Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 456 - Jessie Flannigan

Composer, Performer, Educator, Missouri PAS Treasurer, and Academic and Administrative Coordinator for the Music Department at Washington University (MO) Jessie Flannigan stops by to talk about how she manages and is successful with her large workload and schedule (03:35), all things Missouri PAS and updating the Prescribed Music List (16:35), growing up in St. Charles (MO), her early percussion experiences, and participating in German Club (31:05), attending the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) for undergrad, the family reasons for the delay of the finish of her degree, and living in rural Illinois (41:15), working for Mozingo Music, teaching marching band, and substitute teaching (54:45), working at UMSL in Music Administration and the differences in working there vs. WashU (01:01:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on helping students prepare for college, great movies, The X-Files, impromptu djembe solos, The Linda Lindas, and the greatness of Matt Henry (01:09:30). 

Finishing with a Rave on Pete’s travels to the Canadian Percussion Network’s The Space Between IVconference (01:55:35).

Jessie Flannigan Links:

Jessie Flannigan’s website

“Street Spiders” - Jessie Flannigan

“Tiny” - Jessie Flannigan

Previous Podcast Guests Mentioned:

Matt Henry in 2017

Andrew Richardson in 2023

Nathan Daughtrey in 2016

Alexandros Fragiskatos in 2019

Alex Smith in 2018

Josh Knight in 2017

Other Links:

The X-Files

Metaphor Percussion

Richard Gipson

“Diabolic Variations” - Raymond Helble

The Palace of Nine Perfections - Eric Ewazen

“The Cry” - Nathan Daughtrey

Nathan Bushey

Shane Mizicko

Jim Widner

Blake Tyson

Ocean’s Eleven trailer

Out to Sea trailer

Field of Dreams trailer

Where There’s Smoke: The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man - William B. Davis

The Linda Lindas

Raves:

The Canadian Percussion Network