Episode 9: Gideon Irving

In this episode of “Now What?” you’ll hear from Gideon Irving who travels around the world performing his show in peoples’ living rooms. It’s a mix of song, magic and stories that Stephen Sondheim has called eccentric and exhilarating. In New York Gideon used roller blades to get to his shows … shlepping his harmonium, an Indian style shruti box and a musical saw in a shopping cart. He spent 4 months in New Zealand going from home to home on a bicycle. And he’s planning to spend a year on horseback, riding through what used to be called the Wild West, stopping at homes along the way. Did you know there are still horse motels? Gideon and I had a lot of laughs making up songs and talking about the true meaning of the word adventure.