Creativity in the Age of Covid w/Dr. Judi Bloom & Richard Skipper 2/17/2022

Published: Feb. 18, 2022, noon

For Video Edition, Please CLick and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/vsLJM9r6zdY Random Act of Kindness Day - Want to change the world? Start with a random act of kindness! One random act of kindness could be to tell a friend about this show! We will be joined by three special artists to be announced later this week who are creating against the odds of Covid. Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller.  Ron currently teaches guitar at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The New School, Midori and Friends, and is the founder and director of the website www.practicejazzguitar.com. Chuck Muckle (director/playwright/actor/composer) directed IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN and MOURNING BECOMES RIDICULOUS at the New York New Works Festival last year. Lance Ringel’s career as a writer and journalist has spanned more than four decades. His novel Flower of Iowa, an epic romance between two soldiers in the First World War, has met with unexpected success in the United States and Europe, receiving accolades from Kirkus Reviews and Stephen Fry, among many others. Both Arrow Collar Man and the musical Animal Story, for which Ringel wrote book and lyrics to Chuck Muckle’s score, made the semifinals of the New York New Works Theatre Festival.  He also wrote the narrative for At Home in the World, a joint production of Vassar and Japan’s Ashinaga Foundation, which played in Tokyo, New York, Washington, D.C., and Kampala, Uganda, under the direction of John Caird.