Broad and High

Prints and Pints, Leslie Odom, Jr., We Amplify Voices

Season 10 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Artists and breweries team up for an annual event that creates collectible posters.

Aired 10/20/2022

Broad and High

Prints and Pints, Leslie Odom, Jr., We Amplify Voices

Season 10 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Artists and breweries team up for an annual event that creates collectible posters.

Eye-catching art and delectable brews combine in an annual event called Prints and Pints, matching artists with breweries, resulting in collectible posters. The multitalented, award-winning performer from Hamilton Leslie Odom, Jr, talks about his impressive career. Listen to one of the latest songs from We Amplify Voices called Lost Souls of Tomorrow.

Aired 10/20/2022

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Season 10 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

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PRODUCTION OF "BROAD & HIGH" IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL, SUPPORTING ARTS, ADVANCING CULTURE AND CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY TO CULTURAL EVENTS, ARTISTS AND CLASSES AT COLUMBUSMAKESART.COM.

>> FROM THESE CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS AND VIEWERS LIKE YOU, THANK YOU.

>>> THIS TIME ON "BROAD & HIGH," WE LEARN ABOUT A POSTER SHOW THAT PAIRS TWO THINGS COLUMBUS MAKES WELL, ART AND BEER.

A MULTITALENTED AWARD WINNING PERFORMER TALKS ABOUT A MOMENT FOR HIM THAT STANDS OUT ABOUT THE REST.

AND WE LISTEN TO ONE OF THE LATEST RELEASES FROM WE AMPLIFY VOICES.

THIS AND MORE RIGHT NOW ON "BROAD & HIGH."

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>>> WELCOME TO "BROAD & HIGH," I'M YOUR HOST, KATE QUICKEL.

WHEN JEFF HINSHAW OPENED UP HIS PRINT SHOP UPRIGHT PRESS HE WAS LOOKING AT A WAY TO GET MORE CONNECTED WITH ARTISTS AND BUSINESSES IN TOWN, HIS IDEA PRINTS AND PINTS.

NOW IN ITS FIFTH YEAR THIS SCREEN PRINTED POSTER SHOW PAIRS GRAPHIC ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS WITH LOCAL BREWERIES TO CREATE ONE OF A KIND WORKS OF ART.

WE WENT BEHIND THE SCENES THIS HAVE POPULAR COMMUNITY EVENT TO SEE HOW SOME OF THIS YEAR'S BEER POSTERS WERE MADE.

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>>> WE'RE HERE AT A PRINT PRESS, INDEPENDENT SCREEN PRINTING SHOP IN COLUMBUS ON THE SOUTH SIDE PREPARING FOR OUR FIFTH YEAR OF PRINTS AND PINTS.

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>> PRINTS AND PINTS IS A SCREEN PRINT POSTER FEST, IT'S A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE DAILY GROWLER AND UPRIGHT PRESS AND THEN WE BRING IN 12 BREWERIES AND 12 LOCAL ARTISTS TO CREATE UNIQUE POSTERS.

>> SO THE ARTISTS TREAT THIS PROJECT KIND OF LIKE A GIG POSTER WHERE THEY HAVE AN IDEA FOR A BEER THAT THE BREWERY MAKES AND THEY WORK WITH THE BREWERY ON WHAT THAT IMAGERY WILL TURN INTO AND I THINK IT'S WORKED OUT REALLY WELL THAT THE BREWERIES HAVE GIVEN A LOT OF ARTISTIC LICENSE TO THE ARTISTS AND THAT'S WHY THE POSTERS HAVE BEEN SO AMAZING.

>> THE POSTERS ARE LIMITED EDITION, THERE'S ONLY 30 AND THEY ARE NUMBERED BY THE ARTISTS, ONE OF 32, SO ON AND SO FORTH AND THAT'S IT.

SO I THINK THAT'S CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO THE EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE EVENT.

>> IT IS JUST A ONE-DAY EVENT EVERY YEAR SO ONLY AVAILABLE IN-PERSON, NO LIKE ONLINE SALES AND IT'S JUST A REALLY SPECIAL EVENT FOR US AND FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE ARTISTS AND THE BREWERIES.

>> ONCE THEY HAD AGREED TO IT, THEN I LET THE ARTISTS CHOOSE WHICH BREWERY THEY WANTED TO WORK WITH.

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>> MY NAME IS DUSTIN BRINKMAN AND I AM WORKING WITH SEVEN SUN BREWERY.

