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LA-based singer-songwriter, bassist, and album producer Kimon Kirk has worked with a wide range of artists including Gaby Moreno, Aimee Mann, Alejandro Escovedo, Grant-Lee Phillips, Session Americana, Sarah Borges, Amy Correia, Lori McKenna, and other musicians of diverse musical stripes.  A native of Boston, he relocated to Los Angeles in 2018 and has since been a mainstay of Latin-Grammy winner Gaby Moreno's touring band, as well as performing with Amy Correia (and producing her forthcoming EP) and playing bass with former X-guitarist Tony Gilkyson.  His jazz trio, the Blue Grifters, includes guitarist Michael Eisenstein (Letters to Cleo) and drummer Sebastian Aymanns (Gaby Moreno, Aimee Mann).

 

In 2020 Kimon will release his first full-length solo album since 2011, tentatively called Altitude.  It features his longtime Boston band, the Meds, and was recorded with David Minehan (of the Replacements and the Neighborhoods) at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Boston.  

 

Kimon has been an invited guest lecturer on songwriting and music performance at Berklee College of Music, Georgetown University, Boston College, Boston University, and Suffolk University.

New York City is still home to Val Kinzler aka “Valkyrie” as she’s affectionately known to her friends and fans.Val started playing piano at age five and as her passion for songwriting grew, she picked up the guitar which led her to playing solo gigs around the NYC area and later in Europe.Through out her life, Val has taught music and created special events involving women in music. Her latest CD titled, “Nothing Sacred About Hatred”, is the culmination of years of songwriting. Val shares a lifetime of joy, pain, love, and loss in her lyrics. Inspired by the blues, Val’s theatrical edge has led her to create her own genre of soulful “sophistipunk” .Val remains an integral part of the downtown New York City singer/songwriter music scene as an event promoter and performer. Her spirited presence, unorthadox vocal style, and award winning songs led her to collaborate with other noteworthy talent She’s opened for and/or shared the stage with Dr. John, Marty Balin, Three Dog Night, Johnny Johnson,Jon Paris and others. Val later joined forces with local musicians to create her band “Validation” playing hard edged punk rock originals at local clubs. Songs such as: “Dirty Blonde”, “Keep Your Baby On A Leash”, and “Metal Swing” which quickly became crowd favorites and Val still re-visits these catchy tunes at her solo dates!Val remains involved playing gigs with VKB(Val Kinzler Band) Comprised of veteran musicians, Joseph Vasta (Mink De Ville, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, John Waite), David White (The Hollies, Stumblebunny) and Ihle Factor (Ian Lloyd, John Ford).She continues to work with students in the New York City public school system as a facilitator of her“Music Cool” songwriting program.After losing her youngest brother to a drug overdose, Val traveled to Pittsburgh, PA on a Martin Guitars Scholarship through “Women In Music”.

Danielle Payne Is the the Owner and Founder of Healthy Promise. She created Healthy Promise from the influence of her daughter's health journey. When her daughter was 2 years old she was diagnosed with cancer and she felt herworld fell apart. They went to numerous doctors to get the right treatment and protocol, which had her mind running around in circles. After her daughter's surgery and the harsh treatment plan she saw her daughter's immune system was compromised. She couldn’t rest, She did countless hours of research and realized that western medicene was not the only route needed to take. She started to make her own super elderberry syrup and many other natural products. She made sure everything She bought was organic and all food labels didn’t involve processed artificial ingredients. These changes started her daughter’s healing journey. Now her daughter is 5 and thriving and she is so happy to share some of the products she created for her with you! 

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Billy Amendola is a New York based, drummer, songwriter, studio musician, mentor, music industry consultant and producer, best known as a founding member of the seventies band, Mantus. 

The group released two albums, and three top ten Billboard dance singles.  They achieved worldwide fame, touring the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Billy has reinvented himself over and over throughout his sustained and successful career, from live performer, songwriter, studio musician and music magazine editor while staying true to himself and his origins. His resilience keeps him pertinent in a constantly changing industry. He has been employed by Modern Drummer  magazine, for the past twenty-five years. Billy has reinvented himself over and over throughout his sustained and successful career, from live performer, songwriter, studio musician and music magazine editor while staying true to himself and his origins. His resilience keeps him pertinent in a constantly changing industry. Inspired by his love of the art rather than thelaurels, Billy has helped launch the careers of innumerable performers. He advocates for the rights of musicians, striving to help new artists to the forefront while encouraging established artists to remain relevant and seek the respect they deserve.

He champions comprehensive music licensing reform, most notably The Music Modernization Act, which impacts hundreds of thousands of music creators. 

He endorses the CASE Act which supports the rights of independent music creators. He acted as consultant and co-host for David Fishof’s Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp, where attendees play, write and record music in professional rehearsal and recording studios alongside music industry legends.

Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera.  An outsider with attitude who captured the heights of Rock’N’Roll music, and the seismic changes of an era.  From the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix, from Woodstock to the civil rights movement - Marshall’s wild side mixed with a compassionate eye led him to immortalisesome of the most iconic moments of the 60s and 70s.Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall chronicles the infamous photographer’s life behind the camera.It was this passion for music that soon led him to capture some of the most iconic figures in music history including Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, The Beatles last live concert, the Monterey Pop Festival, Johnny Cash’s concerts in Folsom and St Quentin Prisons, Woodstock, and the infamous image of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar. It was at this time that he also began his obsession with capturing images of the iconic peace sign, which symbolized the powerful reaction to the escalating war in Vietnam.Jim Marshall holds the distinction of being the first and only photographer to be presented with the Recording Academy's Trustee Award, an honorary Grammy presented to individuals for nonperformance contributions to the music industry.In a career that ended with his untimely death in 2010, Marshall shot more than 500 album covers; his photographs are in private and museum collections around the world.Marshall left his entire estate and archive to his assistant Amelia Davis who has worked tirelessly to protect and promote his legacy. Chronicle Books will be publishing “Jim Marshall: Show Me The Picture” in the fall of 2019 and there will be a retrospective of Marshall’s work at Fotografiska New York in early 2020. We could not have made this film without Amelia’s support and commitment. 

