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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 19, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast", the grand finale for Season Four!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you Part Two of the expansive Secondhand Talent interview of legendary Lighting & Production Designer, Founder of E26 Design, Marc Janowitz!!!

Marc Janowitz  has been in the entertainment industry for over 25 years, with a robust catalog of artists, bands, comedians and more with whom he has worked throughout those years. His path to becoming a lighting and production designer was, well - a direct path. When he was eleven years old, his keen technical and artistic ability led him to be enlisted to lead the production and lighting of his school play. The die was cast and the story’s end has not yet been told.

Combining his aesthetic acumen with a practical understanding of production, Marc brings a myriad of diverse skills that guarantees a unique and successful approach to each project.

Marc's passion for design led him to become the Founder of and Chief Designer at E26 Design.  ​For over a decade, Marc collaborated with the critically-acclaimed and ground-breaking organization Blue Man Group, where he served on the design team for nearly all of their projects and special events worldwide. In New York theater, Marc was involved with numerous downtown and off-Broadway groups including “Camp Wanatachi”, “Kiki Baby”, “Moisty the Snowman” and “Dai”. He also has served as Resident Lighting Designer for the Forbidden Broadway franchise for 12 years, Resident Designer for Theatre by the Blind and Resident Designer for Bridge Club Productions.

Additionally, E26 designs the lighting and production for numerous touring musical artists including: My Morning Jacket, Trey Anastasio Band, The Lumineers, TV on the Radio, Passion Pit, Girl Talk, The Decemberists., and more. Marc also has extensive experience with his so-called “sweet spot” - the one-hour comedy special, including for Adam Sandler, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, and, at the time of this taping “Off With His Head” by Hasan Minaj and “Dad Man Walking” with Seth Myers just recently debuted! 

Website: e26design.com

IG: @e26design  

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 18, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast", the almost-grand finale for Season Four!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you Part One of the expansive Secondhand Talent interview of legendary Lighting & Production Designer, Founder of E26 Design, Marc Janowitz!!!

Marc Janowitz  has been in the entertainment industry for over 25 years, with a robust catalog of artists, bands, comedians and more with whom he has worked throughout those years. His path to becoming a lighting and production designer was, well - a direct path. When he was eleven years old, his keen technical and artistic ability led him to be enlisted to lead the production and lighting of his school play. The die was cast and the story’s end has not yet been told.

Combining his aesthetic acumen with a practical understanding of production, Marc brings a myriad of diverse skills that guarantees a unique and successful approach to each project.

Marc's passion for design led him to become the Founder of and Chief Designer at E26 Design.  ​For over a decade, Marc collaborated with the critically-acclaimed and ground-breaking organization Blue Man Group, where he served on the design team for nearly all of their projects and special events worldwide. In New York theater, Marc was involved with numerous downtown and off-Broadway groups including “Camp Wanatachi”, “Kiki Baby”, “Moisty the Snowman” and “Dai”. He also has served as Resident Lighting Designer for the Forbidden Broadway franchise for 12 years, Resident Designer for Theatre by the Blind and Resident Designer for Bridge Club Productions.

Additionally, E26 designs the lighting and production for numerous touring musical artists including: My Morning Jacket, Trey Anastasio Band, The Lumineers, TV on the Radio, Passion Pit, Girl Talk, The Decemberists., and more. Marc also has extensive experience with his so-called “sweet spot” - the one-hour comedy special, including for Adam Sandler, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, and, at the time of this taping “Off With His Head” by Hasan Minaj and “Dad Man Walking” with Seth Myers just recently debuted! 

Website: e26design.com

IG: @e26design  

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 9, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you our expansive interview with Sam Baker, a.k.a. "Glitch Gatsby!

Building off of a lifelong love of jazz and blues, Glitch Gatsby brings together an anachronistic fusion of brass and bass, with live saxophone and visuals.

Now ten years into performing, he's held down residencies with Detroit's esteemed Theatre Bizarre and Ybor City, Tampa's biannual Steampunk Ball, as well as various spots at Electric Forest music festival, including the speakeasy and silent disco.

Finally breaking out solo, he's now founded the entertainment company Honest Age Productions, LLC. Their debut project, The Eagle's Nest performance stage and forest art walk at Harvest Fest, an emergent music festival in the greater Chicago area.

Website: glitchgatsby.com

IG: @glitchgatsby

YouTube:  @glitchgatsby4290  

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 8, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you Part One of the expansive and wide-ranging Secondhand Talent interview of Hank Osterhout!

Hank Osterhout is a musician, farmer, businessperson, and so much more, with a deep and true-blue passion for music and the arts. Hank is a well-known figure in the Emporia, KS local music scene as the founder of the Halfway to Everywhere Music Festival and Kansas Free For Arts. 

