Philippe Quint is a multiple Grammy nominated violinist. He’s an advocate for contemporary music. Conductors he’s worked with include Andrew Litton and JoAnn Falletta, both of whom have been guests on this podcast. His programs include an Homage to Bach, Charlie Chaplin’s Smile, and The Legend of Astor Piazzolla. He’s performed with the London Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra among many others. He’s released 17 albums. His mentors include Itzhak Perlman.

My featured song is “Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet”, my recent release. Spotify link.

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Jim Kimo West is a multiple Grammy winning Hawaiian “slack key” guitarist, producer and composer with kind of a New Age bent. He went to Hawaii in 1985 and basically never left. Except to go on tour with Weird Al Yankovic, with whom he’s played for over 30 years and earned 5 Grammys and a Billboard #1 album. He’s also composed music for TV and films.

My featured song is “The Pardners”, from the album East Side Sessions by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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This episode introduces a new addition to the Follow Your Dream platform. It’s called Essays.

Over the years, I’ve had more than 750 in-depth conversations with creative artists from around the world. Those conversations have taught me a great deal about creativity, success, curiosity, purpose, and the creative journey.

To explore some of those ideas more deeply, I’ve launched Essays. It’s Follow Your Dream’s fifth pillar of content.

Essays draw upon lessons I’ve learned from my hundreds of artist guests, as well as my own experiences as a musician, author, and creator.

The first essay is called “What 750 Creative Artists Have Taught Me About Success”. And the second one is called “Pursuing Creativity Later In Life”.

In the first Essay I talk about how the most successful creative people I’ve met share a remarkable number of traits despite their differences in background, nationality, profession, personality, and artistic medium. Success is usually less about sudden opportunity than sustained commitment. Talent is important. But what has impressed me most is curiosity.

In the second Essay I discuss how society often tells us that our business and creative lives end when retirement age begins. We’re told that this is the time to slow down, take it easy, and coast through our remaining years. But it doesn't have to be that way. For some people—including me—the creative juices did not expire at this stage of life; to the contrary, they started overflowing.

Both of these Essays were published on the Medium app. A link to them can be found in the Pillars section of the website under Essays. I hope you’ll take a look.

And stay tuned for future Essays.

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Lola Kristine is a terrific singer and songwriter. She’s known as “the little girl with the big voice” and boy is that true, as you will hear. She combines jazz, blues and gospel. Her latest album is called “Chapters”. Her recording of 'We Are One' was featured on lran TV Network as part of the Woman Life Freedom movement. And she’s given me a couple of new songs for the Songfest portion.

My featured song is “You Started Something”, from the album Trippin by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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Alessio Bax is a remarkable Italian born classical pianist - a recitalist, a chamber musician, and a soloist. He’s appeared with nearly 200 orchestras, including the New York, London, Royal, and St. Petersburg Philharmonics. He has collaborated with Joshua Bell and his wife, Lucille Chung, another world-class concert pianist, among many others. He’s the founding Artistic Director of the London Festival of Chamber Music. He performs regularly at festivals all around the world including at Tanglewood. And he’s on the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory.

My featured song is “Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet”, my recent release. Spotify link.

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Christina Courtin is an outstanding Violinist, vocalist, and composer and a founding member of The Knights, the classical orchestra founded by Eric Jacobsen and his brother. She has collaborated with Ed Sheeran, Le Ann Womack, and Sara Bareilles, among many others. She has toured all over the world, and continues to have a thriving solo career. She has sung with artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Laurie Anderson, Bela Fleck, and The Orlando Philharmonic. She’s a featured soloist in the films Chappaquiddick and Free State of Jones, and writes music for This American Life. And she’s been a teaching fellow and performer at the infamous Sing-Sing prison.

My featured song is “Spring Dance”, from the album of the same name by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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Carly Paoli is a spectacular British classically trained soprano singer and a Classical Brit nominee. She’s known for her romantic, lyric driven performances across various musical genres including classical, contemporary, operetta and popular songs. She’s headlined at Carnegie Hall, St Peter’s Basilica, Windsor Castle, St James’ Palace and the London Palladium among many others. She's performed with Andrea Bocelli. She’s been on British television and she’s in huge demand in Italy. And she’s glamorous too, often being featured in magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, and Vanity Fair. She is the whole package.

My featured song is “Juliet Dances”, from the album East Side Sessions by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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After more than 750 episodes, I’ve observed that many of my remarkable guests are connected by one or more common threads.

Each episode of Special Collections focuses on a particular thread that ties together some of my guests.

In this episode, that common thread is the British Invasion era of the 1960s.

The era began, in essence, with the appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. It was the most-watched television broadcast up to that time, with an audience of more than 70 million people. And like other “invasions,” this one had a global impact.

It sparked a revolution in music, fashion, and culture that changed the world. One British musical act after another came to America and captured the imagination of a generation.

The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, and many others led the way, taking over American radio and redefining popular music and culture.

I was a teenager at the time, and like millions of others, I was completely captivated. I wanted to look like them, sound like them—and be part of that world.

Now, more than 60 years later, I’ve had the extraordinary opportunity to speak with a number of my boyhood idols from the British Invasion era on this podcast.

This episode reintroduces seven remarkable musicians from that era, each of whom has been a guest on the show.

Each had a front-row seat to the excitement, the success, and yes—the chaos of the time. And importantly, each has continued to perform and create music over the decades.

Here they are again.

Peter Noone
(Herman’s Hermits)

Peter Asher
(Peter and Gordon)

Rod Argent
(The Zombies)

Jeremy Clyde
(Chad and Jeremy)

Billy J. Kramer
(Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas)

Allan Clarke
(The Hollies)

John Lodge
(The Moody Blues)

Listen to this Special Collections episode for more on each artist including an excerpt from one of their hit songs.

This is Robert Miller with Follow Your Dream.