FunkZone Podcast

FunkZone Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 060 Raul Midon
February 03, 2016

Amazing guitarist, singer-songwriter, and mouth-trumpeter! Today on the show we have jazz guitarist, soul singer, soul songwriter, and mouth trumpeter extraordinare Raul Midon. Raul was in town recently for the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, brought...

Episode 059: Jonathan Crow
January 27, 2016

Artist, writer, etc. Jonathan Crow photographed in his Los Angeles, Ca home. Artist of Veeptopus, who put octopuses on vice presidents' heads, as well as filmmaker and writer! Today on the show we have artist and fillmmaker and writer Jonathan...

Episode 058 Azeem Ward
January 20, 2016

Up and coming jazz/classical/hiphop flautist and viral superstar! Azeem Ward is the unlikeliest of Internet sensations, but the flautist who just graduated UCSB, who plays not just jazz and classical, but hip hop and flute beatboxing, became one last...

Episode 057 Kate Quigley
January 13, 2016

Stand-up comedian and host of Playboy's Undercover Kate Quigley is a stand-up comedian and currently host of Playboy TV's Undercover, where she investigates sexual fetishes. We talk about that, her penchant for hanging out, and even performing sets...

Episode 056: Neal Crosbie
January 05, 2016

Zen cowboy painter and musician. So this week I sit down with an hour chat with artist, musician and cartoonist Neal Crosbie. Back when I was a lad, Neal Crosbie had an alternative comic in one of the weekly papers here in Santa Barbara, these odd...

Episode 55 Julie Joyce
December 29, 2015

Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Contemporary Art Curator Since 2008, Julie Joyce has been bringing the best in contemporary art to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, while also including Santa Barbara artists in that list. Under her curation, she's...

Episode 054: Mary-Austin Klein
December 22, 2015

Realist landscape painter of the Californian desert. I met Mary-Austin Klein at the Sullivan Goss show "American Details" where I first saw her amazing paintings of places like Mojave, Death Valley, and Palm Springs, where I love to vacation. I...

Episode 053 Jonathan Fox
December 16, 2015

Executive Director of Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara's resident professional company. Since Jonathan Fox took over directorship of Ensemble Theater after the late Robert Grand Weiss' retirement in 2006, he's injected a lot of daring and...

Episode 052 Mitchell Kriegman
December 08, 2015

Creator of Clarissa Explains it All, writer, director, and producer. It was Mitchell who reached out to me a few months ago, reminding me that in 2013 he had reviewed an art show I had curated at the Arts Fund of Santa Barbara. He had a book he had...

Episode 051 Live at MichaelKate 091815
September 23, 2015

A live chat with painters Iben Vestergaard and Tom Post Another successful Funk Zone Art Walk and another successful talk at MichaelKate! Serious listening pose!! Iben Vestergaard Jan Ziegler--who you will hear mentioned in the recording--curated...