Madazon Can-Can is a working clown, burlesquer, puppeteer, drag thing and regular weirdo based out of Salt Lake City, UT. This last year solidified their position as someone who constantly finds their voice in their art and now, well they just can't shut up. Running into issues with the state, being censored publicly and from other local theatre and dance companies, Madazon is no stranger to fighting for her right to ART! Good thing they've been through the school of hard knocks from the beginni...
Feb 24, 2020•2 hr 25 min
Jay Whittaker is a comedian from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Boston! Jay was recently one of the featured comedians on the Dry Bar Comedy Live tour, which was in over 60 comedy clubs nationwide. He has been seen on the Disney Channel, Food Network, and Lifetime Channel. He's also received the "Best of Fest" award at the Big Pine Comedy Festival. Jay is also a loving father, and 16-year Air Force veteran. @itsjaywhittaker
Feb 17, 2020•2 hr 2 min
Julie Barnson has always been a storyteller. She just didn’t know it! She would tell stories to her friends on long car rides or on campouts. It wasn’t until she attended a storytelling class in college, that she learned that you could actually BE a storyteller! Since then she has worked telling stories at schools, libraries, festivals, and other events. . Her career has led her to being a chapter president, a tour guide for ghost tours, and a board member for the Story Crossroads storytelling f...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 43 min
Shannon Camacho is the front-woman and main songwriter for Hello Shannon, an Indie Electronic duo from Dallas, TX that brings together electronic elements with organic live instrumentation and a focus on vocal layering and production. Influences include Imogen Heap, Kimbra and James Blake. Hello Shannon was started in 2014 by Shannon along with her husband/producer, Jonathan Camacho. After the release of their first EP, “The Tide,” Hello Shannon began performing at festivals, venues such as Hous...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 54 min
Jonathan Ingram worked in the graphic design industry for more than 20 years before becoming a studio artist. He creates abstract paintings and sculpture that interplay between the two art forms with exquisite texture, color, and form. Graduating with a BA in Illustration from East Texas State University, Jonathan honed his design skills to capture a job with GibbsBaronet before starting his own company, i.design in 1998. From exhibition design to branding and identity for such clients as Dallas...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Born in Granada, Spain in 1983, Pamies has published four albums under his name; Entre Amigos (PSM, 2008), Borrachito (Bebyne Records, 2011), What Brought You Here? (Bebyne Records, 2017), and Summer Night at La Corrala: Solo Piano (expected December 2019). Critics have acknowledged his talent for composition, the lyrical qualities of his playing, and his natural and spontaneous ability to fuse the traditional jazz language and flamenco music of his childhood. Pamies has performed at festivals i...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 44 min
Michael Wysong Crigger studied Fashion Design at the University of North Texas, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in May, 2011. He began pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at UNT. During his undergraduate career, Michael studied Haute Couture sewing techniques in Paris, France. He has been recognized in several design competitions, and finds his passion in tailoring and construction. "For us, Petit Atelier is about bringing back some of the charm of the original ateliers of Paris...
Jan 13, 2020•2 hr 1 min
At the helm of our kitchen is Chef José Meza Arróyave, one of Mexico’s finest. Meza has spent his career at culinary meccas including Rene Redzepi’s NOMA in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Enrique Olvera’s Pujol, in Mexico City. Hailing from Mexico City himself, Meza most recently led the kitchen at the famed Restaurant Carolina, at the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort, as well as the Nizuc Resort & Spa, named “Best New Restaurant in Mexico” by Travel + Leisure in 2014. Meza now brings his contemporary ...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Praised for the “breathtaking singing quality of his sound” by jazz icon John McNeil and as a “musician of the highest order” by renowned orchestral trumpeter Charles Daval, Ryan Nielsen’s lyricism and versatility are rare. His artistry grows out of a love of groove, spirit, and beautiful melody. He began performing professionally at 17, and has since been a guest artist at concerts and festivals throughout the United States. Nielsen’s debut album, Gift of Breath (a joint project with his mentor...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Rebecca Jensen loves telling stories and drawing pictures, so becoming an illustrator made perfect sense. She currently lives and works in Utah, creating art for children’s books, magazines, posters, cards, and anything else people will let her draw on.
