Ted Marotta is the drummer in ‘Doctor Lo et Le Band’ https://open.spotify.com/album/25CVNxEg6nCKWaoTyQhcJ3?si=H44qBvaRSeSxCI7xfwCx9A&dl_branch=1 since June 18 and they are already actively touring! Also a music engineer, a podcaster https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-little-bit-famous-with-ted-marotta/id1569231145 , and a father, he is a New York native and a travelling musician at heart. He began his passion project, a podcast titled ‘A Little Bit Famous,’ in June 2021. He has had some incredible guests, including Grammy award winners. Ted began drum lessons at 8-years-old and developed his creative career dreams then. Still, the combination of a fascination with history and some social career conditioning had him choosing college instead. He continued to play in a garage band, though, exercising his creative muscles.
In time, he left college and embraced band life full-time. His five-piece band ‘Ominous Seapods’ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-ominous-seapods-mn0000888844/biography toured nationally for a decade. In their heyday, they were playing upwards of 300 shows a year and had developed a diehard following. With the band members reaching their early 30s, the band dissembled, and Ted returned to his love of learning about history. After he achieved his goal of becoming a Historian with a Ph.D. in American History, Ted became a professor. Over the years, he found that students were not giving the same engagement and energy that had once fed his appetite for teaching.
Coinciding, his marriage was faltering. The marriage ended, and grief of not being around his children all the time set in. He began drinking and also fell in love with a co-worker who was a heavy drinker. Soon he hit a figurative brick wall. Single, he found sobriety with the assistance of a four-month rehab program. A few weeks after he returned, his daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He believes there were cosmic forces at work that connect the timing of his sobriety with the diagnosis. He now has copious amounts of hope, is thankful for his coping skills, and lives with gratitude daily.
Host: RhiannonBarry https://www.facebook.com/groups/403290106358914/ https://www.instagram.com/rhiannonbarryart/?hl=en is a self-taught visual artist born in St. Catharines, Ontario. She spent a large majority of her childhood and teen years on the North Shore of Lake Superior. recently, she showed in the City of St. Catharine’s annual juried art exhibit. In solidarity with indigenous cultures, she created a piece featuring hope for the future. You can currently find a collection of her pieces hanging in The Hub Art Gallery on Queen Street in Niagara Falls, ON. She is currently pursuing a BA in Psychology counselling and art therapy. She focuses on providing calming and conscious retreat and activity experiences and shares online painting and creating art therapies. Rhiannon is the coordinator of the popular online program 'Creative Conversations Pen Pals Project, 'Gentle Painting' and 'Artists' Path Finder Series' and is running in-person day and week art and wellness retreats. www.bewhimsiartloft.ca
Special Guest Co-host: Adele Campbell is a micro-realist painter currently creating a butterfly wing series. She offers wellbeing support and is a program writer and co-coordinator of the art and wellness retreats with Rhiannon.https://www.hadelecampbell.com/
Musician: The intro music to this podcast was played on the Rav vast drum by Carly Dalton. Check out her art and music on her work on Instagram; at eaarthwalker or on her Etsy shop page at Earthwalker Cards. Thanks for listening!
