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Three Song Stories

Three Song Stories is an exploration of the power music has to connect us to times, places, people, and emotions from our lives. The show brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. It’s also a chance to sit back and listen to the eclectic mix of songs the guests have chosen for their ultimate musical memory short list.

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Episode 379 - Joe Harley

Three Song Stories ·

2025/06/09

Joe Harley makes music under his moniker Hotel Life, which signed to 9 Lives Records in 2023. He began playing guitar in the Fort Myers bar scene in 1993 with a number of bands including Potato Gun and Strip Club Moms. Potato Gun played the official grand opening of FGCU in 1997.Joe moved to St Pete in 2000 to be in an original rock band there and then moved back to Matlacha in 2002 where he got back into the local bar music scene and became a highly decorated saltwater fly fishing guide

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Episode 378 - Petar Kodzas

Three Song Stories ·

2025/06/02

Petar Kodzas was born in what’s now Serbia but was, at the time, Yugoslavia.During college, Petar toured and recorded as a lutenist with an early music ensemble; he played over 100 shows at the professional musical theatre, sat in jazz sessions, and performed throughout the former Yugoslavia as a musical ambassador for the international organization Jeunesses Musicales.Petar was also Senior Instructor in Guitar for the Eastman Community Music School from 1997 to 2017, and since then he’s

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01:16:43

Episode 377 - Jameson Yingling

Three Song Stories ·

2025/05/26

Episode 377 - Jameson Yingling

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01:21:09

Episode 377 - Desmond Meade

Three Song Stories ·

2025/05/19

Desmond Meade is a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow; a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and having been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. He's also’s author of the 2020 book “Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens.”Desmond is President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition -- the organization that led the successful effort to restore voting rights to some 1.4 million former felons in FL. The amendment passed

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01:29:18

Episode 375 - Teddy Byrne

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2025/05/12

Edward “Teddy” Byrne is a Producer and Writer at WGCU on the “Southwest Florida in Focus” TV show team. After earning degrees in Journalism and Psychology from Keene State College Teddy settled in Southwest Florida starting with a job with WINK News. As a Sports Producer there, he had the opportunity to tag along with the FGCU Men’s Basketball team during their epic “Dunk City” adventure to the Sweet 16 in 2013. A trip back to the newsroom led to him becoming part of the NBC2/ABC7 team

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Episode 374 - Lainey Schooltree

Three Song Stories ·

2025/05/05

Lainey Schooltree is a musician, comedian, streamer, and former half of the musical comedy duo The Steamy Bohemians. She then formedthe solo art rock project Schooltree. When the pandemic hit, she began performing on Twitch and found that live-streaming offered the interdisciplinary playground she'd been after. What began as a temporary pivot became a long-term transformation and these days she captains a spaceship on Lainey Schooltree TV - a live show where she’s an

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Episode 373 - Joshua Conyers

Three Song Stories ·

2025/04/28

Joshua Conyers is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, and a Grammy-nominated Baritone who is known for his captivating performances and recognized as one of the leading dramatic voices of today. He has performed with The Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera, New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, and many others. His recordings include the

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Episode 372 - Bill Bowen

Three Song Stories ·

2025/04/21

Bill Bowen is a singer/songwriter/computer engineer who grew up in Fort Myers but headed off to New York City in the 90s, in part to live the big city life and in part to be able to see Moxy Früvous shows. Bill is also the former roommate and Foosball partner of WGCU’s own Mike Kiniry. SONG 1: "Garden Party" released in 1972 by Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band on the album of the same name. 3:45https://youtu.be/1JK0Z6IdLF4?si=Ehx5EuV6wmldcnhw SONG 2: "The Drinking Song" by Moxy

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Episode 371 - Andrew Lipke

Three Song Stories ·

2025/04/14

Andrew Lipkeis a composer, producer, arranger, conductor, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and educator who has toured for more than a decade with the Led Zeppelin tribute band Get The Led Out and performed as a vocalist with Steve Hackman's Brahms V Radiohead symphonic synthesis; and he collaborates with World Café Live on music education programs for underserved youth in the Philadelphia area. Andrew has produced and released seven albums of original music spanning various genres; and hehas

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Episode 370 - Mickela Mallozzi

Three Song Stories ·

2025/04/07

Mickela Mallozzi is host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a PBS travel series that showcases the diversity of dance from around the world Mickela is a professional dancer and trained musician who had a dream in 2010 about travelling the world with a camera while dancing in the lives of everyday people. Since dreaming that dream she’s collected four Emmy Awards for the show in six seasons, with Season Seven set to release in May. Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi airs

