Greg Vandy Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA

• Host and producer of The Roadhouse, a weekly three-hour specialty radio program exploring the many styles of American music, old and new, including many contemporary artists. www.kexp.org
• Cultivated a vibrant roots music scene in the Northwest, with a renewed interest in traditional music styles
• Write scripts, conduct interviews, create playlist, and maintain social networking
• Host in-studio performances and interviews
• Produce KEXP podcasts
• Produce original three-hour features programs such as:

Greater Seattle Area

• An on-line magazine for American music and related styles including the culture and lifestyle expressed within. A web-site extension of my KEXP radio show. Highly curated content. Components include feature writing.
• Blogging, writing, design, new music reviews, presenting showcase events
• Curate and manage the contributions from fellow writers, designers, and photographers
• Production of original Short Documentaries as seen on IFC, KEXP and accepted to film festivals such as SXSW, SIFF, LA Film Festival, Indie Grits, and others. Artists portraits include: o Frank Fairfieldo Blind Boy.
• Produced annual Harry Smith Tribute concerts in Seattle
• Curator of showcase stage at NW Folklife Festival

Seattle

• A new work to be published by Sasquatch Books (distributed by Random House) April 2016 on the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's employment with the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon. A hardcover.
• Writing of non-fiction book
• Research conducted at The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, OK; the BPA Library in Portland, Oregon; The Bureau Of Land Reclamation in Grand Coulee, WA; and on-line resources such as Library Of Congress, and The Ralph.
• Licensing and Acquisition of original Song Manuscripts to be used as photos
• Permissions and Acquisitions of private photographs from individuals, families, archives, and collectors.
• Conducted over 20 interviews with primary subjects, secondary sources, experts, collectors, and other writers of Guthrie work.

Pendarvis Farm, Happy Valley, Oregon

Conceived and coordinate Lucky Barn interviewer stage. Interviewers host performing artists on stage in front of a live audience over the length of a three-day festival. Introduced the DJ element to the festival by coordinating and booking 35 vinyl-spinning DJs to perform over three days on five stages resulting in a highly-curated and extremely popular.

Greater Seattle Area

• Participate in a community-member panel assisting Bumbershoot staff in talent search and general festival vision and direction.

Greater New York City Area

• Finalized contracts, booked weekly concert series, and supervised on-site production staff of a seven-day club operation.
• Created press releases and maintained consistent media relations with New York press and radio.
• Responsible for booking and supervising major off-site concerts.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Evaluated new music inventory
• On-air programming/Substitute on-air host for a variety of shifts
• Production assistant of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Jazz Festival