JAM (video) with Jim Cathcart

Oct 11, 2009 in Guitars, Intelligent Motivation, Motivation

by Jim Cathcart

Last July I posted this video of 16:38 minutes from a 4 hour Jam Session at the National Speakers Association convention in Phoenix. Since that time I’ve had many occasions to share music and ideas with a variety of colleagues, friends and clients.

The songs included here (being performed by me) are:
Riding Free by Jim Cathcart
The Sounds of Silence from Simon & Garfunkel
Steppin’ Stone by The Monkees
If I were a Carpenter by Tim Hardin
Well Respected Man by the Kinks
Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers
Rocky Mountain High by John Denver

You’ll notice that my audience of about a dozen people tends to grow as the event goes on. That’s particularly noteworthy since this event took place at the end of the 10pm to Midnight Jam Session with a dozen performers. Our little group stayed until 2:10AM!

I’m now incorporating this style of informal, spontaneous music into some of my presentations to blend Stories, Strategies and Skills with the fun of music and interaction, in a sing-along format. Please let me know if you’d like to explore this as a program for your own group.

Earlier this year in Caracas, Venezuela I performed a dozen songs this way in front of 800 business executives during the break in my regular seminar. They gave me a standing ovation for the break! What a treat!!!!

Here are some photos from that event:

Just to validate that I come by this honestly, here are two photos of me and my (then wife-to-be Paula) at the Mountain View Arkansas Music Festival in 1970, plus two photos of Robert Teague and me as “The Harper Brothers”, (our “act” in 1968) in Little Rock. Life is better with music!