Let's Go Viral: A Quarantine Happy Hour

You guys are up for a treat!Gene Sinigalliano started a Band in Florida in the late 70s. Little did he know that what started as a hobby would bring him to New York City to be part of one of the most revolutionary music movements in the world - Punk Rock. His band, The Testors, played in CBGBs and other iconic venues in New York City alongside Blondie, The Ramones and seminal acts.He later founded Ultra Sound Rehearsal Studios in 1981 which ran until 2018. During that time he saw great bands and musicians, struggling artists that later became a sensation, iconic auditions and Broadway artists too.

Brooklyn-Based Martin Dockery has won over 30 best of Fest Awards touring his 9 one-person shows and 6 two-persons shows to fringes and theaters worldwide. Or at least he did back when there was live performance, back when we could be in each other's present within the same 4 walls. He now mostly exist as a two-dimensional collection of high-definition pixels. As do we all. Some of these pixels can be found at www.MartinDockery.com

We continue our interview with Amanda and her Journey to become a single mother of a African American Adopted son.

Amanda has being working as an editor, producer and director in film and television for over 25 years. Her work has been honored with News Emmys, Peabodys and a Nomination for a Prime Time Emmy for Non-Fiction Editing. Her work has screened on PBS, ABC, HBO, Discovery and at festivals and screens around the world. Amanda's films include the Last Jews of Libya, Thunder in Guyana, Real Sex, The Shvitz and Deputized. She is the single mother of an African American adopted son and lives in Brooklyn NY. To watch Jonas's film mentioned in the interview go to YouTube home page or talkaboutbias.com. Sorry for the abrupt ending - I lost the las 5 minutes of the interview. oops. no worries the juicy part is in the middle.

Part 2 of interview with Jon Neufeld founder and director of RockBandsforKids. 

Jon Neufeld is the director and founder or ROCKBANDSFORKIDS an organization that inspire kids to learn music, create and write original song and also play their favorite musicians. The kids rehearse in real music studios and perform around NYC and Brooklyn.Originally from Brooklyn, Jon is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and song writer who shares his journey in the music business, the awakening of his passion for music, working with Grammy award winning artists and developing his teaching to adults and kids for almost 20 years.

Anastatia discusses her journey to becoming a licensed Clinical Social Worker, building her 15 year private practice as a psychotherapist, her experiences working with children and teens born with HIV and AIDS, helping adults with mental health and survival confronting HIV/AID and substance abuse,being deployed to help first responder and their families after Hurricane Katrina, working with the most needy and sharing her experience of how to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine.

An interview with Chris Dilley,an artist, singer, musician and voice teacher. We touch on his coming out as a young college student, finding his voice, owning his own studio, teaching in NYU, living in New York City for 15 years, sharing his journey through show business, sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone and Lorna Luft, how he is coping with getting Covid-19, recovering and coping with quarantine and the closed theaters and venues in NYC. Join us in this conversation.

Interview with Nanci Modica, a New York artist, gold smith, jewelry designer, mother and wife. How she is coping during the 2020 quarantine. Her beginning in New York, her friendship with Keith Haring, the elite jewelry crowd of the 90s in New York City, and her insight on our new reality.