YEAH, FOR PRINTS AND PINTS.

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>> I HAVE A REALLY KIND OF SOFT SPOT IN MY HEART FOR SEVENTH SUN BECAUSE WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE ANYTHING WAS AND I WAS OVERWHELMED BY ONE-WAY STREETS COMING FROM A REALLY SMALL TOWN, SO I LIVED DOWN THE STREET BUT HAD NO IDEA IT WAS THERE AND I STUMBLED UPON T I WOULD GO THERE EVERY NIGHT AFTER THAT.

I LOVED THEIR ATMOSPHERE THAT THEY KIND OF CULTIVATE THERE AND THE DRINKS AND COCKTAILS ARE ALWAYS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

BUT, YEAH, I THINK I JUST REALLY WANTED TO KIND OF IN SOME WAYS GIVE BACK TO THEM, LIKE BY WORKING WITH THEM I WANTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT WAY BECAUSE I HAD SUCH A WARM EXPERIENCE THERE FROM THE GET-GO.

TALKING WITH THE BREWERY IT'S NOT JUST SEVENTH SUN, THEY HAVE THE TWO OTHER BREWERIES, GET AWAY AND ANTIQUES ON HIGH.

I TRIED TO TAKE LITTLE COMP IN ENT TO TAKE THE AIRPLANE FROM THE GET AWAY BECAUSE IT HAS THIS PLANE AND TRAVEL THEME TO IT, TAKING THE SEVENTH SUN CAT, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ASSISTANT MANAGER, THE ANTIQUES ON HIGH VAN AND ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS.

REALLY WANTED TO TRY AND CULMINATE ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS INTO ONE POSTER THAT STILL CENTERS AROUND LIKE THAT SPECIFIC BREWERY, WHICH IS SEVENTH SUN.

YEAH, MY PROCESS IT FEELS LIKE THERE IS A LOT OF STEPS IN IT AND IT TAKES QUITE A BIT OF TIME.

NORMALLY A START OFF WITH LIKE A VERY, VERY GENERALIZED SORT OF GESTURE SKETCH.

THE DIGITAL COLLAGE COMES FROM EITHER PHOTOGRAPHERS I WILL PERSONALLY TAKE OR THINGS I WILL FIND ON THE INTERNET.

FROM THERE I PRINT IT OFF AT SCALE, LIKE THE EXACT SCALE I WANT TO PRINT AND CARVE THAT OUT, TRANSFER THAT ON TO THE LINOLEUM BLOCK THAT'S CUT DOWN TO THAT EXACT SCALE AS WELL SO THAT IS FULLY 18 X 24 LIKE WHAT OUR POSTER IS GOING TO BE AND FROM THERE IT'S JUST SITTING AND THERE IS A PROCESS OF CARVING WHICH USUALLY TAKES QUITE SOME TIME.

THEN I COME IN HERE AND I USE THE PRESSES THAT ARE JUST BEHIND ME AND THEN I WILL PULL THAT FIRST RELEASE PROOF.

ONCE THAT'S DRY I WILL SCAN THAT IN AND THEN DO A SORT OF PHOTO MERGE AND PHOTOSHOP, TRANSFER THAT INTO ILLUSTRATOR FOR LIVE TRACE AND COME BACK TO PHOTOSHOP AND DO ALL MY BRUSH WORK AND TOOLS AND DO ALL THE COLOR LAYERING AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO FOR THE POSTER WHEN WE GO LAYER WISE IS START OFF WITH THIS SUPER INTENSE VERY BRIGHT YELLOW THAT WILL GET DULLED DOWN A LITTLE STUFF.

THIS LAYER IS MEANT TO ONLY PURPOSELY BE USED FOR SHADOWS TO GIVE STUFF SOME DEPTH, THEN RED WILL GO NEXT WITH THE SORT OF BACKGROUND SORT OF TONE THAT LIKE MAKES IT NOT AS JUST FLAT IN THERE, AND THEN THE LAST COLOR WILL BE THAT BLUE THAT KIND OF TRANSFORMS LIKE ALL THAT YELLOW INTO A GREEN.

I THINK BY THE END OF THIS WEEK I WILL BE DONE AND I CAN -- I CAN SEND THE IMAGES TO JEFF TO GET THEM READY FOR PRINTING.

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>> I'M NATASHA WHEELER AND I'M WORKING WITH YELLOW SPRINGS BREWERY.

