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Dr. Beth McGinnis and Dr. Brian Viliunas talk about the Magic City Clarinet Festival, the Samford University Orchestra, environmentally friendly clarinets, practicing and performing music, and more. Dr. Viliunas and Laurie Middaugh play the third movement of Evan Mack's Clarinet Sonata.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with Chloe Smith about music created in response to the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Photo by Adam Jones, Wikimedia Commons.

Dr. Beth McGinnis continues her conversation with Chloe Smith about Birmingham jazz musicians during the Civil Rights era.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with Chloe Smith, who wrote a Yale University master's thesis on Birmingham musicians and the Civil Rights era.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with Kunal Tiwari, a euphonium student at Indiana University and formerly a member of the Mutton Chops Brass Band. Kunal tells about Hindu devotional songs, Bollywood movies, and the magic of making music with other people.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with members of the Mutton Chops Brass Band about professionalism, friendship, and having fun.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with Walker Burroughs after his tour with Bobby Bones. They discover a surprising connection, and Walker sings "Overjoyed" by Stevie Wonder.

Dr. Beth McGinnis interviewed Walker Burroughs in 2019, just after he made it to the top eight in that year's season of American Idol.

Dr. Beth McGinnis talks with Dr. Demondrae Thurman about the struggle of the African-American male, finding your unique voice as a musician, and the Demondrae euphonium mouthpiece.

In Season 2 of "Hear in Alabama," Dr. Beth McGinnis interviews some of the musicians who put the magic in the Magic City.

Dr. Beth McGinnis and her students at Samford University interview two of the band directors and one of the school principals in Perry County, Alabama about the Perry County Band Partnership.

Dr. Beth McGinnis interviews Mrs. Frances Ford and Dr. Pilar Murphy about the music, history, and people of Provewell Baptist Church in Sprott, Alabama.

Dr. Beth McGinnis speaks with Lloyd Bricken, a Birmingham-based scholar, actor, and musician who partnered with Brazilian scholars and performers to create Crossroads, an exploration of African diasporic music and poetry from Alabama and Brazil.

Dr. Beth McGinnis interviews Lloyd Bricken, co-director of The Great Crossroads Project, a group that explored and performed African diasporic poetry and music from Alabama and Brazil.

In Season One of Hear in Alabama, Dr. Beth McGinnis explores the rich musical traditions of Perry County: African diasporic music from Alabama and Brazil, the music of Provewell Baptist Church in Sprott, and the marching bands of Francis Marion School in Marion and Robert C. Hatch School in Uniontown. Coming September 2020.