The House of Music presents The Bridge

by Brad McLemore

We will be exploring how musicians have learned to play music from generation to generation. Music is passed along in many ways. Sometimes through formal lessons or schools and other times from family members, neighbors or other folks in one's community...or all of the above! We'll explore the many ways this happens and how music can remain a vital part of our world and more specifically our local life. Whether we are musicians ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • The Bridge Episode 2 featuring Noah Levy

    The Bridge Episode 2 featuring Noah Levy

    Noah Levy is a drummer and family man who has played with an impressive list of Twin Cities groups and international icons. His credits include The Honeydogs, Golden Smog, The Bodeans, Mason Jennings, Peter Frampton and Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats. In this episode we discuss his upbringing and the influence of his older brother Adam, touring right out of high school, becoming a father and raising his phenomenal musician, multi-instrumentalist son. We discuss how Noah and his son Issac have been working together during the Covid year lockdown recording for other artist's projects in Noah's home studio Chubby Mammal Recording Studio.

  • The Bridge Episode 1 featuring Adam Levy

    The Bridge Episode 1 featuring Adam Levy

    Adam Levy is a dad, a singer-songwriter, and a teacher who has been making music in the Twin Cities most of his life. Probably best known in and out of Minnesota for his band The Honeydogs, his most recent band is Turn, Turn, Turn who has a great debut record called Can’t Go Back. In our conversation, Adam tells us how he discovered music growing up, how learned to play guitar and how he later studied Cultural Anthropology in college while honing his guitar skills on the side. We also talk about becoming a father, which eventually led him to teaching music classes, where his latest class has him teaching songwriting to incarcerated men in prison through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.

  • Trailer for The Bridge- Episode 1 featuring Adam Levy

    Trailer

    Trailer for The Bridge- Episode 1 featuring Adam Levy

    Trailer

    Adam Levy is a dad, a singer-songwriter, and a teacher who has been making music in the Twin Cities most of his life. Probably best known in and out of Minnesota for his band The Honeydogs, his most recent band is Turn, Turn, Turn who has a great debut record called Can’t Go Back. In our conversation, Adam tells us how he discovered music growing up, how learned to play guitar and how he later studied Cultural Anthropology in college while honing his guitar skills on the side. We also talk about becoming a father, which eventually led him to teaching music classes, where his latest class has him teaching songwriting to incarcerated men in prison through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.