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Episode 369 - Christina Goh

Three Song Stories ·

2025/03/31

Christina Gohis a French composer, poet, and vocalist whose multidisciplinary universe includes digital art, poetry and musical creation. She’s the initiator of a vocal technique for accompanying high range percussion and she’s a member of the Board of Directors of the French Association for Percussion. Christina has performed her music from Indonesia to Canada, demonstrating her vocal technique with unique configurations. Since 2023, the Chanson prize in the historical Jardin de France

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Episode 368 - Kim Dunham

Three Song Stories ·

2025/03/24

Kim Dunham was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Michigan. She moved to Connecticut after high school and lived there for about six years before moving to Florida in 1999. Kim’s been working at WGCU since 2019 as part of the membership team. SONGS AND LINKS The original opening 20th Century Fox intro into the original theatrical release of Star Wars in 1977. https://youtu.be/oJguy6wSYyI?si=SRwB09rUgasvWdrI Black Celebration by Depeche Mode - it's the title track of their fifth album release

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Episode 367 - Madison Morris

Three Song Stories ·

2025/03/17

Madison Morrisis a singer-songwriter who focuses on bringing his storytelling nature to light over top of an Americana sound - playing more than 200 live performances throughout the year as a full-time musician. He co-wrote "We're All Still Here" with his wife in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian after they were displaced from their home and lost so much. It was included on the official ballot for Grammy consideration in 2023. The newest single, “Hard Rain”, came out in July of 2024 and was

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Episode 366 - Scott Turow

Three Song Stories ·

2025/03/11

Scott Turowis a writer and attorney. He is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent, and most recently, Presumed Guilty, which hit the shelves in January of this year. All of his novels have been New York Times bestsellers.His works have been the basis for film and television projects…last year Apple TV+ released an eight-part limited series based on Presumed Innocent, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. From 1978 until 1986, Mr. Turow worked as Assistant United States

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Episode 365 - Tom Bayles

Three Song Stories ·

2025/03/03

Tom Bayles is Senior Environmental Reporter at WGCU. A lifelong Florida journalist, Tom has covered stories in 67 counties, including plenty of hurricanes. Tom covers climate change, biodiversity, water quality and quantity issues, Everglades restoration efforts, endangered and invasive species, beach and coastal issues, and the intersections of global warming and the economy, politics, religion, society, and science. Bayles worked for The New York Times Company in Sarasota, the Associated Press in

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Episode 364 - Mary Bichner

Three Song Stories ·

2025/02/24

Mary Bichner is an orchestral composer with synesthesia - that’s the neurological condition that allows her to see splashes of specific colors in her mind’s eye when she hears their corresponding pitches. Mary has served as composer-in-residence at The Vasilicos of Santorini in Greece, for which she composed a new string quartet work inspired by the colors of the world-famous Santorini sunset; she served a two-year composer residency at the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery of

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Episode 363 - Randy Kambic

Three Song Stories ·

2025/02/17

Randy Kambic has written hundreds of articles for The Fort Myers News-Press, Southwest Florida Parent & Child Magazine, The Banner, Florida Weekly and now The Naples Press. He compiled a regular weekly section on recreational tennis and golf for the Coastal Life section of the News-Press for more than two years; Prior to that, he working inpublic relations in NYC for more than 25 years for several agencies and also for Madison Square Garden.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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Episode 362 - Jeff James

Three Song Stories ·

2025/02/10

Jeff James is a Director of Professional TTEC Digital - and he's also the author of a self-published children's book called Brainbows: A First Reference Book for Very Young Minds. He describes himself as a music geek who spends his spare time listening to music, playing music (guitar mostly), or exploring music and looking for songs and artists that aren't famous but should be.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 361 - Renée Benmeleh

Three Song Stories ·

2025/02/03

Renée Benmelehis a multi-cultural vocalist, composer, instrumentalist and teacher. She has been joyfully singing Improv, Jazz, World, Ritual, and her own Original music for more than 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s the founder and agile facilitator at Sound Nourishment where she leads monthly classes, workshops, and events. She is also a Drum Circle Facilitator, and a childhood music practitioner.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 360 - Chris Keys

Three Song Stories ·

2025/01/27

Chris Keys has been in the restaurant business for just over 30 years and has spent almost 18 of those years with Melting Pot. He’s been an Owner/Operator of the Fort Myers restaurant since 2018. Before he settled in with Melting Pot, Chris worked with a few different national restaurants that include Checkers, Lonestar Steakhouse, and TGIFriday's. But he says most places he’s worked at were independently owned - including spending 4 years at one called Crowley’s at Stonehenge in

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