Who Do You Love? Musicians as Parents

TOWNSOUNDS

After a successful 12 episodes in 2023, the TOWNSOUNDS podcast is back with another 3 episodes for 2024. This first episode of the year takes an intimate look into the personal stories of a topic that you might not associate with music at all - parenting. The podcasts’ host, Sam Hodgson, couldn’t help but notice that throughout the archive interviews, used for this podcast series, the musical parents couldn’t help but mention the huge impact having kids had on their musical lives. In this episode Sam has the opportunity to pick the topic apart and in doing so reveals topics that are rarely spoken about in public at all. This is a heartwarming, joyous episode overall but it also reaches places of great depth, personal achievement and struggle. Whether you’re a musician, a parent, or an expecting parent, or if you care deeply about your local community and the people in it, or if you are fascinated by the stories of real people, this episode is likely for you.

The speakers for this episode are: Community musician and loop pedal wielding singer Jess Baker; Music therapist and roots musician Emily Druce; Bob Lockwood, who has been the double bass player for the Graham Browning Trio, Edges Ensemble, Crooks and Claridge, Marsden Community Jazz Band, String Fellows, Sabrina Piggett and many more; The Hanson family, who run Hanson’s Musical Instrument; Shop and Hanson Community Arts; Organiser of Holmfirth Festival of Folk, Alex Bywaters; Member of the Mash It Up Parang Band, John Joseph; Singer, songwriter, Ruby Wood.

All the music clips you hear come with the kind permission of our speakers.