Steve Rowland: Private Session (60 mins)

Steve Rowland (he/him) has spent a career using music, theater, and art as windows to explore issues in American history, society, race relations, human creativity, spirituality, aesthetic beauty, the nature of change, and human possibility. Rowland has won nearly every major award in broadcasting including 2 Peabody Awards, The Prix Italia, The CPB, & The Ohio State Award, and was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His work is in the permanent collections of The Library of Congress and The Museum of Television and Radio. His work has been heard on over 700 radio stations in the US and on networks in Europe, Australia, and South Africa. The founder of a new non-profit called “Shakespeare Central” Rowland possesses a commitment to multiple forms of expression. He is, most notably, an audio master having interviewed hundreds of musicians including Bob Marley, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Stephen Sondheim, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlos Santana, Marin Alsop, Questlove, Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and many, many others.