Tasty Brew Music

As has happened quite often in the past 10 years or so, my curation of private showcase rooms at the Folk Alliance International Conference has yielded connections that provide continuing collaboratio...

9 Jan 202528min

Although it has been decades, I DO remember how challenging and isolating it can be to move away during your 20’s from your hometown to accompany and support a spouse that is pursuing a promising job ...

25 Nov 202444min

Kate McDonnell has captivated audiences all over the world with her award-winning songwriting, her unusual upside down and backwards guitar style, and her crystalline voice.  Kate was in the Heartland...

17 Nov 202428min

I am honored to be on Radio Promotor Angela Backstrom’s contact list for new music being released by the amazing cadre of Americana/Roots Artists she represents.  Angela reached out to me to arrange a...

11 Nov 202426min

Savanna, daughter of the Heartland’s Flint Hills, returns to share with me new music making its radio debut on my turn as host of MidCoast Live! On KKFI…a weekly live performance radio show that welco...

14 Okt 202454min

Zachary Scott Kline came into my consciousness thanks to an email from Nashville songwriter, Henry Conlon, a former guest on my Tasty Brew Music Radio Show and Podcast.  Zachary’s power trio that incl...

2 Okt 202444min

I love hosting songwriters on the radio and when it is an artist I have a personal kinship and history with…even better.  I was introduced to Jesse Harris and the Gypsy Sparrows shortly after I starte...

15 Aug 202456min

Like so many musical discoveries in my Tasty Brew orbit, Heather Pierson came to my attention from Mike Paget, Director behind the Green Guitar Folk House Music Series in Lenexa, Kansas.  He discovere...

12 Aug 202435min