Hank strives to incorporate his attitude of excitement into his professional life by aligning himself with organizations, businesses, social groups or philosophical ideas that are consistent with the betterment of life for the people with whom he comes into contact. 

He’s worked behind the scenes at the Emporium Granada Theatre over the past few years, helping set up equipment and tech, and, in May 2024, Hank was appointed to the role of executive director at the Granada! 

The Emporia Granada Theatre: emporiagranada.com

Kansas Free For Arts: arthives.org/arthives/kansas-free-arts

The Emporia Gazette: emporiagazette.com/

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 7, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you our Part Two of our expansive interview with Caroline Herbster! Caroline is the artist & owner behind Rising Tide Art Studio. 

She is best known for creating live art at concerts and festivals, including (but not limited to!) the likes of Goose, Dead & Co, Phish, Billy Strings, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, and Hulaween Music Festival at Suwanee National Park in Live Oak, FL.

Caroline’s live watercolor illustrations and drawings capture the energy and essence of the music and crowd at shows, resulting in a personal and collective tangible memory of nearly every show she sees. 

Website: risingtideartstudio.com

IG: @risingtideartstudio 

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 6, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you our Part One of our expansive interview with Caroline Herbster! Caroline is the artist & owner behind Rising Tide Art Studio. 

She is best known for creating live art at concerts and festivals, including (but not limited to!) the likes of Goose, Dead & Co, Phish, Billy Strings, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, and Hulaween Music Festival at Suwanee National Park in Live Oak, FL.

Caroline’s live watercolor illustrations and drawings capture the energy and essence of the music and crowd at shows, resulting in a personal and collective tangible memory of nearly every show she sees. 

Website: risingtideartstudio.com

IG: @risingtideartstudio 

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With "Secondhand Talent", we want to devote a platform to taking moments to shine the spotlight on those that manage the spotlights. We want to use this platform to highlight some of our incredible colleagues in the industry whose names you might otherwise never hear. Thank you for joining us - come along, stay a while!

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 5, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you our expansive interview with Scherre Tucker, aka Shady Business. "Scherre is an independent merch slanger, bassist, stagehand, and positive vibes technician. Since 2011, she has been involved with live music in one capacity or another. From playing bass in bands local to her beloved Tulsa, to traveling with national acts as a merch seller, to running large stages at various independent festivals, Shady has made a dedicated effort to keep herself surrounded by what makes her happy: music and the joy it brings.

In 2014 she moved to Eureka Springs, AR to assist her mentor, the legendary Ma Dank, with day-to-day tasks. Ma’s legacy continues to be a guiding light in Shady’s work ethic and overall outlook on life. These two share a zest for life that is infectious and rare. Although she passed
away in 2020, Ma travels with Shady to every show she attends.

A brief hiatus from music in 2016 saw Scherre protesting for human and water rights at Standing Rock. Never one to sit idly by, she is always on the move, and always working hard to fiercely defend what she believes in; fairness, equality, and joy.

After a difficult year of loss, life-changing surgery, and introspection in 2020, Shady resolved herself to make the most of every moment, and pursue her passion of travel and music. Since then, she has worked full time selling merch on the road with many bands. Most of these bands
are in the bluegrass/folk/roots scene (which is not the type of music you'll typically hear in her headphones). She enjoys seeing new parts of the country, meeting new people, and sharing in the joy that the ever-present music brings her and others. Shady is as sweet as they come, but furiously protective of her people, and she will cut you.

She is a well-oiled machine that runs on sausage biscuits, menthol cigarettes, and postcard hunting. 

Has van. Will travel. Available for hire."

*The above description was written by Shady's dear friend Jarrod Starling, frontman of Carrie Nation And The Speakeasy out of Wichita, KS. Check them out at cnsict.com!!!

Shady’s Sound Selects:

Eric Howell: erichowelloriginal.com
JrSOAPbox: jrsoapbox.com
Johnny Mullenax Band: johnnymullenaxband.com
Rachel Ammons: rachelammonsmusic.com

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 4, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you our expansive interview with David Kozin. David is the founder of no sides records no sides records is a Chicago DIY record label started in 1997. Label CEO David Kozin likes refer to it as a "mini-major" label because the vast array of major bands and artists on the roster, coming from many different genres and also many different parts of the United States and abroad. Early releases from the No Sides record label were from Portland Oregon spazz-punk legends Tuman's Water, Detroit Michigan hooch parlor cabaret duo Terror At The Opera, Chicago nu wave of superband Miss High Hell, and Twig Harbor of experimental electronics duo Nautical Almanac.

