Three Song Stories

Seth Singleton is a fiction writer who got his start in the world of comics as the lead writer for a children’s comic strip series called Greedy Greg that teaches kids that greed can ruin anything, no matter how good it starts off. Seth has contributed to projects including Comics Lit Vol. 1, Anachronistic Comics, Spellcasters MLM, and The Tragic Nerds serialized comic which he makes with illustra...

Eric D. Johnson is a singer and songwriter and composer best-known as the guy behind the indie-folk-rock band Fruit Bats which he started as a four-track side project while living in Chicago in the late 90s and playing in indie-rock bands like I Rowboat and Califone. He relocated to the Pacific Northwest and Fruit Bats was signed to Perishable Records and began releasing albums, starting with the...

Desmond Meade is a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow; a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and having been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. He's also’s author of the 2020 book “Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens.” Desmond is President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition -- the organization that led the successful e...

Dan Mangan is a Vancouver, BC-based musician. Dan has played Jimmy Kimmel Live, Glastonbury, and sold out Massey Hall, as well as scored soundtracks for television and feature film. He is also a co-founder of Side Door, a marketplace platform connecting artists with alternative venue spaces for in-person & online shows. Dan has won 2 JUNO Awards and is thrice Polaris Music Prize-nominated for...

Jack Bishop is senior content advisor and tasting lab expert at America's Test Kitchen. He was part of the original team that launched the show in 1993. He grew up in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey and studied Literature at Yale University and worked in publishing in New York City out of college before joining the staff of Cook's Magazine in 1988. It morphed into Cook's Illustrated in 1993, and Americ...

Karyn Parsons is probably best known for playing Hilary on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Her character was, and is, truly beloved by fans around the U.S. and beyond. What her fans didn't know until 2005 was that Parsons was also a writer who spent quite a bit of time writing short fiction, and learning about history - particularly inspiring and empowering stories of African American achievement. On...

Emma Briggs Coleman (who performs and releases music under Emma Briggs) is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist from Fort Myers whose music is rooted in the timeless spirit of rock, folk, and blues. She performs more than 300 live shows a year throughout Southwest Florida, including being selected to perform at the 2025 Island Hopper Songwriter Fest and she’ll be back...

Tonya Todd is an author, actress, screenwriter, and director. She is also co-editor and contributor for Comics Lit Volume 1 , an essay collection about the value of comic books, and author of 52 Love: Weekly Love Lessons in Bite-Sized Bits . Her latest book, 52 Love: A Year of Romance – Volume One , is a collection of short stories inspired by the first thirteen tips in the original.  She also ser...

Ryan Lampa is co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit People Loving Nashville - it’s one of the city’s most recognizable grassroots nonprofits. What began as a simple desire to cook a few Thanksgiving meals for some of his unhoused neighbors in 2008 has grown into an organization that has not missed a single Monday night of outreach in the years since. Over the years, PLN has expanded far beyond emerg...

Sonya McCarter is a teacher, actress, director, singer and lover of all things theatre. For seven years Sonya guided aspiring actors through the CHANGE Acting Program - through it she helped adult actors of color bring their talent to the stage. She also served as Education Director and Community Engagement Coordinator at the Alliance. About three years ago she founded Bridging the Gap Center for...

Richard Bravo was born in Colombia but grew up in Jamaica, Queens during the height of 1980s graffiti culture so his earliest artistic instincts were shaped on the streets - and was fueled by the precision he observed in his printer father and patternmaker mother’s work. Over the next quarter-century, Richard designed fashion campaigns, directed scenic visuals, and crafted iconic imagery for hip-h...

Erika Burke Rossa is a writer, director, producer, and actor who, after reading the award-winning young adult novel Rain Reign by Anne M. Martin of Babysitter Club fame to her kid and was so deeply moved she reached out to Ms. Martin via Facebook to see if she could secure the rights to make it into a film…and that worked. After getting ahold of the rights, one thing started leading to another unt...

