BARRY BROGAN- ORLANDO

brogan29@att.net

 Barry Brogan plays the twenties and thirties pieces that have been played in dance halls and front porches, and a few juke joint jazz bands for decades. Barry presents an American musical history with six, twelve-string, and slide guitars in an award-winning complex fingerstyle, with an ease of movement that makes the instrument seem effortless.   Vocals are added when appropriate.  Favorite artists include Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Fats Waller, Arthur (Blind) Blake and Robert Johnson.  Modern composers include John Fahey, Jorma  Kaukonen, maybe even Harvey Reid & Mike Dowling.  You will hear barroom rag, blue blues, and ballads and melodies that each generation re-discovers as its own private treasure . Festivals:  --Barberville, 6 years.  Artist, MC,  Workshops---Florida Old Time Music Championships:  6 years.  Winner, 4 years, first place (Champion) in both fingerstyle and dobro  2005. --Florida Folk Festival (White Springs).  Performer,  Rising Talent Showcase 2006 --Gamble Rogers Festival– winning contestant in fingerstyle guitar and  “I Remember Gamble” and contests, 2004, fingerstyle finalist 2005, performer and contestant, 2006 --Orlando Folk Festival, Mennello Museum of American Arts, 3 years.  Artist, producer, co-producer for music. --Orange County fair, 4 years. --Pelican Island Festival, 3 years --Sunshine State Acoustic Music Camp, Instructor, fingerstyle guitar 2005, 2006--Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Earth day festivals, 3 years --Occasional listening rooms and small restaurant/bars. President, Central Florida Folk, 6 years.  Run concert series at   Leu Gardens Langford Park.  Favorite instruments. Martin 00-17, 1950.  Died and been re-built several times, plays with an old soul.  It loves my music, and loves studio work.Martin D-35, 1972.  Now it’s broken in.  There are a few pieces which should be played only on a Martin Dreadnaught.Maricopa Custom.  Built as specified with bell brass and German silver, a custom TriCone modeled on a 1928 National.  Sings as sweetly as a summer breeze, mournful as an old country churchyard.Alvarez Silver Anniversary 12-string.  Actually, I use it more than the Martin 12-string.  It came from a silent auction charity bid (oops…), but with some work and setup, its voice came out, and gets better every year.

BLAKE HARRINGTON - ORLANDO

blakepoetry@hotmail.com

Poet, painter and musician who has recently completed "Beyond Three Roses", a multi-media book that includes poetry, recorded songs and illustrations. He uses poetry to reveal a greater reality beyond the scaffolding of words and ideas and asks, "Is not the successful life one that does the same with flesh and time?"

EVAN EXEMPT- CHICAGO

 Evan Exempt has just been un-leashed to the world.
This is the cry of freedom. This is the cry of truth, This is the cry of the underbelly of society, and the voice that hides inside us all.
Evan exempt –why are you crying?  Has not fallen on deaf ears………..
We can only hope that his questions are not answered for a long time to come.
For if even a faint echo of an answer is heard or understood - that all important issue of acceptance will cause this fragile monster of a new talent to disappear and his next return may not be so nice…….for to understand the misunderstood, a DEATH occurs.
A death of creativity, a death of originality, and a death of raw talent.
 Evan does not know the meaning of afraid.frankie's

 five words about: raw, truthful, risky, caring, talented

JPAT-  NEW JERSEY

james_dalton@hotmail.com
jamesdaltonjr@gmail.com
www.jpat.info

Jpat is a singer/songwriter, spoken word artist, a harmonica player, strummer of guitars and mandolins, a writer, and a sometime actor. A mainstay of New Jersey's vibrant music and arts scene, he has been lucky enough to perform in many different settings ranging from sideman to front-man, ensemble member to lead actor, and solo artist to performance artist, all over the U.S. and Europe and as far away as Asia.
His upcoming second book of poetry will be a collaboration with Orlando illustrator, Christian Slade. His "spoken word" shows are spontaneous and emotional and definitely not afraid to bring humor, storytelling, music or even the audience into the act.

frankie's five words about: brave, articulate, open, determined, captivating

JULIANA DAVIDSON- ORLANDO

jules@julianadavidson.com

 (New) Director of Visual Arts for the Osceola Center for the Arts. Artist, Mom, occasional poet - Whether it's scenic murals, graphic design or local art shows, I'm sure we can help each other get the word out that Central Florida has more than potential! We have artistic people that are willing to do the work to bring culture to our communities!

