Exploring Washington State
Hosted by [Host Name] and Scott · Explore Washington State -Scott Cowan
4.8from 65 ratings
- 352
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 65
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Exploring Washington State
What if you could sit down at your favorite coffee shop with the most interesting people in Washington State? Every episode does exactly that. Host Scott Cowan has unhurried conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, historians, and makers—people doing fascinating work across the state. These 60-minute episodes feel less like interviews and more like catching up with a friend who has great stories to tell. No scripts. No time limits. Just curiosity and good conversation. 340+ episodes and counting. There is always more to explore.
- Publisher
- Explore Washington State -Scott Cowan
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 352 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Voluntold: How Brian Alley Ended Up Running a Folk Festival in Winthrop
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
He Has One Roll of Film Left. John Shephard's Panoramic Washington
14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Not a Bog, a Fen: Inside the $1.5 Million Save of Bonaparte Meadows
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Voluntold: How Brian Alley Ended Up Running a Folk Festival in Winthrop
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Sorry, film festival. Go. don't want to denigrate the art um i think everybody would have opinions on that i you know i jumped in late last year the first year for this festival um having transformed it from what was called cider grass into now the winthrop folk and roots fest um you know i I think I didn't even start reaching out to artists until the early spring and that was far too late. And so I, you know, we, we started kind of more in like the late winter and now I'm like, well, actually some of the artists that I really love that I would love to have next year, like I should have already contacted them or will be like by the time this festival ends, you know, there's all sorts of strategy involved in terms of, especially being up here sort of in the hinterlands, like, yeah, we're really far away. […]
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- Brian Alley
- John Shephard
- Kate Miller
- Kelsey Lang
- Brooks Smothers
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 44 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 21 ratings
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