Sunday Sessions with Gaelynn Lea

Sunday Sessions with Gaelynn Lea

Join musician and disability rights advocate Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation about creativity and resilience with a different guest artist every episode! What started as a response to the pandemic has morphed into a veritable talk show that features different musicians, poets, and writers from all over the country (and sometimes other countries). You can watch these conversations in full on YouTube and support Gaelynn Lea on Patreon.

Episodes

December 21, 2022 57 mins

Join Gaelynn Lea for a conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's holiday-themed episode features a special guest storyteller and playwright, Kevin Kling! We'll talk about how he got started telling his autobiographical stories in front of audiences, how he uses his art to address disability, and what it's like to write a play as opposed to a single story....

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode.  This week's guest is the singer-songwriter Ann Kathryn from Duluth, Minnesota! She'll play some of her piano-driven folk tunes, and then they'll discuss her latest album release and the evolution of the music scene in Gaelynn and Ann's hometown of Duluth!

This conversation origina...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is Namel "Tap Waterz" Norris from the hip-hop duo 4 Wheel City! He'll perform one of his songs and then share about his life's journey and his mission to use hip-hop music and culture to create more opportunities for disabled people.

This conversation o...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is  Angela Soffe from Yakima, Washington! She'll play some of her poignant Americana songs and discuss the intersection of her musical and spiritual journeys, her forthcoming album & her newest project called Heroica - a lifestyle and education brand for women with creativ...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest is the musicologist Elizabeth McLain! She'll discuss disability justice in the performing arts: examples of artists doing the work, what inclusive pedagogy means for music education, and why disabled scholars and musicians should lead the way.

This conversation originally ai...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is the Disability Rights activist and media maker Raul Krauthausen from Berlin, Germany!  They'll discuss his many creative endeavors like his blog and podcast, as well as the work he's doing around disability inclusion and accessibility. 

This conversation orig...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode! This week her special guest is Matt Wheeler from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They'll discuss Matt's love of storytelling, the process behind his lyrical songwriting, as well as his plans for the rest of 2021.

This conversation originally aired on YouTube on June 27th, 2021. You can watch this ep...

Mark as Played

Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week her guest artist is the fiction writer J. Mackenzie from Duluth, Minnesota!  They discuss J. Mackenzie's daily writing practice, her literary influences, her plot and character inspirations, and the creation of her young adult fantasy novel, The Platya.

This conversation originally aire...

Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

    My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

    The Breakfast Club

    The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

    New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

    Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.