KATIE BALL -ORLANDO

Katie grew up in theater in Ft. Myers, then moved to Orlando in 1993. She is an outreach photography instructor for Crealde' School of Art, a bluegrass dj for WPRK (91.5), an arts contributor for WMFE (90.7), author of the book Any Cool Music, a singer, a photographer, founder of Women in Art and works part-time at City Hall in the City of Orlando's Public Art Department.  She and her husband Ben just celebrated 8 years since their first date!
Detailed info...  Bluegrass on WPRK Saturdays 1 to 3pm on 91.5fm or www.wprkdj.org
Arts Connection on 90.7fm Fridays at 7pm and then a replay Saturdays at noon. www.wmfe.org
Crealde School of Art www.crealde.org  Any Cool Music www.anycoolmusic.com Photography credits include: CDs for Bughead (2), Gargamel and Rocket 88 and she's been published in The Weekly and Orlando Sentinel and will be published nationally in Atomic Ranch magazine in the spring of 2007.  Live singing credits include: Monkey Chuck, Huge Peter, Riverbottom, Terri Binion and the Bible Belt Orphans, and Coyotes and Towndogs.  CD singing credits include Riverbottom's "Red Hot Slag" and Doris Delay's upcoming CD.

frankie's five words about: magical,fresh.inspiring,hard-working,giving

KAYLA PROMMERSBURGER

 "Artwork should be a story, only to reveal itself through the eyes of the beholder."
Currently I am enrolled at the University of Florida, in pursuit to receive my MFA in Visual Art. Though only a student, I have shown at venues such as The Orlando Museum of Art and The Boyd Gallery. I am currently one of the artists showing bi-monthly at the Civic Media Center in Gainesville.I mainly work in mixed-media, trying to enlighten people's minds and expand their imaginations. My artwork will hopefully stimulate people's aesthetic eye, like it stimulates my aesthetic soul. These paintings are the windows to my soul. Welcome to my world.

frankie's five words about: independent, sweet, sharing, beautiful, strong

MARK DeMAIO - ORLANDO

 markjdemaio@gmail.com  

I'm a millionaire. My friends and I. We're like that show Entourage. We can't touch our millions right now, though. It's all tied up in stocks and bonds and IRAs and equity. . .so I may appear to some as more of a glorified beggar. I like archetypes. I think holy beggar is my predominate symbol. I wear the threads of a holy man: Old Navy cargo pants.TAKE LESSONS FROM MARK...Facilitated Percussive Experiment Body.....What: Beginner to Intermediate hand-drumming classesFor: Those who'd like to learn hand drumming techniques, basic music theory, and foundation rhythms for percussionists.Price: Donations accepted. Free if you don't have any cash. Whatever. *Pricing subject to change next month.

frankie's five words about: passionate, giving, friendly, educated, worldly

MURZ - ORLANDO

bluecrash@gmail.com 

 Bluecrash/Morgan Freeman

Internationally known multimedia artist. Named as one of the top 10 digital artists in America by Corel and PGA. Animations displayed on Corels international Digitalism tour 2002-2003. Motion-graphic, short film, and animation installations were commissioned by Artmatch, ArtworksSF and 111 Mina. Held 2003-2005 VJ residency at Ruby Skye in SF, CA running eighty-foot video collage-installations.

frankie's five words about: talented, fun, inspiring, persistent, magic
   
NUDE BANDIT- ORLANDO

www.nudebandit.com

nudebandit@mail.com
 

The Nude Bandit started writing short stories at the age of 10 primarily in the horror genre. At the age of 14 he discovered the intellectual caffeine of bohemian coffee houses.  It was here that the inspirational discovery of Bob Dylan, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Kerouac, Kant and Taoism transformed the Nude Bandit’s consciousness. Between filterless schmoo-snick gitane's and hours of non-stop coffee bistro binging, he penned about 20 notebooks of poetry and short stories which were all later stolen in a hotel room on Lee Road. Since then, he has written three fictional novels, “Hopeless Romantics Vol. I:  Unrequited Love”“Hopeless Romantics Vol. II:    Restless Hearts”“Captured Mind”  Both of the Hopeless Romantics novels are in the genre of Paranormal Romance written in a literary prose style.  “Captured Mind” is literary fiction. He currently is the host of an Orlando Poetry Open Mic on Wednesdays evenings at Austin's Coffee and Film. Sign up begins at 8:30 pm and the event ends at 11 p.m. A free poetry contest is also held every Wednesday during the “Naked Words” open mic. Feel free to join the poetry gathering every Wednesday.  His latest writings and photographs can be found at his website.

  frankie's five words about: dedicated, fearless, original, pure, human

NEYSA – ORLANDO

"I paint to get away from everyday life. There's nothing better than to be far away from all the stresses this world has to throw at you. No worries... just sweet relaxation. I create so that people can share in what I dream. Painting is my therapy. Many times, when you're worried or someone has wronged you, you don't know how to deal with the stress & rage built up inside....I paint so that I won't have to say anything verbally....I can show the world my struggles, my pain and my sorrow.......but in a beautiful way. I take all the horrible situations in my life and turn them into incredible works of art....I was born and raised in Florida and graduated from UCF with a B.A. in Art and have been working for an international publications company as a graphic designer for the past 3yrs."

