Mela Sarajane Dailey is one of the treasures of Austin’s Arts community. She is a a classically trained soprano with one Grammy and eight Grammy nominations under her belt for her work with the Austin choral ensemble, Conspirare. Mela SaraJane has sung with operas and orchestras around the world, including the Austin, Detroit, Rochester and […]

I’m always curious about film producers, because the job can be anything from fund-raising and budget setting to logistics to taking part in directorial decisions. So I was excited when Hillary Pierce, the producer of The River And The Wall, found time to do an interview. Listen to the podcast on ATX UnBound and hear […]

Marc Pouhé is one of Austin’s most well-known actors. He has performed in pretty much every theatre venue that Austin has to offer from Zach Scott and Mary Moody to the State Theatre and Vortex. He’s performed everything from Shakespeare to Dilbert (!), and he is now vice president of Austin Shakespeare. Listen to my […]

When Zach Horvath made a graffiti that said “Live A Great Story, he had know idea it would start a movement. Zach Horvath is the guy who pasted “Live a Great Story” on the massive columns under the MoPac expressway in Austin. If you’ve ever walked across the pedestrian bridge there, you’ve definitely seen it. […]

“We’re the storyteller. We’re not the story of the trauma. We’re the one who gets to tell the story.” Brooke Axtell I’ve known of Brooke Axtell for years, and I am super excited to have her here on ATX UnBound. Brooke and I share a philosophy that you are the storyteller of your own life. […]

Joel Laviolette’s music is fusion in the truest sense of the word. He is an American master of the traditional African instruments the mbira and marimba, and he mixes those ancient sounds with high tech audio sampling and projection mapping. His work is fun, danceable, high energy and often trance-like. It is music that is […]

Listen to Peter Bay, conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, talk about how he got into conducting, the creativity or interpretation, and more.

Michael Love – Tapping Deep Emotions Being brave enough to step out and say, “I’m gonna make work that speaks to this part of my identity”. Michael Love’s work is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. He’s a tap dancer who taps to hip-hop, funk and videos of social justice work. His dance taps deep […]

Nelson Guda – We Are Not Enemies “When we find compassion, we realize that we are not enemies.” This episode includes an interview I did for a Nicole Morin’s podcast, Universally Seeking. I hesitated to post an interview with myself, but after the mid-term elections I thought that this topic was especially relevant. My biggest project […]

Chef Erind Halilaj – Creativity and Tradition “I think that I am a chef because I know what my palatte wants, and I know how to get there.” Chef Erind Halilaj started cooking as a way to be independent so he wouldn’t have to go to military school in Italy. When he realized that he […]