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 29 min
Artistic Director of Salt Lake City’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company since 2013, Daniel Charon has been active as a choreographer, teacher, and performer for over twenty-five years. While based in New York City, Daniel maintained a project-based company and danced with Doug Varone and Dancers and the Limón Dance Company. Additionally, he performed with Doug Elkins and Friends, the Metropolitan Opera, the Aquila Theater Company, and the Mary Anthony Dance Theater among others. He is a BFA graduate ...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 49 min
Mindy has been performing since the age of eight. Her original goal in life was to be the world’s first “singing Heart Surgeon”. Unfortunately, medical school didn’t pan out; so, she decided to heal the world through music and as a result, she has been studying different vocal techniques, voice science, and vocal health her entire life. Mindy has studied with many nationally and internationally renowned vocal instructors and was a vocal performance major at the University of Utah. Mindy is part ...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 32 min
Jessica Day George is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tuesdays at the Castle series, the Twelve Dancing Princesses series, and the Dragon Slippers trilogy. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University where she earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature, and worked as a librarian and bookseller before turning to writing full-time. She now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and their three young children. www.jessicadaygeorge.com
Nov 18, 2019•2 hr 5 min
Chef Nick’s Bio My mother comes from a strong Italian family raised in New Orleans. Family life was all about food and southern hospitality. My father was obsessed with French culinary tradition and always wanted to be a chef. He graduated from Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France in 2004. I wasn’t exposed to this obsessive side of my father until shortly before he passed away. I became intertwined with my dad’s passion. After I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY, I ...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Heidi M. Gress first discovered her passion for Creative Entrepreneurship while studying European Cinema at the University of London. After she completed her film education with a BFA from the prestigious Chapman University in Southern California, she continued in the creative industry by working as a commercial producer, fashion film and documentary director and still photographer in Los Angeles. Her editorial work has taken her all over the globe and she has been published in numerous internat...
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 32 min
Salt Lake City-based artist Stacy Phillips shifts effortlessly between sculpture and painting. In part, this is because her studios for each discipline lie under one roof. In part, it is because she has mastered the ability to adapt as the result of moving 49 times in her life. (Her family relocated frequently while her father worked for Campbell Soup Company.) A change-filled life also helps explain the wide range of Stacy’s artistic toolbox: She works in sculpture, ceramics, painting (on canva...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 18 min
As a child, sports were Monica's main focus, but she auditioned for her first musical as a young teen, and was quickly hooked--switching focus to acting, singing, dancing, and modeling. She attended Brigham Young University (BYU) on a talent scholarship, majoring in Music Dance Theatre. In 2013, Monica started getting into film, and is best known for her role as Julie Flinders in Saturday's Warrior. Monica currently works as an actor, singer, dancer, and fitness model. https://monicamooresmith.c...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 50 min
Adam has been making violins since age 14, due in part to the recommendation of his first violin teacher, Kelly Richardson. His violins have been played on and praised by Joshua Bell, Joseph Silverstein, and Igor Gruppman, as well as many young, talented soloists throughout Utah. Born in Murray, Utah, Adam grew up in a musical environment, beginning the violin at age 3. When he began studying to be a luthier with Paul Hart, violin making came naturally to Adam because of his highly developed ear...
Oct 14, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Christine Baird did a career 180 when she moved from the corporate world to focus on podcasting, event production, social media strategy, and influencer branding. She developed Lewis Howes’ brand, the School of Greatness, for four years, during which time the podcast downloads increased from 1 million to over 80 million. She now helps influencers launch and strategize their shows. She also produces her own self-development podcast, the Worthfull Project. She’s passionate about becoming the best ...
Oct 07, 2019•2 hr 3 min
LULU FALL is a singer, award-winning songwriter and actor currently based in New York. Lulu, a formally trained jazz vocalist with a musical theatre background, is one complete and unexpected package. As a product of Senegalese and Cameroonian parentage, her music reflects her global perspective by way of her American sensibilities. https://www.lulufall.com/ Because Lulu has a background in musical theatre, she alternates between that and music. Among other shows, she was a performer in the Smit...