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Dave Robbins has been actively writing fiction for nearly 30 years. The settings of his novels is the 1960s. His first published novel, “The Tu-tone DeSoto” (2014), introduces eight teenagers growing up in Iowa. A young adult novel, the story focuses on the kids’ relationships with their parents and among themselves as they come of age during the veiled turbulence underlying The Kennedy Years (1960-63). His second published novel, “The Reverend” is a crime mystery centered around a serial killer-priest in New York City, 1963-4. A third novel, ‘The Weight of Indifference”, is set in San Francisco and Vietnam during 1965-68. Though the protagonists in the books are introduced in “The Tu-Tone DeSoto,” and they make up a loose series, the novels are written as stand-alone stories.

A former publications art director/designer, he is also an independent publications strategist. Robbins has co-authored two design reference books: "Motion by Design" (Laurence King, 2006) and "Visual Effects Artistry" (Elsevier Press, 2009). He currently presents a lecture/discussion series entitled “The 1960s: Revisiting a Crucial Decade.” He also teaches a course/workshop in fiction writing. Many of his students have blossomed into the writers they never thought they could be. His reward is the nurturing of such talent. He is also a frequent guest on local radio and TV interview shows, where he discusses the 1960s and the effect of media upon culture through history.

SARAH CLANTON’S SPEAKEASY POP’ICANA SHOW IS A CELLO-BRATION OF THE UNEXPECTED. This Nashville based singer-songwriter blends flashes of the classically-trained pop sensibility of Regina Spektor and the sultry jazzitude of Amy Winehouse together in what Clanton calls a “cello-bration” in a one-of-kind musical approach. Sarah Clanton is bringing people together and building a feel-good machine. The Nashville singer-songwriter, who has brought the classical and pop worlds together with her use of a cello, rather than a guitar, to front one of Music City’s most unique bands, has been on a feel-good mission since long before she plucked her way into town. But it’s never been more apparent than on her new album, Here We Are.

 

Here We Are may be a solo album, but Clanton says it could not have been made without others — from co-producer Eric Loomis, to a group of top Nashville session musicians and many more. But mostly, she says, the album was made for others. She jokes that the uplifting, “big and awesome” pop album is a “feel-good machine,” built to bring people together in these difficult and divisive times. “We’re not going to make any progress being divided,” she says. “If I can get some of that mindfulness out there to negate some of the hate, that would be so great.”

Behind Snoop Dogg’s army, executive Bobby Dee, has created a multi-million-dollar company creating live entertainment in the music industry. Uncle Snoops Army is a management company partnered with Bobby Dee Presents to power live concerts, festivals and tours for veteran and breakout artists. Their first national tour together will come this December for Snoop Dogg’s “I Wanna Thank me Tour” thru Jan 2020. Joining the tour are some of Snoop Dogg’s army of talent: Warren G, O.T. Genasis, Trae Tha Truth, and RJ Mr LA. “I’ve been in the music industry for a long time, and Snoop has seen the shows I book and create. He decided to leave WME to partner with me, and the rest was history!”Bobby Dee is also partners with Jim Filipan of FKOA Presents, another live entertainment company focused on Latin American and Spanish concert bookings.Since 1987, Bobby Dee has been promoting and selling out concerts around the country; his early credits included New Kids On The Block and Eazy-E. In 2006, Bobby Dee created his banner company Bobby Dee Presents, also entering the world of EDM and reggaeton to produce shows in large venues and on a national scale. Bobby Dee knows the ins and outs of the touring industry, and catering to A-list artists for life-long memorable consumer experiences.

Steven Heller, is the co-chair with Lita Talarico of the MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He has written the Visuals column for The New York Times Book Review, a weekly column for The Atlantic online and The Daily Heller / Imprint online. He has written more than 180 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, including The Design Entrepreneur (with Lita Talarico), Paul Rand, Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century, Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, Citizen Designer, Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits (with Louise Fili), The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State and 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. He is a contributing editor for Print,  Baseline, Design Observer, Eye. Heller is the recipient of the Art Directors Club Special Educators Award, The Eric Carle Award, the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the School of Visual Arts’ Masters Series Award and the 2011 National Design Award for "Design Mind." He has two honorary doctorates from College of Creative Studies, Detroit and University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Join Red Velvet Media as we talk to Jeremy and The Harlequins about Holidays and a new release !

 In today’s musical landscape inundated by cheap hooks and overproduced studio tricks, Jeremy & The Harlequins are here to keep the fire and spirit of rock’n’roll alive. That’s something the New York five-piece have been doing since forming just a few short years ago, both with their debut album American Dreamer (2015) and its follow-up Into The Night (2016). They’re continuing this approach with their third album in three years, entitled Remember This, which they started writing at home in New York, immediately after the recording of Into The Night.

*Christmas is not to far away and Jeremy and The Harlequins are releasing Two digital singles for the holidays and a video to follow with the Christmas Spirit and some twists along the way . 

This is what is being said about the new releases ,A witty quip to anyone who has experienced this particular holiday nightmare, “A Chinese Restaurant On Christmas” is a bluesy ode to anyone who’s been dumped on Christmas. Dripping in playful cynicism, Jeremy & the Harlequin’s new single comes to terms with a lonely fate over General Tso’s and fortune cookies.

*Come and be Merry and Bright on Red Velvet Media as we get into the spirit of CHRISTMAS!