Episode 89 - Tim Donnelly, Producer, Writer, Founder/Partner Sea.Hear. Now

It's time for the 2019 Christmas Episode of the MulletCast! Why is this the Christmas episode? Because it answers a very important question - What do you get the town that has everything for Christmas? Why you give it a world-class music festival over two days on the beach ofcourse! Tim Donnelly is the son of a third generation Elizabeth, NJ firefighter, and his bro is the 4th generation. Tim grew up the youngest of four around the jersey shore and was into music, hoops, boogie boarding, activism, and writing among other things. Tim worked on the Seaside boardwalk, was a badge checker, and a lifeguard. His experience as a badge checker has helped him evade his fellow checkers and to this day he has never owned a proper beach badge despite walking area beaches like a Kiss guitarist (that's "Frehley" for the kids out there). A piece Tim wrote about a drowning victim lead to his work with Body Boarding magazine and eventually a gig as the music editor at Surfer mag. Tim also did important work with the Surfrider Foundation, eventually bringing a chapter back to the Jersey Shore. Tim turned these experiences into working with some of the world's biggest bands at some of the world's best music festivals like Lollapalooza, Woodstock 99, Bonnaroo, and more, and he has helped friends, family, and strangers alike rebuild after Katrina and Sandy. In this episode you will hear about the early Sea.Hear Now that lived on the Asbury boardwalk and how Tim and his friend Danny Clinch went out and made Sea.Hear.Now the killer festival it is now...with a little inadvertent help from Bruce Springsteen along the way! For all you wiseasses out there that are going to comment on my shirt - that's right, I had a garbage can and a camera in the studio and was stealing any signs I could find about the 2020 Sea. Hear. Now lineup. All I want for Christmas is to be standing on the beach of Asbury Park next September on a moonlit night with my eyes closed while an epic Trey Anastasio solo rains down from the heavens over the Atlantic, but despite my sign stealing antics, Tim offered zero clues about next year's lineup. Whattaya say fellas, can we make this happen?! Get all the latest on Sea.Hear.Now at www.seahearnowfestival.com and follow @seahearnow & @donnellysea