Samantha Uzbay is a Producer and Director of Business Development at Premier Music Group, a firm that oversees the music for film, television, advertisements, and more. Most recently, she contributed to the GRAMMY-nominated For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, a 242-piece collection of original music, poetry, and art, including works by Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Ronson, Beck, and others, all inspired by birdsong to benefit birdlife.

Samantha is also a professional violist and violinist who earned her B.A. in Viola Performance from Boston University's College of Fine Arts and studied at the Royal College of Music in London and the Manhattan School of Music.

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Eddie Kopp is the founder of the Sugarshack music channel. The YouTube-based platform showcases local, emerging, and national Musicians, with videos of them performing intimate, stripped down acoustic versions of their songs. The channel has grown from a backyard hobby into a business that includes audio and video production, photography, graphic design, and conceptual development, as well as a YouTube channel with than 350K subscribers and 400M views.

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Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold are both comedy writers just coming off of a 2-year stint on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, where they were the youngest writers in late night television. They also have several new shows in the works.

Their new book, called “Naked in the Rideshare” is a collection of stories about the different stages of life, from childhood to college to adulthood. One of the blurbs on the jacket comes from Will Ferrell, who describes it as “Incredibly original, bizarre, and funny.”

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Bob Lewis is a poet, composer, and musician – probably best known as co-founder and early guitarist for the band DEVO. Bob attended Kent State University in the late 60s and after the Kent State shootings on May 4th, 1970, Bob and his friend Gerald Casale started exploring the theme of what they termed “de-evolution.” Peter Gregg joined them the following year and the trio recorded three proto-Devo songs ⁠—"I Been Refused", "I Need a Chick" and "Auto Modown"⁠.In 1973, they formed the band DEVO with Mark Mothersbaugh and made their debut performing at the K.S.U. Creative Arts Festival as the Sextet Devo.

Bob stopped by our studio while he was in town for a Q. & A. event as part of the “DEVO 5-0: The Beginning was the End – A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute to The De-Evolution Band.”

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James Haick III is the president of Scout Comics - a publishing house for  creator-owned comics that also connects writers and artists (and their characters) with producers of movies, tv shows, and video games.

He's also the creator of several comics, including Solar Flare (set in a post-apocalyptic world brought about by sudden disabling of technology) CODENAME: Ric Flair  (a comic about the secret agent adventures of Ric Flair the pro wrestler  - who worked on the comic with James), and The Mall  (three teens in the 80’s become owners of mall stores that are actually mob-fronts).

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Kidd Kwest is founder and member of DeadLink Clique art collective, and the booking and event manager for Trackout Studios. He writes all his own lyrics, raps, and produces music as well as dabbling in acting. He’s performed in New Jersey, California, and Texas for SXSW, and all over Florida including the 2nd ever Rolling Loud Hip Hop festival.

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Andrew Armstrong is a pianist who has performed for audiences all over the world, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.

He has performed with conductors including as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has appeared in solo recitals and in chamber music concerts with a bunch of Quartets and as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.

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 Brent Crawford is the Managing Director for Busey Bank’s Wealth Management Group Southwest Florida.

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Known as the “Barefoot Baroness”, Wendy Oxenhorn is the founding director and vice chairman of the Jazz Foundation of America, a non-profit that helps jazz and blues musicians in need of emergency funds.

Prominent board members include Quincy Jones, their current chairman; Richard Parsons, Agnes Varis, Elvis Costello, Danny Glover, Michael Novogratz and Lou Reed. Under her leadership the foundation has raised more than $70 million and helped countless musicians in crisis over the decades.

Wendy also plays a mean harmonica and was named a NEA Jazz Master in 2016.

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Jon Brooks is a Canadian singer songwriter who holds record for most nominations for ‘Songwriter of the Year’ at The Canadian Folk Music Awards.

His seven albums explore themes of paradox, love, fear, grief, religion, war, post traumatic stress, AI, refugee crises, animal justice, murder, ecology, esoterica, and the stars.

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