I WANTED TO WORK WITH THE YELLOW SPRINGS BREWERY BECAUSE I GREW UP IN A NEIGHBORING CITY SO I'M REALLY FAMILIAR WITH THE YELLOW SPRINGS AREA AND IT WAS JUST A PLACE WE VISIT WITH MY FAMILY, AS I GOT OLDER IT WAS JUST LIKE THE PLACE WE WOULD DRIVE TO TO HANG OUT FOR AN AFTERNOON AT THE SHOP AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

THE NATURAL TRAILS AND HIKING AND IT'S JUST ONE OF THE MORE UNIQUE SPOTS IN OHIO.

WHEN I WAS SPARED WITH YELLOW SPRINGS BREWERY THEY ALREADY KNEW THEY WANTED TO HAVE A POSTER FOR A BEER AND THE BEER IS CREATIVE SPACE, IT'S ONE OF THEIR I THINK NEIPAs.

I KIND OF HAD A FEW IDEAS ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT REPRESENT YELLOW SPRINGS.

MY PROCESS FOR CREATING THE PRINT, I USUALLY LIKE TO START WITH JUST A MESSY, SKETCHY THUMBNAIL TO TRY TO GET OUT THE IDEA AND HOW I KIND OF WANT THE EYE TO MOVE THROUGHOUT THE PIECE AND THEN ONCE I KIND OF ESTABLISH THAT FLOW I LIKE TO BRING THE SKETCH TO THE iPAD.

I WANTED KIND OF A LOOSE FREE HAND APPROACH TO IT, SO WITH THE iPAD I COULD REALLY GET IN THERE AND JUST TOUCH UP ALL THOSE DETAILS, AND THEN ONCE I KIND OF HAVE THAT REALLY NICE REFINED SKETCH, I WILL BRING IT TO THE COMPUTER AND I WILL USE A PROGRAM LIKE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR TO ACTUALLY SEPARATE OUT THE COLORS INTO LAYERS AND REALLY REFINE ANYTHING THAT DIDN'T TRANSLATE WELL.

ONE OF THE IDEAS WAS REPRESENTING THIS IDEA OF A FREE SPIRIT, SO I WANTED TO USE KIND OF LIKE FLOWING LINES BECAUSE YOU THINK BEER, IT FLOWS, IDEAS FLOW, TO THEN HELP TIE ALL THESE DIFFERENT SCENES TOGETHER.

A LOT OF OUTDOOR ELEMENTS BECAUSE THE BREWERY ITSELF IS KIND OF A HUB FOR OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS.

HIKING OBVIOUSLY IS A BIG ONE, CYCLING, THE BUREAU ITSELF IS POSITIONED RIGHT ON A BIKE PATH, IT'S GOT SOME REPELLING HIDDEN IN THERE, THERE'S SKATEBOARDING, KAYAKING, THERE IS A RIVER, GOT SOMEBODY BIRD WATCHING, BUTTERFLIES, FLOWERS, JUST MORE NATURAL ELEMENTS THAT YOU MIGHT SEE THERE.

>> I WOULD KIND OF SAY JEFF WAS LIKE A MASTER PRINTER.

I'M ALWAYS REALLY PLEASED AND SURPRISED WHEN I SEE LIKE THE ACTUAL PRINT, IT'S REALLY COOL.

THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THAT INK ON PAPER AND LIKE THE MATTE QUALITY TO IT ALL WHEN YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING AT IT THROUGH LIKE AN ILLUMINATED COMPUTER SCREEN, IT'S JUST SO COOL TO SEE THOSE COLORS AND IT COME TOGETHER.

>> WHAT I SEE FROM PEOPLE WHO COME TO THE EVENT AND BUY THE POSTERS IS KIND OF A GENERAL EXCITEMENT.

I THINK IT SPEAKS TO PEOPLE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BREWERIES THEMSELVES AND THE SCENE.

>> THIS IS A BIG BEER CITY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OVER 60 BREWERIES IN THIS CITY SO IT'S AN IMPORTANT THICK THING TO PEOPLE.

>> PEOPLE LOVE BEER AND PEOPLE LIKE ART.

IT'S NICE WHEN IT COMES TOGETHER LIKE THAT.

>> I THINK IT MAKES ARTWORK APPROACHABLE.

IT'S VERY AFFORDABLE.

