This month Matthew Ablan speaks with solo acoustic cover artist Neal Carter. Matthew and Neal discuss playing out, cover tunes, being a solo acoustic player, stage attire and more!

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This month Matthew Ablan speaks with John Bureau from Earshot - an events promotion platform which connects hosts & creators through a digitized booking process & shares event details with fans. The platform enables people to find and follow profiles to keep up with local live music events and venues and musicians can book and coordinate upcoming gigs in one place.

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Happy New Year! To kick off 2024 host Matthew Ablan speaks with The King Of Seven Strings - Vadim Kolpakov. Vadim is one of the most prominent and renowned Gypsy 7-string guitarists in the world, as well as a vocalist, dancer and composer. He specializes in in Gypsy music from Europe with fusion of Jazz, Pop, Flamenco, Latin and other World Music.

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This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with Kevin Marshall from Smiling Moon Guitars. Kevin is a luthier and sing-songwriter who has been a staple on the Charlotte music scene for over two decades.

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This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with Chris Suter of Ginger Cat Sounds - a recording studio designed to meet all of your audio production needs. Queen

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This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with Troy Kryzalka the Number Drummer. Troy is a former educator, curriculum and instruction trainer, coach and developer. He is the creator and teacher of the Number Drummer program which he brings schools all over the east coast. The Number Drummer program demonstrates the connection between math and music, and how when you learn a musical instrument you are also learning math.

This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with Jason Hausman who is a composer, sound designer and founder of the audio branding studio Hot Sakē. The two discuss Jason's evolution into composition and sound design, developing Hot Sake, what it takes to stay relevant in the field, recent/upcoming projects and becoming a falconer!

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This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with Chris Suter and Paul Ward who form Lowcats - an enigmatic duo who's sound can best be defined as "Lo-Fi Indie Pop." The two discuss how they the duo came to be, how the gravitated to their current style of music, their songwriting process and developing their sound.

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This month host Matthew Ablan speaks with drummer/composer Curtis Wingfield who has been a staple on the local Charlotte music scene since the later 90's! Curtis talks about his back ground, the formation of Jazz is Led, his history with Old House Studio, his approach to composing and of course his latest music releases!

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For this final episode of 2022 I go back and take interesting parts from the years past episodes (52 - 56) which feature:

• E52 - Daniel Grimmett, Dark Label Music
• E53 - Ron Brendle, bassist
• E54 - Marina Alexandra, classical guitarist
• E55 - Jim Brock, percussionist
• E56 - Jeremy Radio, Four Finger Records/Thousand Dollar Movie

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