Welcome to VoiceMap’s newsletter, Senses of Direction, where we share stories from around the world that spark curiosity and stimulate your senses.
This month, we start with a mountain home in Tennessee that brings people from Kansas to Kenya together.
We also hear about the nineteen-year-old Provincetown dishwasher who became the most beloved traveller of his generation, and follow music to the places it came from: Beethoven’s Bonn, the Minneapolis club with a late-night entertainment exemption for the city’s favourite musician, and the home of the American folk opera, featuring a performance of Summertime by tour publisher Phil Biedron’s wife.
Continue reading Dolly’s Mountain Home, Bourdain’s origin story, and music’s links to places from Beethoven to Britpop