CUEcast is the weekly podcast of YouthCUE.
Released every Tuesday morning at 6AM Central, each episode is packed with information and inspiration for student choir leaders, music educators, ministers, teenage singers, parents of youth choir kids, YouthCUE alumni, YouthCUE donors, and all other interested parties.
Episodes include interviews
with composers, directors, music educators, student choir singers, youth ministers, professional artists, YouthCUE alumni, YouthCUE program participants, and more. Often, musical excerpts are included designed to inspire and inform listeners of new anthem resources.
You may listen to each episode for free here on the website, but it’s much easier to take advantage of the subscription to CUEcast by activating the “Podcast” app (usually purple) on your smartphone or iPad. Here’s how … it will take you less than one minute, and it’s totally free!
Instructions to subscribe to CUEcast
- Find the Podcast app
- Touch the app icon, which will send you inside the app
- Look for “magnifying glass” to find the search feature.
- Search for: CUEcast
- CUEcast logo will appear. It’s cyan-colored.
- Touch CUEcast logo.
- Find “Subscribe” and simply touch the word “Subscribe.”
- That’s it. You’re all set!
- When you have subscribed, the app will automatically drive new episodes to this same place (under the purple Podcast app on your device) to listen to the episodes at your convenience. Episodes will sit and wait for you until you have the chance to listen. Also, the app will allow you to access all past episodes by touching “All Episodes.”
- Select the episode you’d like to hear and enjoy.
Episode 59 – Music as diplomacy
Dr. Carey Cannon recalls his four-year experience singing in the US Army Chorus stationed outside Washington, D.C. Carey relates several experiences serving in the Nation’s Capital post-9-11 and how those experiences are eerily similar to recent events at the Capitol...
Episode 58 – How ministers prescribe music to help calm their flocks
Longtime friends and ministerial colleagues Robert Guffey and Randy Edwards discuss the calming, uniting, and encouraging qualities of music in their congregations today. Whether in Roanoke (Robert) or San Antonio (Randy), both ministers have learned over the decades...
Episode 57 – Allowing music to help us navigate the darkest days
Family counselor and Nashville minister Weslee Hill returns to CUEcast with an episode encouraging choral musicians to lean into our art as we face difficult times. In this interview, Randy discusses with Weslee what happens when we engage the many colors of choral...
Episode 56 – How can we keep from singing?
Emily Current Floyd has been busy during the pandemic. Aside from keeping up with her ongoing and creative programming at Shallowford Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Emily has just completed a great new resource published by Choristers Guild. HOW CAN WE KEEP FROM...
Episode 55 – What are a few of your favorite things?
To begin 2021, Randy provides insights into the power of our “favorite things.” As you might guess, the illustrative material will include “My Favorite Things” from THE SOUND OF MUSIC. But don’t expect this to be an episode of sugar coating, playing the glad game, or...
Episode 54 – Introducing V21, YouthCUE’s Original Virtual Festival
For months -- which feels like years -- student choir directors have been searching high and low for something meaningful we can provide our students to help them feel connected, energized, and engaged in music making and community building. In this episode of...
Episode 53 – Helping our kids handle the fears and frustrations of life in 2020
Family counselor Weslee Edwards Hill is Minister of Congregational Care at the Brentwood United Methodist Church in Nashville. Aside from her critical role in caring for a congregation largely in isolation, Weslee is also mother of three young boys, two of whom are...
Episode 52 – An interview with Pastor Alan Rudnick
Randy and Alan discuss Alan’s involvement in student choir as a teenager and how his experience in this teenage ministry laboratory is today influencing his vocation as a senior pastor. Special attention is given to navigating the treacherous waters of the pandemic as...
Episode 51 – An interview with the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler
Having served as a missionary in New Orleans and later Having served as a missionary in New Orleans and later as Senior Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington D.C. (2003-2014) followed by Riverside Church in New York City (2014-2019), Amy has always been...
Episode 50 – Four students provide personal perspectives on 2020
Randy speaks with four students from across the United States who weigh in on how 2020 has affected their lives and their relationships with their friends. Aside from being a great resource of information for student choir directors, it would be good to have the...
