The roller-coaster music career of JankaNabay; Danielle Ariano, author of the memoir, Getting Over the Rainbow, on coming out to her family; and Matt Stockwell shows off his original tabletop game, Charm City Blues
Sierra Leonean musician Janka Nabay lists his influences as follows: “Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, and God.” This may seem like an odd triumvirate, but it starts to make sense when you hear his music. The melodies and rhythms are steeped in spiritual tradition, and they’re irresistibly danceable. Janka lives here in the US now. He splits his time between New York and DC, and he’s been recruiting American band-mates to join him as he carries on the torch of his musical heritage. Producer Aaron Henkin has the story.
In just 92 compact and crisply written pages, Danielle Ariano covers a lot of territory. Her forthcoming memoir is titled, Getting Over the Rainbow. It begins with her reluctantly accepting her sexuality, and it ends with her marrying the love of her life. In between point A and point B was, for Ariano, the daunting and unnerving prospect of coming out. She writes about the experience with honesty and candor, and she joins us to read from her reflections.
What makes a good board game? How tough should it be to win? And what kind of story gets created along the way? These are all questions that Matt Stockwell has thought about carefully for the past three years. That’s how long he’s been developing his tabletop cooperative detective game, Charm City Blues. Matt is in this studio this week with The Signal’s Aaron Henkin to show us how it works.
