Mexico-based percussionist, educator, and entrepreneur Gabriela Ordoñez Villalobos returns to discuss the end of her orchestral tenure and heading to UNLV for her master’s degree, improving her English speaking, teaching steel band and rock music history, returning to her studies later in her career, and freelancing in the Las Vegas area (02:10), staying at UNLV for her doctorate, her dissertation research on playing Flamenco music on marimba, and her post-doctorate career working in Las Vegas as an arts administrator prior to moving back to Mexico (23:30), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on her experiences as a woman in the percussion field, making clothing decisions, the Las Vegas Raiders, The Mexican National Soccer team and the recent World Cup, playing for actual lions, and Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti album (48:15).

Finishing with a Rave on Peter Wolf’s memoir Waiting on the Moon and Wolf’s appearance on the Marc Maron WTF podcast in 2025 (01:26:45).

Gabriela Ordoñez Villalobos links:

Part 1 with Gabriela Ordoñez Villalobos

Gabriela’s Flamenco Music Dissertation

Gabriela’s Instagram Feed

Pete's Percussion Podcast