frankie's five words about:  educated, independent, fun, truthful, positive

NYAHZUL- ORLANDO

 nyahzul@gmail.com

As an artist, I am primarily interested in emotions and moments, particularly real events that take place  in our everyday lifes. My interest in expressing emotions through art proceeds from my personal life  and memories I have as a child and the longing for that past, that I believed would be my present.  I am interested in creating work that explores a time and moment whether it be in a dream or a real event, a  place for the audience to reflect on how each impact on their lives. I work along fault lines and exposing self-contradictory moments, and the moments of compromised enjoyment. I am fascinated by momentary  emotions. I am intrigued by the variety, complexity, beauty and seduction of feelings, whether it's sadness and happiness,  pain or peace... Romance is as important to me as pain. I try to create in my work a space that can pick up on a moment of beauty or not, and enjoy the wonder of that without denying its flaws and fallacies. My work is about life  and people and the behind the mask. I find my inspiration in my dreams which are the reflections of  my everyday emotions or in something I read, specially crime scenes and news reports.  I am vulnerable and intense, I am Nyahzul, I am art, and my paintings are an extension of myself.

frankie's five words about:  smart, faithful, delicate, nurturing, dedicated

PAUL SANDERS - ORLANDO

www.watersignarts.com/paulsanders  pskvii123@yahoo.comFor all intensive purposes Paul Sanders best be described as a Creative Renaissance Mann...besides playing guitar, singing and writing music in the on again off again alterjazzicalworldfolk music ensemble known as Stranger Than Fiction...he also has been envolved over the course of time that he has lived here in the art community working his surrealdadaesqueabstractions into mixed media form, acted with various theatre companies and in a multitude of film productions,and developed his neo beat style of spoken word performance. Paul came here from Seattle,Wash.where he had been envolved in the theatre community to work initially in Streetmosphere at DIsney/MGM Studios.After that there were stints with the Orlando Opera ,Universal Studios ( Ghostbusters and Doc Brown)and on into the arts community.He studies Voice,Jazz ,Opera workshop composition and actors studio at Western Washington University in Bellingham Washington .

frankie's five words about: talented,persistent,sharing,educated,worldly

REBECCA TEX - ORLANDO

RebeccaTexMusic@aol.com

Rebecca Tex combines the elements of solo acoustic guitar and her distinctive vocal talent to present her original songs with both power and intimacy. An award winner over the years for her songwriting as well as her live performance, Rebecca has also been a very successful local business owner and currently operates a hot dog vending company called  The Jolly Dogger. She chooses to perform her music live for worthy causes and events that interest her these days, so don't miss this rare appearance!

frankie's five words about: dedicated,truthful,talented,witty,faithful

RHOADE / SCOTT BOGGS - ORLANDO

captainrealestate@juno.com

My Friends,;Rhoade is a happily washed-up San Francisco veteran of the awesome 1980's-1990's Cafe Babar scene.  He also flopped in multilevel marketing, commodity trading, and post-graduate education at a couple of upscale universities. Once, he was fired from a college theatrical role...that of Walter Mitty in "The Battle Between the Sexes"! Since then he has been attempting to avoid living in the past too much by helping Orange County disabled kids as an ESE aide and as volunteer consultant for the Henry Nehrling Society, keepers of the Nehrling legacy in Gotha, Florida.  Nehrling formed Palm Cottage Gardens in 1894, and was a true spiritual leader in early Orange County, as well as a great environmentalist thinker. Ol' Henry corresponded with botanists abroad and was the main southeastern plant agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bird expert from Galveston to Cape May to Ontario, vertebral zoologist, botanist extraordinaire, advocate of bilingual education, musician, poet, transcendentalist visionary, and Orange County's first big time "theme park" owner (wealthy celebrities and politicians would take the train from up north to see his tropical wonders) are some reasons that ;Rhoade is one of Ol' Henry's  biggest fans.  And Ol' Henry did most of it all for free or at a financial loss (frozen out in the winter of 1916 and robbed of most of his plants by the late 1920's, Henry Nehrling died broke in Gotha in 1926);Rhoade organized a small art and poetry gathering in July 2005 out at Palm Cottage Garden and will hold Bamboo Fest II at Urban Think Bookstore, Thornton Park, on September 16, starting at noon and going on hopefully for decades thenceforth. Bamboo Fest II will include some of  ;Rhoade's favorite artists, poets, musicians, urban planners, landscape architects and horticulturalists, health care administrators and holistic medicine experts, and others whom  ;Rhoade knows will bring the Central Florida Green Living experience closer to fruition (get it, fruits and nuts?  But we great thinkers have always gotten everywhere that mattered first, before the straight-laced souls!Thank you, and see you either at Bamboo Fest II or out at the Gardens!  ;Rhoade

frankie's five words about: original,family-oriented,respectful,true,kind

TONY MACALUSO- ORLANDO

 http://www.beefstewdios.com

 Tony got to Orlando via his home town of New York City, and his adopted home town of Portland, Oregon….with a bizarre, but brief stint in Okeechobee, FL. Many will recognize him as the bass-playing side-man/session-man performing, and recording with The Rackets, Loligo, Luke Bailey and his Ukulele, Jerry Mincey, and Benjamin DeHart, among others. If you ask him, Tony’ll say he’s a folkie, but if you listen to him play, there’s more to it than that. In late 2004 Tony released his solo debut Procrustean Procrastinator through Beef Stewdios (www.beefstewdios.com). Ask Tony for your FREE COPY….and look for him around town with his band “The Procrastinators”.