#107 Kevin Roy Kramer, composer, performer, educator

Kevin Roy Kramer has been listening to the Planetary Gig Talk podcasts, has attended Victor Wooten's camps, and reached out to me so I invited him to do a podcast interview. What a smart, eclectic, thoughtful, cool guy! Kevin started with the recorder in 4th grade, trumpet in 5th grade, guitar in 8th grade, and now also plays drums and other instruments. Kevin says, "Music is a way for people to just express themselves as themselves." He also says music "is a great way to connect and reconnect with yourself and it's a source of renewable joy." Kevin is a very spiritual human too, and has been practicing yoga for some time and also setting mantras to music, i.e., cosmic chants. He says we have been in a visually oriented society and the auditory has been overshadowed. He says sound and vibration are building blocks to our material world. "Music actively enriches our lives." "I know how music has helped me and inspired me, and so if I can make music that down the road helps other people and inspires them, then mission accomplished, I suppose." Kevin says that the power of music is really the power of love. It's more than just the love of two people; "we have so much in common, we're all in this together."