Mark Andes w/ guest interviewer Tom Ciurczak on The Anne Leighton Inclus...

After Technical Difficulties, I'm reposting Tom Ciurczak's and my interview with Mark Andes. https://youtu.be/-X0rCFxYgKk?si=29xze4pS9ggwySeS

Renaissance's Annie Haslam on the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

Renaissance's Annie Haslam on the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show.  I’m excited to have spoken with Annie Haslam, who has co-created “The History of Renaissance” tour with the band’s co-founder Jim McCarty, who you know from the Yardbirds.  Annie’s also going to be at ProgStock this weekend. This interview has no boundaries--we talk about many of her passions. It’s a pleasure, also, to work with her these days.

Lisa Wright on the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

Lisa Wright is a marketing person that wrote to Hit Parader about writing an article on Cheap Trick. I wrote back and explained what we were looking for. My response meant the world to her, and we recently connected. We have a lot in common. I was on her interview show and now she's on mine!

Mark Andes w/ guest interviewer Tom Ciurczak on The Anne Leighton Inclus...

Mark Andes w/ guest interviewer Tom Ciurczak on The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show.

Tom Ciurczak does most of the heavy lifting in this interview with Mark Andes, who I met when working with Firefall during the Pandemic. I was thrilled when Tom mentioned Spirit and JoJo Gunne as favorites, and said, “I’ll hook you up with Mark.  Thanks, Mark, for a good time...

October 6: Bronx Historical Society Presents The Kindness Session, a Poetry Workshop

The Bronx Historical Society is presenting "The Kindness Session," a free poetry workshop on recognizing the difference between kindness and cruelty to channel that in our writing on October 6 at 6:00 PM till approximately 7:45. The Poetry Workshop takes place at Poe Cottage, 2640 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx. Subways near the Visitors Center are the 4, B, and D train at the Kingsbridge stop.  Buses to the Center are Bx9, Bx22, Bx28, Bx38, and BxM4 (Express bus). The Poe Visitors Center is up the Hill from the Fordham Metro North train stop.

Led by area poet Anne Leighton, the Kindness Session will include sharing works from classic and contemporary writers including Edgar Allan Poe, Amanda Gorman, William Shakespeare, Tom T. Hall, Ann Hampton-Callaway, Emily Dickinson, as well as selected poems from attendees.

Once the attendees discuss poems, they’ll be encouraged to think of incidents where they recognize kindness from life experiences, friends and acquaintances, and how it affected their lives. From there, writers will be encouraged to create a first draft of poetry. Writers will read their poems, and be encouraged to revise a first draft by Thanksgiving.  

Anne Leighton appears on the Grammy-nominated album, “Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat,” (Audio & Video Labs) reading her poem “Feed Your Parents Well.” She’s contributed to The Indie Collaborative, The Literary Parrot, and Elephant Journal. Her poetry book “The Leighton Explosion” made enough of a profit to use her earnings to record an original song, “Got My Eye on You, Santa,” which found her a publishing deal with Sheer Music South Africa/Downtown Music, USA. Anne's performed in the Bronx at ART in the Basin, Johnny Zs, and throughout New York State include NYC's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Peter Max's Studio. She recently began hosting The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show on YouTube, and has included guests including The Bronx’s Peppy Castro (Blues Magoos, HAIR), “Lassie” star Jon Provost, Grammy-winner Ricky Kej, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson… 

Jon Provost & Laurie Jacobson on the Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show

The Anne Leighton Inclusion Interview Show presents a fun chat with Lassie's Jon Provost and producer/author (including of "Top of the Mountain-the Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965) Laurie Jacobson goes live at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT today! Both are animal lovers.

Ian Anderson & Anne Leighton Talk About Cats & Music

My interview on Cats and Music with Ian Anderson goes live at 8 am ET/1 pm UK/5 am PT on Sunday, August 10. Stories from this interview will be included in a speech I'll deliver this Thanksgiving for an online Cats and Music Symposium presented by Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. The topic focuses on my timeless classic artists--Jethro Tull, Grand Funk Railroad, and Renaissance's Annie Haslam--helping cats. including rescue groups and taking in strays.

I plan to make these interviews a regular thing beyond just my artists, and will do interviews with many more music people that have helped cats and learned from them!