Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 309 - John Lawless

Kennesaw State University (GA) Percussion Professor and Freelance Percussionist John Lawless stops by to talk about his teaching gigs, the local gigging scene, and the Atlanta Percussion Trio (03:30), growing up in the Atlanta area, getting started in percussion, and training for triathlons (23:45), his college years at Georgia State and years after undergrad teaching college, performing, his golf background, and more about the Percussion Trio (48:20), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions (01:07:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1999 novel Girl With a Pearl Earring (01:23:25).

Links:

John Lawless’s Kennesaw State page

John Lawless’s Innovative Percussion page

Marcus Hawkins’ appearance on the podcast in 2022

Jack Bell

Robert Shaw

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Claire Kenney

Scott Douglas

Steve Hemphill’s appearance on the podcast in 2020

Gary Werdesheim

Karen Hunt

Paul Yancich

Tom Float

Leigh Howard Stevens

Spirit of Atlanta

Piedmont Park

Bruno Kirby in City Slickers

Chris Deviney

Rory McIlroy

Somewhere in Time trailer

Friday the 13th trailer

Augusta National

The Joy of Music - Leonard Bernstein

Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky

Silent Night - Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell

Raves:

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier