Beauty & The 'Burg: Recent Episodes
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Each Wednesday @ 6pm, Beauty & The ‘Burg will focus on the Cultural life of St Petersburg; including culinary, visual and theatre arts. It will be an exciting way to showcase our talented residents and share what we love about “The ‘Burg” with the world!
Beauty and the Burg featuring the Museum of Fine Arts Team:Kristen A. Shepherd, Stanton Thomas, Jorge Vidal, Rush Jenkins | Episode 164
La Lucha is a Tampa Bay-based trio that consists of three best friends from three different parts of the world; Colombia, Mexico & United States. Their music ventures boldly into a wide variety of musical styles, offering an appealing and fun mix of genres under the jazz umbrella. The combination of their musical versatility and varied musical influences makes for compelling virtuosic performances. Through an engaging stage presence and high level of interaction, La Lucha brings the audience into their world.
Each member of the trio has extensive national and international performance experience, including a tour of Italy and France with performances at the “Umbria Jazz Festival” and “Jazz a Juan” in Juan Les Pins.
La Lucha was awarded Creative Loafing’s “Best of the Bay Jazz Ensemble” in 2013, 2014 & 2015; the “Think Small to Think Big Grant,” by Creative Pinellas; featured presenters at TEDxTampa Bay (2014), TEDxUSF (2015) & TEDxDouglasville (2017); and were honored by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, to present a multimedia project raising awareness for Alzheimer’s disease.
Their debut album, A Cup of Fuzzy Water was released in 2009 and their second self-titled album was released in June 2012. Their third album, Standards, Not-Standards featuring vocalist Jun, was released in January 2015 on Blue Line Music and their newest album Pa’ Lante featuring the trio in September 2018 on Fuzzy Water Music.
Album Release Concert La Lucha is performing an album release concert at The Palladium Theater on Friday, September 14th at 8 pm. Tickets are available online at MyPalladium.org CD & Digital Orders Pa’ Lante will be available everywhere music is sold online beginning Friday, September 14th. You can purchase a CD on their website at www.LaLuchaMusic.com and listen online at iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, and many other online markets.
Join Cindy Stovall, Erik Remmel and Bert Mort live from the Mahaffey Theater for Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay 2016 Awards.
On the next Beauty & The 'Burg, the "Artsy Smartsy" Podcast: You'll all be excited to know that Alex Harris is my guest!
He is a stellar musician, vocalist, poet, community and teen arts advocate, and so much more. You've heard his beautiful voice and know his talent. Now learn about his amazing journey, past, present and future, and how to get tickets to his upcoming show, Alex Harris | I Got Soul Show at the The Palladium at St. Petersburg College on Sept 16th. You'll be amazed at what you learn. He even sings his chart topping hit on our show!
On the next Beauty & The Burg, the "Artsy Smartsy" podcast: On location in NYC, we catch up with ex-"Pete"riot, Stefanie Maiya Lehmann. Another PCCA alum, Stefanie has made an incredible career at the largest performing arts destination in the world, Lincoln Center!! It's a fascinating interview with a beautiful, spectacularly smart & successful child of the 'Burg. Thanks for helping me spread a little #LocalLoveWorldwide
Take a look backstage to see what goes in to creating great theatre ON stage! Stage manager, Miriam Rochford and award winning Lighting Designer, Mike Wood talk about what it takes to bring a show to life.
Community Arts leader and executive director of Creative Pinellas, Mitzi Jo Gordon talks about resources, funding and the growth of the arts in The 'Burg! She is a wealth of great info and an amazing advocate. Listen in...
This is a great episode featuring Noel Rochford of the ska band, UNRB. Check out their great sound on this episode that features several songs from the newly released EP, "Collateral Jammage."
This episode features wonderful actress and playwright, Katie Berger. She is a regular at freeFall Theatre Co and also their blogger. We get to hear several songs from her show, "Full. The Musical" and learn about her career, personal challenges and triumphs.
What can any of us, who love theatre, say about Matthew McGee that hasn't already been said?? We know him, love him and look forward to each new production he is involved with, on stage or behind the scenes. Beauty & The 'Burg has the distinct pleasure of having Matt live in studio on Wednesday, September 10th at 6pm on Life Improvement Radio, and I know this is an interview you don't want to miss!! Join us.
Mo Venouziou from LocalShops1 stops by to chat about their organization and how they help support the local community.
Patricia Filomeno of Ink Graphics is the guest and shares about her art and how she uses it to create successful marketing campaigns for her clients.
Unique, one of a kind, abstract art works that balance the organic with the industrial, creating a harmonious relationship between Man and Nature.