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On The Set Of SNL With Shawn Pelton
David Weiss spends a grueling day behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live with the show’s house drummer Shawn Pelton, while the snow piles higher.
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Valerie Naranjo: Live From New York
Valerie Naranjo is so complex and so accomplished as a musician that it is impossible to tag line her persona. She holds the percussion chair in the Saturday Night Live house band, and you’d think that would be enough, but it’s not. That tag shadows her incredible achievements performing and arranging for the five percussionists in Julie Taymore’s Broadway production of The Lion King. And the story only starts there.
