The Greg Heaney Music Podcast Show

My guest on this episode of the show is my old friend Mike Nix.  Mike is a 15+ year design veteran hailing from Denver, Colorado, and he is quite good at what he does.  The two of us first got to know each other in New Orleans, Louisiana when we were both at Loyola University in the early aughts.  Mike (I think) designed some flyers for bands I was in down there, and even around 2003 - 2005 he was very highly regarded for his talen...

Well, we certainly had a LOT of fun recording this episode in the studio.  This time I welcomed a participant of mine in The Music Exploratorium program, AJ Haas, and his mom Angela.  AJ is an incredible young man aged 12 who has perfect pitch, a very strong sense of rhythm (he could play drums on his first try), a wicked sense of humor, and diagnoses of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

During the course of our at times musical co...

On this episode of the show I welcome Rachel Ebeling, the co-founder and executive director of The Angel Band Project, whose mission is to provide trauma-informed music therapy and advocate for those impacted by sexual and intimate partner violence.

Rachel and I had a lovely, wide-ranging conversation during which we discussed the origins of her organization, stories of survival and healing, specific music therapy interventions, and...

This episode features an old friend, my mentor from senior year of college at Loyola University, New Orleans: Mr. John Snyder.

John Snyder is a Grammy Award-winning music producer with over 40 years of experience, known for his extensive work in jazz and blues. His production career began in 1977, and he has produced over 350 original recordings, with 34 receiving Grammy nominations and 5 winning Grammy Awards. His work spans a wide...

Hey hey everyone!  Here is episode 29 of the show, and it features a great conversation between myself and a young lady who just started a school for folks with disabilities.  In this conversation we dive into instructional techniques for working with different levels of needs, the history and practice of Applied Behavior Analysis, songwriting as therapy, and many more topics.

My guest is, like me, a former student at Loyola Univers...

Hey hey podcast party people!! Here's my conversation with Shane Presley of The Rock Paper Podcast, a local St. Louis entertainment podcast that features hour-long interviews with artists, comedians, musicians, and other creative folks around the St. Louis region.

It was my first time meeting Shane, although we've been connected online for a bit.  He's a great guy with a long history in the St. Louis music scene, from...

This episode features The Dynamic Trio, a band that has formed under the umbrella of Different Dynamics, an incredible nonprofit doing incredible work around the St. Louis region.  

The Dynamic Trio is:

Holly Connor - pianist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist

Justin Lord - drums, definitely not vocals, at times keyboards

Greg Heaney - guitar and voice

Holly makes a MAJOR announcement on the show that you will NOT want to miss.  I won&apo...

This episode features a fellow musician / educator Mr. Brian Lee Bauer.  Brian is the president of Mimic Music Services in St. Louis, MO, and he is also a music therapist.  We have a conversation about different methods we use for teaching music, dive into our histories as performers, and generally talk about how much we love what we do.

Here's a link to Mimic Music: https://www.mimicmusicservices.com/

This was a fantastic oppor...

A U High! U High! classmate and old friend of mine, Mr. Sean Leahy joined me in the studio recently to chat on the podcast about his business: Full Spectrum Ice Sculptures.  Sean has been in the ice sculpting game for a LONG time, and we go through how he got into the artistic pursuit, how he formed his business, and what he is doing with his business these days.

We talk failures in business, set-backs, major wins, the art...

Karla Harris, a highly accomplished and talented singer/songwriter from my hometown of St. Louis, and her team reached out to me a few months ago in order to have a conversation about music, specifically jazz. 

I am very happy she did find me, because this is a great conversation between the two of us. Karla is a fantastic singer, and a very kind woman. She informed me during our time together that she has been going throu...

Marlin Bonds, the master of the hook, came into the studio to chat with me on October 30th of this year to talk up his newest venture, HypnoLoops.  For those who don't know, Marlin is a VERY accomplished musician, music producer, and songwriter who has been in the music business for a long time.  He's been nominated for multiple Grammy awards and has sold enough records to be called 7x Platinum.  The man has many talents....

My old friend Sherri Jost joined me in the studio for a conversation about her book "Stronger Together: Walking Through Trauma, PTSD, & Abuse" which is her personal story of struggle and perseverance in life.  Her book is quite personal and deep, but it also includes pages for the reader to use some of the tools offered by Sherri through journaling and reflections on the book's content.

Here's the l...

This is my second in my Katrina series of podcasts, and I welcome my old friend Charlie Oxford, a singer-songwriter / producer / all-around good guy based in Nashville, Tennessee.  On this episode Charlie and I discuss parenting as a musician, the use of social media to advance your music career, and of course the central traumatic event in both of our lives, Hurricane Katrina.

I hope you enjoy this lively conversation I h...

I've wanted to do this since I started the podcast ... get two moms of kids with special needs into the studio and record our conversation.  My "fast friend" Jessica started bringing her daughter Rhae into The Music Exploratorium recently and mentioned to me at the elevator that she wanted to start a podcast with her friend Samantha, and thus the stars aligned.

This episode is phenomenal.

The three ...

It is my joy and pleasure to introduce to you, the podcast public, miss Vannah Leigh.  Vannah is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader at the beginning of her career in the St. Louis region.  

Vannah and I met when she and her two guitar slingers played a benefit for a friend of mine with ALS that I produced at Bar K in St. Louis.  During the event I was immediately impressed with Vannah's maturity, her joyfu...

We got one published!  My friend Gabe and I collaborate on this podcast to play a little music ("Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Amazing Grace"), discuss the beginning of the school year, talk neurodivergence, do some throat singing, and talk teachers and students.  

Gabe was a student of my previous guest Carolbeth True, and we talk a bit about what it was like for him to learn from her and how that exper...

On this, the first of my Katrina Series of podcasts, I welcome my old friend Georgia Agerton (AKA Georgia McBride) who is a music therapist with McConnell Music Therapy Services in Northern California.  

Georgia does amazing work for her clients and gives a beautiful run-down of what music therapy is, how it is used from beginning of life to end of life, different factions within music therapy as a discipline, and insights...

She hates being called a legend, but when you know enough of Carolbeth True's students who heap enormous praise on the music education they have received from her over the years, it's tough to deny her legendary status.  She has been a mainstay of the St. Louis jazz scene for so many years and is still teaching as an adjunct professor over at Webster University, teaches privately, and keeps a very full performance schedul...

As a Father's Day present to my wonderful brother Mike Heaney, here is the officially published podcast that his kids Cora and Seamus recorded with me a few months ago.  We even dive into a little childhood memory I have of learning to play guitar at the same time when my brother and I were young.  Ahhh memories!

This conversation gets WILD and ping pongs around to hundreds of different topics.  The kids and I talk mu...