Inwood Art Works On Air

Listeners may know producer, promoter, and comedian Eric Vetter from No Name… & a Bag of Chips , the weekly comedy/variety show Eric co-founded and hosts at locations around NYC, including Word Up Community Bookshop in the Heights. Now in its twenty-sixth year, No Name has entertained countless audiences and given a stage to thousands of comics, storytellers, musicians, and performers as they...

Hot Glue & The Gun is Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn, two upper Manhattan musicians and theater artists who are dedicated to the idea that art is not a spectator sport. Hot Glue & The Gun's live shows meld comedy, drama, music, love, and a sensitivity to the state of the world into an experience that (as one critic put it) will "tease your senses, prod your brain, and force you to dance." T...

Improvisational sketch artist and teacher Kevin Scott has founded three improv ensembles, including his current company, Centralia Improv , named for the blighted Pennsylvania town beneath which a coal fire is destined to burn for centuries. Kevin has taught and directed improv and sketch comedy at The Second City Training Center and the People’s Improv Theatre (aka the PIT); you’ve seen his stude...

Miguel Andrés Tejada began his musical life as a classical pianist, studying under the famed Cuban teacher Hilda Melis Gras, in his hometown of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, but while still in his youth (and already an accomplished pianist) Miguel’s attention turned to jazz. In 2007 he was awarded a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz composition and...

Ted Minos is an actor, director, producer, and writer who has made his home in upper Manhattan for over two decades. He's appeared on stages across the country, but locals are most likely to recognize him from the Inwood Shakespeare Festival , where he's appeared as Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, or others. Ted is the founder and the producing artistic director of the Moose Hall Theater Company , which...

On this episode, Inwood Art Works On Air welcomes Calliope Brass , five of New York City’s most accomplished--and busiest--horn players. Calliope Brass is dedicated to creating evocative, story-driven musical experiences for every audience. Listeners may recognize them from “ What’s Your Story ?,” the interactive cross-curricular workshop they’ve presented at over a dozen schools in and around New...

Jamie Ignao hails from Greenock, Scotland, but his musical career began at Walt Disney World, in Florida, where his tenor voice got him noticed by a member of the Central Florida Lyric Opera. Two years later, in 2013, he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in The Remarkable Theater Brigade’s production, “Opera Shorts.” Since then he’s sung Arturo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Le Remendado from B...

In this Artist Spotlight episode, Aaron talks to actor-dancer Ximena Salgado. Ximena is a multifaceted artist from Peru, where she appeared in a number of dramatic and musical theater roles at a young age. She’s danced with the Balmir Latin Dance Company throughout the United States, and in 2015 she was crowned the National Salsa Champion of Peru (soloist category), one of her many accolades. Here...

David Anzuelo is a professional actor, director, martial artist and fight director. He's also a member of Labyrinth Theater Company and Rising Phoenix Repertory, and he’s the founder of Unkle Dave’s Fight House, a collective of fight and intimacy directors working to bring a unique approach to fight-choreography and sexual stage violence. Aaron talks to David about all of that and much more! Learn...

This week Inwood Art Works On Air Live N' Local welcomes opera singers Lori Phillips and Mary Phillips. Soprano Lori Phillips debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer in 2010, which was also the year she appeared (in a role debut) as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with the Hawaii Opera Theater. Since then she’s performed to tremendous accolades throughout North America and...

Many New Yorkers know painter and illustrator Elissa Gore from her paintings depicting the natural beauty of Inwood (viewable on her blog at www.elissagore.net) or from the many plein air sessions she has led in Inwood Hill Park. Elissa has been painting professionally for over twenty-five years, and today her work hangs in many private homes and over seventy public collections. In this episode of...

This episode of Inwood Art Works On Air Live N’ Local welcomes Inwood's Kirsten and Keith Chambers. Kirsten is a soprano who joined the Metropolitan Opera first as a cover of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde and then, this past season, for Die Walküre. Kirsten is known especially for her portrayal of the title role of Salome, which she’s sung not only at the Metropolitan Opera but at the Opera Hong Ko...

Desiree Abeyta wrote, directed, and produced An Invitation To Tea , a recipient of this year's inaugural Inwood Art Works Filmmaker Fund Award. Her work reflects a love of magical realism, and she’s one of very few filmmakers setting out to explore that rich literary tradition from a feminine perspective. Follow Desiree on Instagram at @chatonjolie.

Kevin Delaney is a veteran of New York's post-punk and singer-songwriter scenes, but these days he writes and records, as he puts it, “on a solitary iMac in the wilds of northern Manhattan.” Kevin sings, and he plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, bass, and harmonica. He even fakes it on keyboards. He’s recorded two albums, Pause for Effect and Himalayan Moon, which Smother Magazine call...

You may not know it, but you’ve seen Jeannine Jones’ work as a prop designer on Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, and Late Night With Seth Myers, not to mention Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mel Brooks’ The Producers, and Jersey Boys. She’s also an accomplished playwright, screenwriter, director, and a founding member of Dora Mae Productions. Watch for new Inwood Art Works On Air episodes! Live N' L...

Founded in 2005, NYC-based Double Entendre Music Ensemble is a collective of like-minded musicians devoted to adventurous exploration of the double reed repertoire. Noted for its first-rate musicianship and creativity, the Ensemble illuminates classics, revives neglected music, and commissions new works for these soulful instruments. Led by Kathryn Englehardt, the ensemble performs everywhere from...

Samantha Echo is a singing, songwriting fairy/abomination who was allegedly called into existence as the bastard child of an acid-induced one-night-stand between Leonard Cohen and one of the Disney Princesses (it probably happened at the Chelsea Hotel). She and her music have been described as "somewhere between dangerous and whimsy" (Jack Murray, Unknown Nobodies), meaning that she has fairy wing...

Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few , A Great Wilderness , Rest , Pocatello , Lewiston , Clarkston , and most recently, The Healing and The Harvest . He is the recipien...

Jamie Reynolds is a Canadian pianist, keyboardist and composer who has lived in New York City since 2005. He graduated with honors from the University of Toronto in 2004, where he studied with David Braid, Mike Murley, Phil Nimmons, and many others. Jamie moved to New York in 2005 when he was awarded multiple Canada Council grants to study privately with Fred Hersch and Craig Taborn. He has also r...

An award-winning writer, producer and actor, Adam Elliott’s short films and web series have screened all over the US and internationally. He served as a staff writer on the web series ‘The Age of Insecurity’ (Winner, LA Comedy Festival) and ‘Little Italy, Los Angeles’ (Winner, HollyShorts). His short documentary about his father, ‘Harv’ won the 2017 Greenwich Village Film Festival and 2018 Inwood...

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