FunkZone Podcast
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Episode 060 Raul Midon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...