Sep 30, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Clayton Vance is a practicing architect with his own small firm in the Park City Utah area. He received his masters of architecture from the university of Notre Dame where he studied traditional architecture and urbanism. His passion is creating beautiful and timeless spaces. He started the https://www.timelesshomes.org/ website and podcast where he hopes to take us all on a journey of discovery as to what makes cities and buildings truly timeless. https://www.claytonvance.com/
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr 47 min
"I grew up here in Utah and attended Culinary School at Utah Valley University where she learned all about the art and science of cooking. I loved every second of culinary school...almost! But I didn't learn any of the cake decorating or sugar flower work I do today in school. That came from years of trial and error, recipe testing and an obsession with flowers. I love a good challenge when it comes to new flavors or a new flower. I love to pick apart a flower and see how it's put together. My b...
Sep 15, 2019•1 hr 42 min
Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance (2012) and Knowing Time by Light (2010) were published by Blaine Creek Press. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others. He lives in Salt Lake Cit...
Sep 08, 2019•1 hr 47 min
Becky Willard is a Warm Audio featured artist, a music producer, recording engineer, songwriter and vocalist. She began working with artists over 25 years ago as a mentor, vocal coach and songwriting coach. It was a natural transition from coach to producer as she guided singers searching for their sound and began recording them in her home studio. In 2010, Becky founded Vox Fox Studios and has become the go-to producer for many Utah artists as well as artists from all over the world. These arti...
Aug 31, 2019•1 hr 51 min
Celeste Chaney is a writer, filmmaker, and marketing consultant. Her first script, The Feed, is in development with Passage Pictures and was a finalist in the Tribeca Film Institute’s 2019 AT&T Untold Stories Competition, as well as the Alfred P. Sloan filmmaker fund. Her novel, In Absence of Fear, received Honorable Mention at Foreward’s 2015 Book of the Year Awards. She wrote, produced, and directed Cradle Song, her first short film in May 2019. https://www.celestechaney.com/
Aug 25, 2019•1 hr 43 min
Davis Hong is the designer behind BYSHAO, a minimalist unisex fashion brand based in Salt Lake City, Utah. With over 8 years of experience, Davis’s distinct style has shown to stand out amongst crowds. The brand focuses on sustainable multi-seasonal jackets + tops. With an attention to quality, detail, and a new yet classic approach in design, the pieces are made to make you feel effortlessly powerful. No need to think about what to wear, simply put on a jacket or top and you’re ready to take on...
Aug 17, 2019•1 hr 46 min
Born in the "Charm City" of Baltimore,Dee-Dee has ben delighting audiences with her mixture of jazz standards, R&B, soul and funk for a quarter of a century.While making sweet sounds Dee-Dee also discovered the acting bug and has performed in countless regional theater productions and discovered her love of jazz while performing to sold out shows in the lead role in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill for Pygmalion Theater Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Folks have been lining up to see h...
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Alternative classical composer Phillip Bimstein lives in Salt Lake City and Springdale, Utah, where he served two terms as mayor. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, American Composers Forum, Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Bimstein’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Bang on a Can Festival, Aspen Music Festival, ...
Aug 04, 2019•1 hr 57 min
Melanie Shore’s dynamic musical fluency on the piano has established her as an accomplished performer, sought-after studio musician, and award-winning composer and arranger. Over her career, she has performed with an array of artists, including Chuck Berry, Il Divo, Lea Salonga, David Archuleta, Debby Boone, The Osmonds 2nd Generation, Restless Heart, and Teddy Gentry from the Grammy Award-winning group Alabama, among many others. Melanie most recently completed her stay as associate music direc...
Jul 28, 2019•1 hr 55 min
Artist’s Statement Life presents a child with a choice on Saturday mornings—cartoons or cooking shows? I always opted for the second. Though my passion for food didn’t turn into a career, it is still an indispensable part of my life. When my love for ceramics began, so too was born a dream of marrying it with the culinary arts. I had a vision of customizing dinnerware for chefs. Growing up in Salt Lake (which was never on the map for its choice in food) the dream seemed vaguely ludicrous. Would ...
Jul 21, 2019•1 hr 58 min