Nate Hegyi is host and senior producer of Outside/In from New Hampshire Public Radio…it’s a weekly podcast and radio show that’s been around since 2015…Nate’s hosted it for about four years. They describe it as “A show where curiosity and the natural world collide.” Their team explores a super wide variety of topics, from all around the world.  Before joining the Outside/In team Nate was a reporte...

Eric Lee is a middle school psychologist by day and a comic book artist by night. His first publication was a web comic called The Breakup Artist . He did all the artwork and writing himself, releasing an episode of it weekly from 2017 to 2021. He’s written continuously for Dark Knight News for more than 8 years now. It’s a dedicated, fan-run website and media outlet focused entirely on the DC Com...

Lachi Music is a New York City-based recording artist, songwriter, touring performer, record producer, author, and disability culture advocate. She grew up in a Nigerian-American home in Ithaca, New York and was born legally blind.  She’s now released five albums, including her latest, called Magnificent. It’s a children’s album that invites people of all-ages to embrace difference, and understand...

Gene Martin co-hosts the ACMA’s songwriters circle, and he’s leader of a 5 member band called The Floridians…they play clubs, adult day care and rehab centers, retirement homes and hospitals. Four of the five band members are in their 80s. Song 1: “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”...written by Pete Seeger in 1955, this version was recorded by the Kingston Trio and released in 1961.  https://youtu....

Chion Wolf is the host of Audacious on Connecticut Public Radio. It features  conversations with people who have uncommon or misunderstood experiences, conditions, or professions. Audacious is a three time Gracie Award winner - the Gracie Awards recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media and entertainment. She is also the host of Other People...

Stella Cole is a singer who has preformed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, and in 2023, she worked with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, touring the country, as well as Australia and New Zealand. She’s now released two albums independently with Grammy-winning producer Matt Pierson – one called simply “Stella Cole” and the other “Snow!” which featured a duet with Glee TV and Broadway...

Harold Balink - known as Chef Harold to many in SWFL - is a chef and restaurateur who has had a considerable influence on the culinary scene in this part of the world for more than three decades.  In 2002 he opened Harold’s on the Bay in downtown Fort Myers - then he partnered with the late chef and Fort Myers restaurateur Shannon Yates on Cru in the Bell Tower in South Fort Myers. Then, in 2015,...

Anthony Farina is the award-winning author of The Austen Chronicles Series - which he publishes under the moniker A.R. Farina. It’s a modern-day reimagining of Jane Austen’s novels, set in a shared universe, which are published by 4 Horsemen Publications. He’s also the creator, co-editor, and is a contributor to Comic Lit - it’s a collection of essays that delves into the literary merits of comic...

David Mayfield is the front man of The David Mayfield Parade. He's played in Cadillac Sky, and alongside The Avett Brothers and Mumford and Sons. David grew up playing bass and touring in a bus with his family’s bluegrass band. He started collecting national awards while still a teen for his dexterity on guitar and mandolin. He has also appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

John McEuen is a banjo, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle player, and a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He has made almost 50 albums, that have earned four platinum and five gold records, multiple Grammy Awards and nominations, CMA, and ACM awards.  John produced Steve Martin’s 2010 album, The Crow, which won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. He was inducted in 2017 to the American Banj...

Erica Rhodes is a comedian and actor who began acting as a young child - she actually performed on A Prairie Home Companion beginning at the age of 12 and did that for years - and she was serious about ballet and cello growing up. Her acting credits include Modern Family and Veep. She also voiced the scene-stealing character of “Dotty” in the hit Netflix animated series, A Tale Dark and Grimm. She...

Griogair Labhruidh is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose distinct musical stylings merge Scottish Gaelic language, music, and cosmology with modern influences like analog boom-bap, hip-hop and soul-inflected jazz, creating a truly unique sound. Griogair has gained international recognition for his voice as a featured soundtrack artist and songwriter on the TV series Out...

Doug Berman is Executive Producer of Car Talk ; and Creator and Benevolent Overlord of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! A two-time Peabody Award-winning producer, Doug began his career in news while still in college, serving as a production assistant for NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. It was at WBUR that Doug met and became friends with Tom & Ray Magliozzi brothers, who were doing...