>> TO BE ABLE TO PUT A POSTER BY A LOCAL BUSINESS BY A LOCAL ARTIST ON YOUR WALL, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S PRETTY UNIQUE.

>> A LOT OF THE ARTISTS THAT HAVE DONE THIS HAVE GONE ON TO BE KIND OF MAINSTAYS AT THAT BREWERY, DESIGNING CANS, T-SHIRTS.

>> BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN PRINTS AND PINTS HAS OPENED UP MY CIRCLE OF ARTISTS AND ENVIRONMENTS AND THINGS TO WORK WITH, AND I THINK BEING ABLE TO BRING IN THOSE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ARTISTS WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY AND SEE HOW EVERYONE IS TAKING ON THESE DESIGNS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY BROADENS THAT HORIZON TO WHAT POSTER PRINTING IT AND GRAPHIC WORK AND IMAGERY CAN BE THROUGH DIFFERENT SORT OF LENSES.

>> IF YOU ARE INTO THE LOCAL CRAFT BEER SCENE IN COLUMBUS, I DEFINITELY THINK IT'S AN EVENT WORTH CHECKING OUT.

>> AGAIN, JUST LIKE UNIQUELY POSITIVE AND GOOD VIBES ABOUND.

>> IT'S THE MOST RELAXED SORT OF EVENT ART EXHIBITION I HAVE BEEN TO IN QUITE SOME TIME.

>> LOOKING FOR VOYEURS.

>> FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FUTURE EDITIONS OF PRINTS AND PINTS AND TO SEE MORE SCREEN PRINTING DONE BY JEFF AND HIS TEAM VISIT UPRIGHTPRESS.COM.

>>> ARTIST LESLIE OWE DAM JUNIOR IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH A CAREER THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

IN OUR NEXT STORY HE TALKS ABOUT HIS LIFE WORK HE PERFORMS ON STAGE, RECORDS ALBUMS AND IN 2018 ADDED THE TITLE OF AUTHOR TO HIS RESUM .

>> LESLIE IS AN ACTOR WITH A VOICE MEANT FOR A BROADWAY STAGE.

>> BROADWAY MUSIC COVERS DIFFERENT STYLES.

I MADE MY DEBUT IN A SHOW CALLED "RENT" WHICH IN A LOT OF WAYS, YOU KNOW, REMINDS ME OF THE "HAMILTON" PHENOMENON IN THAT IT WAS KIND OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC BEING MADE TO WORK IN THIS NEW FORM, YOU KNOW, IN THIS BROADWAY STORY TELLING FORM.

IT SOUNDED LIKE MUSIC OFF OF THE RADIO PUT ON STAGE AND "HAMILTON" OF COURSE DOES THAT WITH HIP HOP AND R & B.

>> I WAS VERY NERVOUS THE FIRST -- YOU KNOW, THOSE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF "HAMILTON" BECAUSE I CARED ABOUT IT SO MUCH, I CARED ABOUT THE PIECE SO MUCH.

I TRIED TO INTRODUCE THE SHOW IN THE WAY THAT I WANTED YOU TO RECEIVE IT, YOU KNOW?

I THOUGHT THE MATERIAL WAS JUST SO FRESH AND EXCITING AND VITAL AND FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT STUFF.

SO I JUST WANTED -- I JUST WANTED "HAMILTON" TO HAVE ITS BEST FOOT FORWARD AS WE PUT IT IN FRONT OF YOU.

YOU KNOW, "HAMILTON" IS FOR ME, YOU KNOW, AN EXAMPLE -- I HAD BEEN PREPARING FOR A MOMENT LIKE THAT FOR MY WHOLE LIFE.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WOULD EVER COME.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF I WOULD EVER GET THE CHANCE TO -- TO SHOW WHAT I COULD DO ON THE BIG STAGE, BUT IT CAME.

THE MOST SURPRISING THING FOR ME, I REMEMBER AFTER MY FIRST COUPLE PERFORMANCES I WAS LIKE, OH, WOW.

NOTHING IS DIFFERENT.

WHAT I MEAN S YOU KNOW, YOU THINK WHEN YOU GET A BROADWAY SHOW YOU CAN THINK -- I THOUGHT THAT, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE PIXIE DUST IS SPRINKLED ON YOU OR SOMETHING AT THE STAGE DOOR ON YOUR WAY IN AND YOU SUDDENLY BECOME A DIFFERENT PERFORMER THAN YOU EVER WERE, BUT YOU'RE NOT.

