Ep. 75: Michael Koep, musician, author, and swordsman

Join us for our season finale and our 75th episode with Michael Koep, a local author, musician (drummer) and swordsman/jouster as we talk to him about his fourth book, Gigmentia: a love story to his music, bands, bandmates, son, and mostly his mother. This memoir with posts from his personal journal is inspiring, funny, and totally engaging. The book is due out in March of 2023, but we got an early release copy, and could not put it down.

By the age of 12, Michael B. Koep had written a complex, Tolkienesque fantasy with its own number system, language and runic alphabet. He continues that tradition with his fiction debut. Koep has been called an Inland Northwest “Renaissance Man”. An avid world traveler, educator, accomplished visual artist, and a touring rock musician, Michael’s spirit is imbued in the arts. He is a co-founder of a North Idaho fencing consortium, but he is best known as a drummer and lyricist for progressive rock group KITE, as well as the percussionist for the variety power trio The RUB. He is a winner of a Costello Poetry Prize. He lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho with his family.

 

You can find out more about Michael and his books, including the Neuwirth Trilogy, at willdreamlyarts.com, and about his band on Facebook @rubtherub