In 2003, the label released the VGM mixtape "#8" compilation CD, showcasing chiptune and video game music bands and composers from around the world. In 2005, David began full-time studies at Northeastern Illinois University and No Sides records releases started to become more infrequent, less professionally produced, and with many of the regional and national music distributors going out of business in rapid succession at the time, they became much more difficult to obtain outside of Chicago. After years of school, post-grad poverty, near feral insanity, bed bugs, and a book about Ike Turner published in 2018, the label was basically done and what was left was a stone's throw away from the trash heap.

Suddenly, sadly, in January 2022 came the tragic announcement of the death of the frontman of Miss High Heel, and, more famously, To Live And Shave In LA, Tom Smith. When he passed away from cancer, it shook the avant-garde music community and shattered the ice within David and No Sides Records was reborn. By the years end, the label put out 14 releases on cassettes and CDs, which is more releases in one year than any of its 5-year period in its prior history.

Cut to now and the label will be releasing no less than 18 records in 2024,  including albums by: one-man-band performer The Lonesome Organist. Chicago Punk legends Silver Reviews, free-jazz saxophonist Paul Flaherty, classical pianist Charles Joseph Smith and dungeon synth slayer Alkilith. No Sides Records can be found online at their Bandcamp link below:

No Sides Records Bandcamp

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 3, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you the Secondhand Talent interview of juggler and soundboard extraordinaire Tim Dingus!
 
Juggling, Magic and Comedy, the trio of stage and screen that just keeps giving. Tim “Juggling” Dingus has mastered the art of mixing all three, and with some help from friends, he’s showing the world what exactly a juggler is capable of. Spoiler alert: There isn’t much one can do once they’ve spent most of their time and energy learning to juggle, but hey - it’s fun to watch!

Tim is well prepared for roles both on the stage, and behind the curtain. In Tim's show "Tricks for Friends", enter a world of wonder, merriment and laughter where everyone walks away a part of the experience. This is the experience where you are a part of the show! Alternatively, if you’re on the stage, allow Tim to support your needs as an artist. He has worked in a number of historic venues, and for multiple award winning musical groups.

It's time to light the lights, and turn up the band! He is available to either entertain your audience as a magician or juggler, or enhance their entertainment experience as a live sound engineer. That's right, he's no one trick pony!!!

Website | IG: @timdingii

Lawrence Busker Fest | Kansas City Juggling Club

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2, of "Secondhand Talent: The Podcast"!!! We're so happy we're here and so, so incredibly grateful for all of your love and support along the way. On behalf of all of us here at Secondhand Talent, Steiner & Steener - WE LOVE YOU, FRANDS!!!

This week we have the pleasure of releasing to you Part Two of the expansive and wide-ranging Secondhand Talent interview of drummer legend and extraordinaire: the one-and-only Ron Bruner Sr.!!! 
 
Ron Bruner Sr., a native of Compton California, is one of the most notable drummers on the L.A. freelance music scene. He has over 40 years of live, session and studio drumming and has played and / or recorded with The Temptations, Gladys Knight, the Supremes, jazzer Gary Bartz and Diana Ross - to name just a few. Ron started the Miles Davis 70's tribute band “Strange Jazz Universe” some 17 years ago, with the understanding that “Music is ever evolving” - something Miles taught us and that Ron carries with him. 

Ron Sr. also had his own band, Chameleon, a “disco fusion” group who in 1979 dropped an album on Elektra Records that was produced by longtime James Brown trombonist Fred Wesley. He is the quintessential “veteran of the scene” who turned his focus towards the future. His 3 sons, Ron Jr., Stephen a.k.a. “Thundercat”, and Jameel, are now each award-acclaimed musicians in their own rights. 

Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/1194839-Ron-Bruner

IG: @ronbrunersr ; @strange_jazz_universe

Joining us for this interview is the legendary Pam Bruner herself! Pam is a  Detroit, MI, and studied at Michigan State University, as well as The St. Stephen’s Bible College and The Apostle Frederick Price Ministry Training Center (both in Los Angeles, CA). Sensitive to the many urban problems that plague many young women today, overcoming family background of suicide and mental illness, Pam is now married to husband Ronald Bruner Sr. and is an accomplished author, musician and pastoral figure. Pam is best known for her Gold Flute, her YouTube videos and her Grammy Award wining & nominated children, Ronald Bruner Junior (Drums), Stephen "THUNDERCAT" Bruner (Bass), & Jameel “KINTARO” Bruner (Piano).

Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3YSLpLuX0FlJy1mvYo7e5x

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With "Secondhand Talent", we want to devote a platform to taking moments to shine the spotlight on those that manage the spotlights. We want to use this platform to highlight some of our incredible colleagues in the industry whose names you might otherwise never hear. Thank you for joining us - come along, stay a while!

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