Episode 315 - Katie Garcia
Katie Garcia is Vice President of A&R at Capitol Music Group. Prior to that Katie worked at Secretly Group for 8 years and helped sign some of their flagship artists including Slowdive, Faye Webster, serptentwithfeet, Japanese Breakfast, and Phoebe Bridgers. Before that she was the label manager …
Episode 314 - Preston Rumbaugh
Preston Rumbaugh is a roots-music veteran now based in Clarksdale, Mississippi where he is a member of the Big A & the Allstars blues trio. He also leads his own blues band that features Big A & the Allstars members Anthony "Big A" Sherrod and Lee Williams, and he plays solo gigs. Preston has ba…
Episode 313 - Grace Lougen
Grace Lougen is a guitarist and songwriter from Buffalo, NY. She toured Europe and the US with award-winning bandleader Robert Parker and with Grace Stumberg, who also performed as Joan Baez’s background vocalist for 8 years. In the studio, Grace has contributed her songwriting and guitar playing…
Episode 312 - Dawn Belamarich
Dr. Dawn Belamarich is president and CEO of the Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers, which used to be the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. She leads a team that coordinates efforts to solve Southwest Florida’s social problems on an eighteen-year deadline. She holds a Doctorate in Business …
Episode 311 - Bryce Ivie
Bryce Ivie is Events Director for Sugarshack Music Channel - and he hosts their podcast that features conversations with the cool bands they bring to their porch. He’s also the frontman for an Americana Folk Rock band called Sun State Blues.
Episode 310 - Chef Paul Rogalski
Chef Paul Rogalski is the Culinary Director & Co-Owner of Rouge Restaurant in Calgary - one of San Pellegrino’s "World’s 50 Best Restaurants". He can be seen starring in Les Stroud’s Wild Harvest on PBS, where he explores natural landscapes across North America with Survivorman Les Stroud. In each…
Episode 309 - Dan Navarro
Dan Navarro is a singer and has been a songwriter for artists including Pat Benatar (he co-wrote “We Belong”) The Bangles, Jackson Browne, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick and more. He's also a voice actor and singer. Most recently, he sang on six Lin-Manuel Miranda songs in the Disney Film Encanto…
Episode 308 - Alexander Goldstein
Alexander Goldstein has composed music scores for 26 feature films, two silent classics, approximately 300 documentary films, animations, countless radio and television shows, circus and stage shows, commercials, and sports programs in the U.S. and abroad. More than 40 Olympic Medals and over 120…
Episode 307 - Jazmyn Hunter
Jazmyn Hunter is the first-ever City Curator for Sofar Sounds, a movement that creates intimate concerts with local artists in nontraditional settings, in 400 cities around the world. After recently moving to Ft. Myers and falling love with the local music scene there, she’s made it her persona…
Episode 306 - Liz Cochran
Liz Cochran is owner of Stellar Records. Born and raised in New York, she quickly became immersed in the Southwest Florida music scene when she moved there at 20 years old. She's a buyer, seller, collector, and advocate for listening to new and vintage music on vinyl.