Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

About Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Notice: new episodes are currently on hold. The Happy Hour Harmonica podcast brings profiles of some of the top harmonica players and technicians today. The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com. If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour (https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour?locale.x=en_GB). Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/ (https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/) Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com

Publisher

Neil Warren

Category

music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2020

Latest episode

27 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

150 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Dec 2025

   Toots Thielemans retrospective

   Hermine Duerloo, Laurent Maur and Alexandre Piret join me on episode 150, for a retrospective on the great Toots Thielemans. Toots was born in 1922 to humble beginnings, in Brussels, Belgium, where his parents ran a cafe. His first instrument was an accordion, which he started playing at age three and showed great promise. He took up guitar and the chromatic harmonica around the age of sixteen. He then went on to tour Europe with Benny Goodman in 1950 before moving to the US in 1951 whe...

2. 

   20 Dec 2025

   The Ten Minute Question: part 3

   Episode 149 is the third compilation of the ten minute question answers from episode 112 to episode 148. Not every episode had a ten minute question, as there’s been quite a lot of retrospective episodes in this batch. So there are 27 episodes covered here. I hope you enjoy listening back to this collection as much as I did putting it together. And if you if you missed any of the episodes included then be sure to check them out. I’ll introduce each person before they respond to the ques...

3. 

   6 Dec 2025

   Hank Shreve interview

   Hank Shreve joins me on episode 148. Hank started playing harmonica at age eight, and that has remained his true love despite learning various other instruments. He explains how his drumming background shapes the rhythmic feel of his harmonica playing, and how blues opened the door to everything from Latin influences to funk. Hank reflects on opening for Paul DeLay, working with Curtis Salgado, leading The Hank Shreve Band with his father Bill on bass, and broadening his musical output across...

Who has been a guest on Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Richard Sleigh
• Fabrizio Poggi
• Giles Robson
• Jim Basnight
• John Sebastian

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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