Joy in the Summer: alumni UBC Summer Series is a lighthearted, inspiring, three-part podcast that presents a summer of joyfulness and fun as told by UBC alumni; wine, music and geocaching specialists; and stay-in-the-neighborhood athletes, romantics and travelers.  While the series, running from June through September, may be virtual, the adventure, discovery and culinary findings are very real.  Small groups meet in parks to enjoy wine tastings; geo-cachers venture through the North Shore mountains, Mud Bay, Squamish and further afield; virtual runners race from the UBC Vancouver to the UBC Okanagan campus; and, at any time, the glorious and uplifting sounds of music are available on the alumni UBC website. 

In this episode: Traveling with Music, the discovery episode, wraps up the series on a high note -- a dream surprise for five UBC students who sing with the UBC A Cappella.  Superstar voice and performance coach, Tamara Beatty, who coaches for ‘The Voice,’ ‘My Kind of Country,’ ‘I Can See Your Voice’ and ‘Masked Singer’ offers them a private session. Before the big surprise, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Leigh Van Handel contextualizes three pieces of music presented in the Summer Series, while the podcast listener enters virtual rooms full of music: a Venetian sitting room for the Classical music; an NYC jazz club for the jazz and the Chan Center for the UBC A Cappella.