Iowa City-based percussionist, educator, and band leader Ginny Armstrong stops by to talk about her teaching responsibilities in and around Iowa, teaching community steel band, and performing regularly (03:50), growing up in West Virginia, playing organ, and getting into percussion (30:00), attending West Virginia University for her undergrad (44:30) and her master’s (59:15), moving to Nashville after her master’s, living and working there, and then going to the University of Iowa for her doctorate (01:09:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on being a woman in the field of percussion, cooking Thanksgiving dinner, great and terrible movies, David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris, Iowa women’s basketball, and some unusual gigs (01:30:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri and the chance to moderate a panel (02:01:30).

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