Percussionist and Freelancer Mackenna Tolfa stops by to talk about her long run with the Blue Man Group, getting the job and the physical and acting demands of the role, the daily schedule, and cooking on tour (02:10), growing up in Green Bay (WI), surrounded by music at an early age, her extensive piano and percussion background, and her fondness for the composer Sergei Rachmaninov (30:50), her undergrad years at the University of Minnesota and studying with Fernando Meza (47:30), her post-undergrad years, the Blue Man Group auditions, the importance of social media for her success, and her Broadway gigs and the Dust Bowl Radio Hour (59:25), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on mental health in school programs, social media, thrifting, traveling, great books and music, her love of sports, and the importance of the music of AURORA (01:14:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2000 film Miss Congeniality (01:49:30).
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Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:
Other Links:
“Prelude in G minor” - Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 - Sergei Rachmaninov
Concerto in F - George Gershwin
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
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