" by Mike Dawson, Mitch Paliga

from the album "Dawson's New Rage - When the Bell Rings"

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Wouter Kellerman - GRAMMY & SAMA AWARD WINNER

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

EP006

South African flutist and composer Wouter Kellerman won a GRAMMY for his album Winds of Samsara. The 2015 album was a collaboration with award co-winner Indian composer Ricky Kej.

Kellerman has just released his latest recording "Symphonic Soweto - A Tribute to Nelson Mandela." The album is a lifelong dream of Kellerman’s and features the Soweto Gospel Choir, KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic and Angelique Kudjo.

Music tracks (Wouter Kellerman, flute)

Track from album "Winds of Samsara"

Madiba

Tracks from album "Symphonic Soweto"

Soweto Travels

Asimbonanga/Biko

Mandela Medley

Track from album "Love Language"

Zininzi

Theme music "Rio San Juan" by Mike Dawson, Mitch Paliga

from the album "Dawson's New Rage - When the Bell Rings"

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Jamie Glaser - Jean-Luc Ponty / Jon Anderson

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

EP005

Jamie Glaser is best known as the guitarist with violinist and jazz pioneer Jean-Luc Ponty. Jamie is one the great guitarists of our time. He’s also recorded and performed with Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer, Lenny White and Bryan Adams. Jamie is also one of world's best commercial and film/tv composers with credits ranging from Seinfeld (Jonathan Wolff) to networks like ABC and CBS. And he has written the powerful and personal book about his life Hear the Silence.

Photography credit thumbnail meme: Kevin Raymond

Music Tracks: Jamie Glaser (guitar)

from "Jean-Luc Ponty Live" (Atlantic 1979 | SD 19229)

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Mirage (Jean Luc Ponty)

Imaginary Voyage - Part IV (Jean Luc Ponty)

Jean-Luc Ponty - electric violins and keyboards

Jamie Glaser - guitars

Ralphe Armstrong - electric basses

Allan Zavod - keyboards

Casey Scheuerell - dums and percussion

Joaquin Lievano - guitars

Theme music "Rio San Juan" by Mike Dawson, Mitch Paliga

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Dreamers2Makers Podcast | Guest: Kyle Sullivan - Screen Door Pictures & Trekspertise

Hosted by Mike Dawson (Songwriter, Composer, STEAM Advocate)

EP004

Kyle Sullivan is the Grand Prize Winner of the Oceanwide Expedition 2017 Antarctic Contest. As the Grand Prize winner, Kyle was awarded a 30 day Oceanwide Expeditions voyage to Antarctica. The result of this Oceanwide Expeditions journey is his film documentary “Adventures In the Southland.”

OCEANWIDE EXPEDITIONS:

oceanwide-expeditions.com/contest-2016

KYLE SULLIVAN - ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTHLAND:

youtube.com/watch?v=zPqqpWT4J88

TREKSPERTISE:

youtube.com/user/neoteotihuacan

Theme music "Rio San Juan" by Mike Dawson, Mitch Paliga

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