Soonish Celebrates Launch Day at the PRX Podcast Garage

Friend and supporters of Soonish came out in force to help celebrate the release of the Soonish pilot episode last Friday, January 13, 2017. Slide show below!

The party featured a live performance of sections of the pilot by yours truly, along with a fantastic spread of food prepared by my wonderful mom, Patricia Bates Roush. Folks from all over the Boston podcasting, media, and university communities attended, including old friends from Xconomy, MIT, and the Boston Globe.

The kind folks at PRX let us hold the event at the PRX Podcast Garage in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, just across the Charles River from the Harvard campus. The Podcast Garage is a new recording studio and educational hub dedicated to promoting audio storytelling. I've attended numerous events there since they opened last August, and it's a fantastic resource for the local radio and podcasting community.

Thank you to everyone who came out to learn about the show. Spreading the word is the hardest part about getting a new podcast off the ground, and I now have an enormous head start.

The photos below are by Graham Gordon Ramsay and Paul Roush. All captions are in left-to-right order.

Guests filter in
 

Setting the stage

The PRX Podcast Garage at night

Jeff Engel, Alison Bauter, Greg Huang

Alex Braunstein, Audrey Mardavich, Daniel Gross
 

Bailey

Jen Light, Ruth McElheny, Victor McElheny

Ben Wiehe, Paul Roush, Jamie Roush

Jamie Roush, Paul Roush

Aayesha Siddiqui, Oliver Davis

Ruth McElheny, Gregg Sorensen

Wade Roush, Michèle Oshima

Mark Lowenstein, Jeff Engel

Patricia Bates Roush, Ellen Leanse

Maia Weinstock, Wade Roush, Leigh Royden

Joel Roston, Wade Roush

Daniel Gross, Ari Daniel
 

John Diniz, Michèle Oshima

Rosalind Williams, Jen Light, Leigh Royden

Alex Braunstein, Oliver Davis

John Diniz, Mitch Hanley

Tamar Avishai, Ben Wiehe, Jamie Roush
 

Joel Roston, Andy Hrycyna, Warren Prosperi

Wade Roush, JC Giraldo

Patricia Bates Roush, Wade Roush, Ellen Leanse

Patricia Bates Roush, Wade Roush, Ellen Leanse

Alice Flaherty, Leigh Royden

Victor McElheny, Jamie Roush
 

Wade Roush, Kip Clark

Ari Daniel

Deep bench of supporters

Gideon Gil, Michael Fitzgerald, Wade Roush

Introducing Soonish

Hogging the mic

Introducing Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

Attentive crowd

Jamie and Kieran

Wrapping up

Kind applause

Congratulations from Kieran

Uncle Wade and Kieran