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Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 310 - Eric Willie

Published: Sept. 15, 2022, 1:31 p.m.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Percussion Professor Eric Willie stops by to talk about the job there (05:00), his time in Brazil studying Maracatu earlier this year on a Fulbright Fellowship (25:45), growing up in West Tennessee and his time in DCI (40:40), his undergrad career at the University of Tennessee-Martin and Austin Peay University (TN) (49:20), attempting the band director thing and eventually heading to the University of Kentucky for his masters (55:50), teaching in a challenging situation at Wisconsin-Whitewater for a year (01:08:45), heading to North Texas for his doctorate, working at Tennessee Tech, and the reasons he took the UNCG job (01:16:20), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion literature, the Indiana Jones movies and his love of popcorn (01:40:15).

Finishing with a Rave on attending live events (02:03:00).

Links:

Eric Willie\\u2019s homepage

Eric Willie\\u2019s UNCG page

Megan Arns\\u2019 2016 appearance on the podcast

Alexandros Fragiskatos\\u2019 2019 appearance on the podcast

Cort McClaren\\u2019s 2022 appearance on the podcast

David Steinquest\\u2019s 2022 appearance on the podcast

Fulbright Scholarship

Maracatu

Kris Keeton

Michael Burritt