David Patush simply wrapped up his first yr instructing music and band courses for the Unalaska college district. Patush takes his cues from his hometown Chicago blues scene, old style R&B and names like Sonny Rollins and Dinah Washington. He plans to return to the district subsequent yr.
On this episode of “Island Interviews,” Patush discusses how the recorder benefitted him as a blossoming musician, the passion of his classroom “Minions” and why he feels he received the lottery by touchdown a instructing job in Unalaska.
This interview is the fifth and closing in a collection of instructor profiles centered on these new or returning to the college system.
This interview initially aired on KUCB on June 6, 2024.