Heading toward International Women’s Day on March 8th, our guest this week says:

“Listening to live music for me is just such an incredible experience because I’m not someone… I don’t personally enjoy the nightclub spaces, that stuff overwhelms me, but when it comes to listening to music, I could do that for hours. That’s good audio stimulus.”

This week on Outlook we’re speaking with Amanda Shekarchi, a musician and someone who works in media, about music, perfect pitch and its multi-sensory elements, and community/campus radio stations like the ones all three of us broadcast out of.

We talk family and sighted siblings, about working collaboratively with community whether sighted or not, and how collaboration involves everyone, including the essential role a mentor can play.

Amanda tells us about her radio experience, including working with Met Radio. (Her university station at Toronto Metropolitan), then onto the CBC with her work on shows like Day 6 and the doc she both produced and hosted “Playing By Ear”, and also her work as a monthly on air contributor and host for AMI (Accessible Media Inc.).

It was Family Day, just last month, when both us siblings happened to be listening to the CBC when Amanda’s “Playing By Ear” came on and speaking of family, we’re talking Amanda’s experience growing up in Toronto with hers and so much more on this first of multiple International Women’s Day episodes. So check out her radio show on Met Radio (12 80 AM) on Monday, March 10th at noon in Toronto for a Met 30 Special IWD Show.

`listen to Amanda’s CBC documentary “Playing `by Ear” here:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7110160

Find her interviews with musicians on Met Radio’s YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_HD2TZjQc&list=PL0t7bx4aRZ25qxBBq1rWly3scN5gl4S6S

And follow her on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/amandarayaofficial/