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Podcast logo“Now Hear This Entertainment” is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with guests who are having success in entertainment – primarily music.  A new episode has been delivered on-time, every week since February 2014.  The show has gotten listeners from 163 countries around the world and is one of the top two percent most popular shows out of more than 3.2 million podcasts globally.  “Now Hear This Entertainment” has had multiple placements in the iTunes Top Ten (Music category) and the show has received two honors and been nominated for three other awards. In late spring of 2021 it was in the "20 Best Entertainment Podcasts of 2021," as published by Welp Magazine.

Guests on NHTE have ranged from Roy Orbison, Jr. to the keyboard player for Aerosmith to the lead guitar player for Garth Brooks to the fiddle player for Taylor Swift to the drummer for Cheap Trick to the bass player for P!NK to the trumpet player for Billy Joel, plus, seven GRAMMY Award winners, two Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, a Las Vegas headliner, three Emmy Award winners, and even participants from “American Idol,” “The Voice,” “America’s Got Talent,” and “The X Factor” (including one singer who won “The Voice”).  Guests have come from an array of genres and locales (the latter to include 17 different countries).

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NHTE 518 Kristen Long

Music director and producer, recording and performing artist, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has a new EP coming out this Friday, January 19th. She is also part of a duo act and the co-founder of Minx & Maestro Productions, which she talks about here. In addition, she has held the position of Specialist of Vocal Casting and Music Production with Royal Caribbean Entertainment after music and vocal directing for them for almost nine years.

NHTE 517 Peter Martin

Composer and an acclaimed jazz pianist, and the founder of Open Studio, which is the world’s leading jazz education platform. His newest album was just released on December 1 and features his brand-new quartet. His touring career has taken him to six continents numerous times, and he played in the White House by invitation from President Obama several times.

NHTE 516 Monsieur Minimal

Athens, Greece-based singer, songwriter, guitar player, and composer who just released a remix single at the end of November. He is a working on a new album that he talks about here and has performed not only in his home country but in Turkey, France, Russia, Germany, Poland, and here in the U.S., including having at one point opened for Moby in Greece. He has also worked on soundtracks for TV spots and ads here in the U.S. as well as in Canada.

NHTE 515 Nyan Feder

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who has released three singles this year, the latest of which came out on September 1st. Plus, he has another new song coming out next week Friday, January 5th. By the age of 12 he had co-headlined international guitar festivals in Mexico and toured around the U.S. After college he moved to Nashville where he continued to tour for other artists at the professional level for years until setting his sights on his own project. His background even includes having recorded with George Clinton.

NHTE 514 Jesslee

Singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a full album of twelve songs at the end of September. In the lead-up to it she had released four singles after having put out six last year. She appeared on Season 14 of “The Voice,” having gotten chair turns from both Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson, and since then has shared the stage alongside notable artists including Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett, Dierks Bentley, Wynonna Judd, and countless others. Plus, she gives an exclusive here about a collab that she has done.

NHTE 513 Allie Colleen

Recorded on-location in Nashville with a singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a duet of “O Holy Night” with Jay Allen. She had also released two singles earlier in 2023 and her Spotify Wrapped numbers for this year show well over 900 thousand streams of her music on that platform alone. Just announced is that she will be part of country superstar Lee Brice’s tour in February and March. Early 2024 will also mark the release of a duet with another A-lister that she reveals during this interview.

NHTE 512 Preston Morelock of Kickstand Jenny

The founder of and guitarist for the alternative rock group Kickstand Jenny. In June the band released a ten-song album featuring some notable contributors, with one of the songs already having well over a hundred thousand streams on Spotify, where they have more than twenty thousand monthly listeners. On the live performance front, the band has shared the stage with notable headliners such as Slaughter, Living Colour, Sebastian Bach, and L.A. Guns.

NHTE 511 Eric Larsen

Sacramento, California-based songwriter and guitar player, one half of the duo act The Cracker Brothers, and the CEO of Outer Marker Records. He is also Head of Marketing, Artist Relations and Sales for D.W. Fearn / Hazelrigg Industries, and in the past was Director of Marketing for TEAC America, which includes TASCAM. Listen as he talks about always being around music and having his eye on the next thing as well as the way he used the relationships he built over the years – creating music and working in the industry – to get the many opportunities discussed during this episode.

NHTE 510 James Norkawich

A musician, producer, composer, arranger, and pianist who just released a 16-song Christmas album at the end of October. From that project alone, one song has over a million streams on Spotify, another has more than 1.6 million streams, and yet a third has 2.6 million. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Chicago to Spyro Gyra to Tower of Power. He also spent a number of years in radio – both on and off the air – as well as an online streaming platform, reaching a worldwide audience of six million listeners in a single year.

NHTE 509 Lex Borrero

Miami-based entertainment executive who is the mastermind behind some of music’s biggest producers, including the multi-platinum Monsters & Strangerz and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning and GRAMMY Award-nominated Tainy, with whom he – four years ago – co-founded NEON16, a media and entertainment company that was voted the number one Most Innovative Music Company in 2021 by Fast Company. My guest has been included in Billboard magazine’s “Latin Power Players” list this year and their “40 Under 40” in 2020.