YOU KNOW, THE SAME INTEGRITY, THE SAME FEARLESS HEART AND, YOU KNOW, COURAGE THAT YOU DEVELOP IN YOUR HOMETOWN AND THE SAME BIG WATT SMILE THAT YOU HAVE IN WISCONSIN OR -- YOU BRING THAT WITH YOU TO THE BROADWAY STAGE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE.

SO IT WAS JUST THIS WONDERFUL REALIZATION OF IT DOESN'T MATTER THE STAGE.

THE STAGE IS A GREAT HONOR.

THE STAGES THAT I GOT TO PERFORM ON ARE A GREAT HONOR TO ME, BUT I WOULD BE PERFORMING IN THE SAME EXACT WAY WHETHER IT'S AT THE WHITE HOUSE OR YOUR MOM'S HOUSE.

>> EVEN WITH THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS OF "HAMILTON" AND WINNING THE TONY AWARD, THERE IS ONE MOMENT FOR LESLIE ODOM JR. THAT STANDS OUT ABOVE ALL THE REST.

>> THE WHITE HOUSE.

A PRIVATE AUDIENCE WITH BARACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE OBAMA, TO BE INVITED, I MEAN, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GET 40 MINUTES OF THIS PERSON'S ATTENTION?

40 MINUTES OF HIS UNDIVIDED -- AND HER -- UNDIVIDED ATTENTION, YOU KNOW.

THE FACT THAT YOU MAY BE CAN LEAVE AN IMPRESSION THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S HOW YOU CAN EFFECT CHANGE, YOU KNOW, IN SMALL WAYS.

IT WAS -- AND I WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, WE -- AS A COMPANY WE REALLY DID BRING THE SAME INTEGRITY ANYWHERE WE WENT.

I MEAN THIS IN THAT WE PERFORMED LIKE WE WERE AT THE WHITE HOUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY ON BROADWAY, YOU KNOW.

THE ONLY THING THAT MADE IT DIFFERENT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND SO YOU USED TO GET THOSE NERVES AND STUFF OUT OF THE WAY SO YOU CAN DO YOUR JOB THE WAY YOU ALWAYS DO IT.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

BUT, YEAH, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN SAY SOMETHING THIS AFTERNOON THAT LODGES SOMEWHERE IN HIS HEART, IN HIS SPIRIT THAT CHANGES A CONVERSATION THAT HE HAS, THAT HE REMEMBERS, YOU KNOW, TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, YOU KNOW KNOW, THAT WAS AN AWESOME MOMENT.

THE BEST.

THE HEIGHT OF THE WHOLE THING, THE BEST.

THE BEST.

>> SINCE LEAVING "HAMILTON" LESLIE ODOM JR. HAS RECORDED TWO ALBUMS AND SOME FANS MAY BE SURPRISED AT HIS PERSONAL MUSICAL STYLE.

>> PART OF MY TRAINING AS A SINGER AND AN ACTOR WAS TO BE ABLE TO CREDIBLY GET OVER, YOU KNOW -- TO GET DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSIC OVER THE FOOT LIGHTS.

SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE FIND OUT THAT I RECORDED JAZZ ALBUMS THEY ARE LIKE, OH, NOT HIP HOP ALBUMS?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW ME FROM "HAMILTON."

IN CHOOSING THE TYPE OF MUSIC I WANTED TO RECORD WE EXPLORED A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSIC THAT I GREW UP SINGING, WE EXPLORED R & B, WE EXPLORED POP AND WE EXPLORED JAZZ.

BROADWAY IS ALWAYS A NICE FIT FOR JAZZ, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE STANDARDS, A LOT OF THE JAZZ STANDARDS CAME FROM BROADWAY SHOWS AND BROADWAY COMPOSERS, "HELLO, DOLLY" AND THE REST.

IT'S A GOOD FIT.

WE SAID WE WANTED TO MAKE THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT NAT KING COLE MIGHT MAKE TODAY.

IN MY LIVE SHOW SOMETIMES I SAY WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT BUT IT GOT US THE MONEY.

WHAT I MEAN WAS WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT, BUT THAT WAS THE BAR.

I WAS PROBABLY 13, 12, 13 WHEN I REALLY HEARD THAT VOICE.

IT'S A UBIQUITOUS VOICE SO I HEARD IT MY WHOLE LIFE.

