Y Arts Podcast

Shelby Newsome is a writer and lead bookseller at local bookstore, Curious Iguana. Writing has been a part of Newsome's life and this development led her to pursue a career as a flash fiction writer. Through her trials of submissions and years of practice, she is a determined short-story artist who has found and is curating a community also for fellow writers. Not only in aiding folks at Curious I...

Scott Marceron began his music career at 12 years old as a bass player in his neighborhood. His musical passion led him to learn on his own how to book and play shows, manage his music business, and other behind the scenes challenges musicians face. With this in mind, and inspiration from "School of Rock", in 2010 he and his wife founded their own school, "Let There Be Rock" in Frederick, MD to pr...

Tad Achey is a musician who is fully engaged with the Frederick community. He talks about his journey as a drummer playing with his band DaMood and performing his own project, "Zootu". Tad illustrates his recent experience performing on Carroll Creek for Alive at 5 and the collaboration with others during the set. The musician promotes a sense of self and grounding as an artist and human.

Tina Harper is a proud mother and artist local to the Frederick area. With a background in preschool teaching and art, she designed a place for people to tap into their inner creativity and paint! She encourages everyone, even those without a "creative bone in their body" to enjoy the services her business and studio, Dream Free Art, provides. Dream Free Art grants parties a chance to splatter pai...

Maddie "Maddog" Davis is an event coordinator for local Frederick music shows. Being heavily involved with the Techno/House music culture of D.C., she aims to stretch this art over to Frederick County. Basing her shows in Downtown Frederick's local bar, Cafe 611, not only does Davis organize the performers of the showings, she also creates and organizes the art decor of these events. Davis and her...

Sophia Townsend is an artist. As well as a student at Hood College majoring in Art Therapy and Minoring in Graphic Design. She also works as an intern at the Frederick Arts Council. 

Maggie Kirkpatrick is a self-taught photographer from the Frederick area who has been in exhibitions in town. They won an award at the Delaplaine Arts Center in 2017 and one at Area 31 in 2018. They're focus is on constructing little worlds to connect emotions together; creating evocative and meaningful work.

Sarah Philabaum is a passionate multi-hyphenate artist. She is a director, choreographer, performer, teacher, podcast host and most importantly a mother. She is the dance coordinator at the Y Arts Center where she teaches and organizes the dance recitals among other things.  

Elizabeth Chung is a native of Hong Kong, China. She studied Public Health at University of Hawaii in Honolulu and gained additional education at Penn State. For the past 45 years she has dedicated her work to minority health equity, social justice and the local immigrant community. She founded The Asian American Center of Frederick and currently sits as the Executive Director. In addition she cha...

Justin Arroyo: Justin Arroyo has been making instrumental hip-hop for the past six years. He gained his inspiration by surrounding himself with music, oftentimes through his parents while growing up. He was exposed to a lot of soul and old school hip-hop. Throughout the years he gained a deep appreciation for music which led him to start creating his own. 

Shiloh Young is a local musician who has lived in Frederick their whole life. They play the guitar, sing and write songs. They are part of a band called Enclosure. They have performed with the Let There Be Rock School and various other groups around town.

Jeff Cosgrove is a decorated drummer and a father of two. He has been playing music his whole life. He moved to Frederick nine years ago. Jeff is a free jazz drummer and has released multiple albums and singles. 

Elizabeth Chase who is a trained opera singer and a songwriter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She now lives in Frederick, Maryland. She is a Catholic Cantor and Country/Pop artist who talks about her story as a musician and performer.

James Connors is a Frederick local. He is an elementary school art teacher and sculptor. He graduated with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He graduated with an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. James has been showing his work at numerous galleries ever since.

Bill Watson is a visual artist born and raised in Frederick County. He is a fine artist who dabbles in painting, sculptural work, mural work, illustration and animation. On the show we will be speaking about his latest installation at the Y Arts Center.

Music has always been the love of Ari Voxx's life. Her early influences were artists like The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Micheal Jackson. She gravitated toward singing after performing in various choral groups. Despite her roots being in soul, gospel and classical music she discovered her love for rock and new wave music growing up. Ariana (Ari Voxx) has been part of multiple...