The Camp Danny Show: Recent Episodes
Dan Nichols
The Camp Danny show is about Jewish camp, songleading, and Jewish Music. It's a fun show with serious conversations about the powerful experiences we have at camp.
Dan interviews Kutz Camp Songleaders- Jacob Spike Kraus and Ryan Leszner. The guys discuss the work, what they've learned and how they've been transformed by camp. Special guests include Trevor Mann with the world's highest falsetto and Danny Wender who gives Dan "the talk" about letting go and embracing the awkward.
Episode 2: The Father's Day Edition recorded at Goldman Union Camp Institute. Dan visits with GUCI director, Rabbi Mark Covitz and first session faculty dean Rabbi Michael Moskowitz. Dan and the guys discuss the meaning of fatherhood, making memories at camp and their favorite camp jams.
Dan invites Doug Passon, director of the documentary film, Road to Eden, into the studio for a heart to heart conversation about what it meant to make a Jewish film.
Dan welcomes friend and fellow Jewish musician, Zach Singer from Los Angeles, CA. Zach does his best "Inside The Actors Studio" impersonation of James Lipton and get Dan out of sorts... but in a good way.
Dan shares his vision for what the podcast will become. Dan tells a story about a song that changed his life. Finally, Dan welcomes his parents to the show to tell their story of how they became a Jewish family.