WHEN I REALLY HEARD WHAT HE WAS DOING AND SAW WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE AND IT JUST LEFT SUCH AN IMPRESSION OF GRACE AND CLASS.

MY BAR BECAME, YOU KNOW, I REALLY WAS THINKING ABOUT THOSE -- THOSE PERFORMANCES THAT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME, YOU KNOW, THOSE PERFORMANCES THAT HAVE STAYED WITH ME FOR 20 PLUS YEARS.

AND SO I WANTED TO -- THAT WAS MY BAR.

WHETHER I HIT IT OR NOT, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T KNOW, BUT THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO, TRYING TO MAKE A PERFORMANCE THAT WOULD SEAR INTO PEOPLE'S BRAINS LIKE THAT.

SO WE WANTED TO MAKE MUSIC THAT WAS AS -- YOU KNOW, THAT HAD THE INTEGRITY AND THE GRACE AND THE STYLE THAT NAT MIGHT MAKE TODAY.

WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THROW BACKS SO MUCH, WE WANTED TO DO IT FOR TODAY.

>> LESLIE ODOM JR. HAS ALSO WRITTEN HIS FIRST BOOK TITLED "FAILING UP: HOW TO TAKE RISKS, AIM HIGHER AND NEVER STOP LEARNING."

HE HOPES TO INSPIRE READERS OF ALL AGES WITH LESSONS FROM HIS EXPERIENCES SO FAR.

>> I THINK INTENTION TAKES YOU A LONG WAY.

WHAT I WANT -- WHAT KEPT ME GOING WAS THE FACT THAT I BELIEVED THAT ART COULD BE A POWERFUL FORCE FOR CHANGE.

IF YOU ARE PURSUING SOMETHING WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART, IF YOU ARE GOING AFTER A DREAM AND IT'S TRIPPING YOU UP AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU ARE FALLING ON YOUR FACE, THAT YOU SHOULD KEEP GOING AND REALLY THE MAJOR GROWTH IN MY -- IN MY LIFE, IN MY CREATIVE LIFE, IN MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE, THAT DID NOT START UNTIL I GAVE MYSELF THE PERMISSION TO FAIL.

I GAVE MYSELF THE PERMISSION NOT TO GET IT EXACTLY RIGHT AND IF I WAS TRYING MY VERY BEST, EVEN IF I FAILED, IT WAS ALL RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, ALL THE GOOD STUFF IN MY LIFE HAPPENED WHEN I GAVE MYSELF THE PERMISSION TO FAIL.

THE BEST STUFF.

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>>> TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS AMAZING ARTIST, CHECK OUT LESLIEODOMJUNIOR.COM.

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>>> NEXT, WE HAVE ONE OF THE LATEST RELEASES FROM WE AMPLIFY VOICES CALLED "LOST SOULS OF TOMORROW."

THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN WE THE CHANGE PROGRAM AT WEST MOORE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

IT'S AN ANTHEM FOR GETTING OUR WORLD BACK ON TRACK.

LET'S TAKE A LISTEN.

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GOT TO FACE THE FACT !

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NO MORE GOING BACK !

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GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS !

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NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS !

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NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS !

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NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS !

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NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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GOT TO FACE THE FACTS NO MORE GOING BACK !

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THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS PATH GOT TO GET IT BACK ON TRACK !

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>>> TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM CHECK OUT WEAMPLIFYVOICES.ORG.

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>>> WELL, THAT'S OUR SHOW.

REMEMBER YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR STORIES ONLINE AT WOSU.ORG AS WELL AS ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

FOR ALL OF US HERE AT WOSU I'M KATE QUICKEL.

THANKS FOR WATCHING.

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NOW OUR TIME IS DONE !

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MOVE ALONG FOR EVERYONE !

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THE MIND WILL LET YOU WAY !

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THE MIND IS ONLY RIGHT NOW !

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MOVE ALONG !

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MOVE ALONG !

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MOVE ALONG !

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MOVE ALONG !

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MOVE ALONG !

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MOVE ALONG !

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>>> PRODUCTION OF "BROAD & HIGH" IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL, SUPPORTING ARTS, ADVANCING CULTURE AND CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY TO ARTISTS, EVENTS AND CLASSES AT COLUMBUSMAKESART.COM.

Support for PBS provided by:

Broad and High is a local public television program presented by WOSU

Production of Broad & High is funded in part by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Columbus State Hospitality Management Program and viewers like you!