{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Piano Girl Podcast: Varmint on the Roof","description":"Man (and music) versus nature. A bass player and a pianist take on a German weasel.   Robin Meloy Goldsby, host of The Piano Girl Podcast,reveals the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business side of the Steinway. A pianist in lounges and lobbies around the world, Goldsby tells her stories by connecting people she has met with places she has played. Along the way she discovers the human side, for better or worse, of her audiences\u2014mobsters and moguls, the down-and-out and downright scary, and ordinary people dealing with life in extraordinary ways. Her stories deliver insights into the art and craft of piano playing\u2014and inspiring lessons in life\u2014as she pursues her dreams on her own terms. Robin Meloy Goldsby is the author of Piano Girl; Waltz of the Asparagus People; Rhythm; and Manhattan Road Trip.  She has appeared on National Public Radio\u2019s All Things Considered and NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland. Robin is a Grammy-nominated lyricist. She is a Steinway Artist and cultural ambassador with artistic ties to both Europe and the USA; her newest solo piano album, Home and Away, launched at Buckingham Palace in November, 2017, at a gala hosted by HRH, the Prince of Wales, in honor of In Kind Direct, an organization that encourages corporate giving for social good. Robin currently performs plays about 150 live piano gigs a year at Excelsior Hotel Ernst in Cologne, Germany, and tours internationally with her popular concert\/reading program.  "Goldsby has a wicked sense of humor and a keen eye for the absurd. Bighearted, funny, truly eye-opening memoir." Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Imagine Carrie from Sex and the Cityplaying the Marriott." Daryl Sherman, cabaret and jazz artist \u201cGoldsby\u2019s tales are often laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes poignant, and always abundantly human.\u201d Kathy Parsons, Mainly Piano \u201cRobin Meloy Goldsby is a great storyteller. You\u2019ll feel as if you\u2019re sitting beside her on the piano bench, observing all the people she recalls with such intimacy and personal warmth.\u201d Barbara Cloud, Pittsburgh Post Gazette \u201cBe it a ballad or an up tune, this plucky lucky pianist arranges her memoir medley for us and plays it in the key of life.\u201d Cheryl Hardwick, Saturday Night Live musical director, 1987-2000 \u201cGoldsby\u2019s wide-ranging stories possess a low-key, party-girl sense of humor. Exuberant, keen, and at times very funny.\u201d Adam Bregman, Seattle Weekly www.goldsby.de ","author_name":"The Piano Girl Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/pianogirlpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"