January 11, 2021
Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with Orly Yadin, executive director of the Vermont International Film Festival.
January 4, 2021
Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with Alex Crothers, founder and co-owner of Higher Ground Music.
December 28, 2020
Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with Natalie Neuert, director of the UVM Lane Series.
December 14, 2020
Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with pianist/composer/bandleader/educator Marcus Roberts in advance of the premiere of his solo piano virtual show, playing on the Flynn website December 20-31.
December 1, 2020
In the new installment of Flynn Chats, Artistic Director Steve MacQueen talks with Catamount Arts Executive Director Jody Fried about their response to the pandemic and bringing the arts directly to communities.
October 17, 2020
Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with comedian/performance artist/politician Kristina Wong before she performs her live Zoom show Kristina Wong for Public Office on October 20, 2020 at 7 pm.
June 11, 2020
Flynn Center Artistic Director Steve MacQueen talks pianist Marcus Roberts as part of the 2020 Burlington ReDiscover Jazz Festival—11 days of jazz in partnership with Vermont PBS, Vermont Public Radio, and Burlington area restaurants. Roberts can alternate from a rhythm-led exploration of uncharted soundscapes to sunny funk propelled by his piano. Roberts has received numerous commissioning awards, including ones from Jazz at Lincoln Center, Chamber Music America, and ASCAP. In 2014 Roberts received an honorary doctorate from the Julliard School.
June 10, 2020
Flynn Center Artistic Director Steve MacQueen talks with trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and pianist Christine Jensen as part of the 2020 Burlington ReDiscover Jazz Festival—11 days of jazz in partnership with Vermont PBS, Vermont Public Radio, and Burlington area restaurants. Ingrid's trumpet not only extends her voice, but transforms it, opening doors to new means of speech, improvisation, and collaboration. Nominated twice for Canada’s Juno award, Jensen won in 1995 for her album Vernal Fields.
June 8, 2020
Flynn Center Artistic Director Steve MacQueen talks with bassist Christian McBride as part of the 2020 Burlington ReDiscover Jazz Festival—11 days of jazz in partnership with Vermont PBS, Vermont Public Radio, and Burlington area restaurants. The Grammy-winning bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator has performed on over 300 albums and led a variety of brilliant ensembles, in addition to collaborations with Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Pat Metheny, and many others.
June 4, 2020
In this episode, Steve MacQueen talks with former Flynn Executive Director and sitting Vermont State Representative (South Burlington) John Killacky.
May 28, 2020
This week, Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with Miami-based dancer-educator Adele Myers to get her take on how the pandemic will reshape the arts world and her approach to teaching and creating.
May 19, 2020
This week, Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen and jazz trumpeter and UVM educator Ray Vega dig into the state of the arts right now. They touch on Ray's youth in the Bronx, the work he's done to inject Latin jazz in the music scene of Vermont, and his perspective on the immense challenges the pandemic is creating for performing and teaching artists.
May 11, 2020
In the second part of this two-part interview, Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen and Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) discuss the challenges and opportunities of the current moment: seeking out new ways to think about art, space, and communication during the pandemic. And Daniel caps off the chat with an original poem and some of his unique violin improvisations.
May 4, 2020
In the first of a two-part chat, Flynn Artistic Director Steve MaQueen talks with violinist-composer-educator-entrepreneur-activist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) about his time in Vermont and his experience as artist-in-residence at the Flynn, the VSO, and UVM's Lane Series.
April 27, 2020
In this episode, Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen chats with Cathy Edwards, executive director of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
April 20, 2020
This week, Flynn Artistic Director Steve MacQueen sits down with dancer-choreographer-educator Christal Brown.