Snap Sessions! Podcast

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Welcome to Snap Sessions!, a podcast that looks at artists and their creative pursuits from Northern California to Europe and beyond, as well as investigating provocative articles and broadcasts acros... more

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July 10, 2025 Alex de Grassi
After a long unexpected hiatus, SnapSessions! presents Episode 60, featuring an interview with Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi and a SnapSessions! tribute to San Francisco Giants star centerfielder, Willie Mays—"the Say Hey Kid”, just maybe the greatest baseball player of all time.

Alex de Grassi has been a guitarist since his early teens, growing up in a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s. Dropping the trumpet for the guitar after being exposed to the Beatles, the Stones and Mississippi John Hurt, de Grassi attended UC Berkeley in the early/middle 70s and took a lot of music theory along with his Economic Geography major. This led to classical guitar as well as ongoing labors as a street musician from Berkeley and SF to London, and then finally a connection with Windham Hill records and to his first album, Slow Circle, which came out in 1979. Since then, Alex has released a total of 16 albums dabbling in a variety of styles from Southern soul to Bolivian folk music to classical lullabies to the Woody the Woodpecker theme. In 1998 he was nominated for a Grammy for his album Water Garden. In addition, we talk to Alex about working with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on his “Your Brain on Music” series, musing on the possible existence of a music gene. There’s also an appreciative nod to some recent work he's done with the Real Sarahs. And we find out just how many guitars Alex de Grassi actually owns.

SnapSessions! also pays tribute to the NY & SF Giants’ great center fielder Willie Mays who died at the end of last summer. We cover Mays’ great career, his extraordinary feats as an outfielder and hitter, and offer Doug’s personal experiences of seeing Willie play both in Seals Stadium and at Candlestick Park. In addition, we’ve uncovered some outstanding recorded highlights as well as a musical gem saluting Willie Mays from the 1950s.
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1h 24min
November 01, 2024 Andy Linden
SnapSessions! presents Episode 59, featuring an interview with British comedian and character actor, Andy Linden and a SnapSessions! Environmental Report Card for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, just in time for the November 2024 election.
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1h 16min
August 04, 2024 Night of the Mendo UFOs
SnapSessions! presents Episode 58—a special podcast for us. We take a look at a bizarre night in Mendocino’s history, an evening we are calling “Night of the Mendo UFOs”. SnapSessions! presents an in depth exposé of a time in the Fall of 1978 when the Mendocino Coast was haunted by a series of UFO sightings remembered by 9 Northcoast citizens including me, Doug Nunn. In addition, SnapSessions! places this in the history of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), recent US congressional hearings with Navy and Air Force pilots, as well a look at the place of UFOs in the history of Science Fiction since that big surge of flying saucer sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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1h 12min
April 15, 2024 Evan Mills and Shakespeare Unscripted
SnapSessions! presents Episode 57 featuring a muckraking exposé of the indoor marijuana growing industry with environmental scientist, Evan Mills, as well as a look at the origins of Shakespeare Unscripted, a long form improvised play developed by Dan O’Connor and Brian Lohmann in Hollywood back in 1999.
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1h 26min
February 09, 2024 Dar-Lon Chang
SnapSessions! presents Episode 56, featuring an interview with Environmental activist and futurist, Dar-Lon Chang, President of Geo-Solar Technologies. In addition, we talk to a group of young Climate activists from Mendocino High School regarding their thoughts on recent Climate trials that have occurred in Montana and across the nation.
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1h 11min
December 02, 2023 Martin Siemann
After a short hiatus where SnapSessions!’ Techmeister Marshall Brown first got married and then went down with Covid, SnapSessions is back with Episode 55 featuring “Deutsche Brotbacken” including an interview with German master bread baker, Martin Siemann and a look at the bakeries of Central Europe. Also featured this month is another of our environmental reports—“The Hottest Summer on Record” where we investigate our ongoing Climate Crisis, COP 28, and our past horrific summer of world-wide fires.
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46min
August 27, 2023 Teresa Sholars
SnapSessions! is back with Episode 54 featuring an interview with Ecologist, Botanist, and Environmental Science teacher Teresa Sholars. Also featured this month is an article—“The Saga of the Oakland As”, the story of the past 55 years of Oakland As’ baseball and the sad likelihood that they may soon be moving to Las Vegas.
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1h 18min
July 12, 2023 Aaron Haye
SnapSessions! returns with Episode 53 featuring an interview with long-time Hollywood Art & Production Designer, Aaron Haye, as well as an article, “SnapSessions! Looks at the Future of Space Flight”, where our podcast wonders where Earthlings might be headed in the next years.
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1h 21min
May 16, 2023 John Hegley
SnapSessions! reboots with Episode 52 featuring an interview with British Comic/Poet/Musician, John Hegley and an article, Coopting Cop 27, a report on the disappointing United Nations annual Conference of the Parties on Climate Change this past fall.
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1h 10min
March 05, 2023 The History of Hit & Run Theater: Part 2
Mendocino’s SnapSessions! podcast presents Episode 51, Part II of their “The History of Hit & Run Theater”, premiering Sunday, March 5 on their podcast website—thesnapsessions.com. Part I debuted on January 29. Whereas SnapSessions! Episode 50 (Part I) focused mostly on Hit & Run Theater’s epic comedy revues of the 1980s, Episode 51 (Part II) catalogues the group’s work as an improvisational theater team. We start with the ensemble’s first improv work in the 80s and follow up over the past decade of improv comedy shows. Episode 51 will showcase more interviews of group members, producers, light techies, as well as musical improviser, Joshua Raoul Brody. It will also feature highlights from the group’s improvisational work from the past few years.
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1h 37min

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How many episodes does Snap Sessions! Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.