Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 423 - Kathryn Irwin

Episode 423 - Kathryn Irwin Pete's Percussion Podcast University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) Percussion Professor Kathryn Irwin stops by to talk about her 2024 Virtual PASIC performance of Joe W. Moore III’s “Is This Madness?” (04:55) and her performance with percussion quartet Without Borders at the 2024 In-Person PASIC (22:35), her job at ULM, teaching for the Honors department, teaching elementary school and building the music program (25:20), growing up in Mississippi and her earlier musical experiences (47:00), going to Louisiana State University for undergrad (51:35), getting her master’s at the University of Kansas (01:03:00), getting her doctorate at Michigan State University and working with their drumline (01:18:35), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on being a woman in the percussion and band worlds, having a terrible mall job, the Summer Olympics, and the impact of Japanese Kabuki Theater on Sueyoshi’s “Mirage” (01:30:40).Finishing with a Rave on the 2020 documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters (02:04:35).Kathryn Irwin Links:Kathryn Irwin’s Virtual PASIC performanceKathryn Irwin’s homepageKathryn Irwin’s ULM pageWithout Borders’ YouTube page