Three Song Stories

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-Dev...

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 sec...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

 Brent Crawford is the Managing Director for Busey Bank’s Wealth Management Group Southwest Florida. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 foundatio...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, sound engineer, and electronic music pioneer who might be best known for his work with Stevie Wonder in the early '70s on a string of award-winning albums, like Music of My Mind , Talking Book , Innervisions , and Fulfillingness's First Finale . In 1980, Margouleff produced DEVO’s Freedom of Choice album which included Whip It . Robert h...

J Robert Houghtaling is a BMI writer with film score credits on National TV shows including "Big Bang Theory," "Madame Secretary,” as well as on shows on the Travel Channel and Hallmark Channel. He’s appeared on folk stages around Florida as a fiddle player with the likes of John McEuen and Chief Jim Billie, and he’s warmed up shows for the Charlie Daniels Band, Doug Kershaw, Nitty Gritty Dirt Ban...

Terry Tincher has been involved in almost every aspect of the arts here in Southwest Florida: music & theater, and he’s been a gallery & bar owner. He's owned Space 39 and The Tincture Gallery in downtown Fort Myers. He now works as a consultant to the Alliance for the Arts and represents several national and regional artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeremey Hunsicker was the frontman for one of the most popular Journey cover bands in the USA, called Frontiers, and in 2007 he was even offered the role of lead singer with the actual band Journey. His songwriting contributions earned him a Platinum RIAA sales award for the band’s 2008 release, Revelations. Jeremey’s life and career has spanned everything from sales and operations in the trucking...

Sheena Brook is a singer and songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was selected for Season 12 of NBC’s The Voice and since that appearance she’s moved on to partner with several Multi-Platinum Songwriters and Artists. She’s also the founder of The F.E.M. Collective, a nonprofit that hosts events in support of women and equality in the industry. Sheena will also be one of the featured performers...

Thomas Lockyear is manager of the Museum of the Everglades in Everglades City, Florida. He made his living as a musician from the late 80s until the early 2000s, first as a keyboardist for the band My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and then as the frontman and songwriter for the Electric Hellfire club. They toured extensively in the U.S. and recorded five full-length albums. He then put music asi...

Megan Borowski is a Senior Meteorologist for the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network, headquartered at the UF. Megan completed her B.S. in Meteorology from Rutgers University and graduated at the top of her class. She was formerly a freelance meteorologist for ABC News in New York where she produced content for Good Morning America’s Ginger Zee and Rob Marciano. Megan’s prior work also interned...

Michael Owen is an award-winning photographer who has shot weddings, apparel, food, and fashion for individuals and commercial clients like the Boston Red Sox and Marissa Collections. After getting his Masters, Michael became teaching Photo II at FGCU, and also shot for the Naples Scout Guide for two years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Hennessey is host of In the Flamingo Lounge with Rockabilly Greg - a podcast that focuses on musicians and music industry professionals from Buffalo and Western New York. He’s also a vocalist with a folk duo called "Old Friends", and has performed as a guest vocalist with the Andrews Sisters tribute act “Buffalo Dolls” and in local musical theater productions. Greg has also served on the Boar...

Jonathan Lawrence is a classically trained jazz violinist and fiddle player who began studying violin when he was 9. He utilizes his skills as an electric violinist, guitarist, vocalist, pianist, and loop station artist to perform both original songs and new takes on Americana covers. His album is called The Lonely Warrior which is available on most streaming platforms.  He also teaches general mu...

Mia Borders is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who's become a perennial figure in the uptown New Orleans music scene. She's performed at House of Blues New Orleans, Essence Festival, Brazil’s Bourbon Street Music Festival, Santa Cruz Blues Fest, Chattanooga’s NightFall, Voice of the Wetlands, Memphis’s Levitt Shell, Long’s Park Amphitheater, and The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Her cata...

Phil Roy has written songs for some of the greats, including Ray Charles, Aaron Neville, and Joe Cocker, and Mavis Staples, and songs for two Academy Award-winning films: Leaving Las Vegas and As Good As It Gets . He co-wrote one of his songs, Melt , with his long-time friend, Nicolas Cage. Phil was born and raised in Philadelphia, and attended Berklee College of Music as a guitar major. It was ar...

Scott Carter is Co-creator and Executive Producer Love & Respect with Killer Mike  on PBS, and was a writer for Politically Incorrect hosted by Bill Maher on Comedy Central, and then writer and producer for Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO for its first 16 seasons. Scott’s podcast Ye Gods! with Scott Carter launched in February of 2023. On it, he discusses personal faith and ethics with a dive...

Dr. Jonathan Harrison obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Leicester in the UK in 2006 and then migrated to Florida that same year. He has taught as an adjunct instructor since 2012 at FGCU, Florida Southwestern State University, and Hodges University. Jonathan has written extensively about segregation in Fort Myers and contributed to the WGCU documentary With a Made Up Mind , whic...

James Priestner is the frontman of the Canadian band Rare Americans . They’ve released four albums and an EP and their songs, each paired with narrative-driven animated video, have garnered them a Billboard 100 album, a JUNO award for their most listened to track to date, “Brittle Bones Nicky,” more than 500 million streams, and more than 875K YouTube subscribers.  The band just released the first...

David Oquendo worked in business and retail management more than a decade, and decided decided to turn his passion for film and television in his actual job. Since then, has worked on productions for CMT, PBS, Oxygen, the Travel Channel, and the El Rey Networks, and is now at the helm of WGCU’s video productions for TV and web. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Kealing is a journalist who spent most of his three decade long career at WESH-TV in Orlando. He’s won four Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award, and has appeared on Dateline NBC , the Today Show , CBS This Morning , and has appeared as a guest on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and C-SPAN. The author of four non-fiction books, Bob’s research led to the establishment of the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando,...

John Donvan has been host and moderator of Open to Debate (recently changed from Intelligence Squared US ) since 2008. John is also an author and four-time Emmy Award winning journalist who during his career reported for ABC, CNN, and PBS, including multi-year postings in Moscow, London, Jerusalem, and Amman, and he spent one term as chief White House correspondent for ABC News. His 2016 book, "In...