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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 458 Todd Barrow

Dallas-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who three months ago released his third new single of 2022 after having put out six last year. He has won numerous awards and gotten extensive media coverage, and his music has gotten airplay not only in the U.S., but internationally as well. He is a member of the Country Music Association and has even done some acting too. On the stage, he has performed not only at venues and events throughout Texas, but earlier this month did a show in Oklahoma and last month played at the popular Commodore Grille in Nashville.

NHTE 457 Jessee Lee

A singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a single in July and is about to put out another new song. Plus, she has an EP that will be coming out at the start of 2023. She even has a Christmas song coming out as well. On Spotify she has an impressive eleven-and-a-half thousand monthly listeners. She has been building her music career between Nashville and Texas, including moving back and forth between the two, as she talks about here. Music is in her family, as her father is a GRAMMY-nominated hit songwriter.

NHTE 456 Caitlin Evanson

A classically trained violinist who has traveled the world playing violin and guitar and singing background vocals behind multi-Grammy winning superstar Taylor Swift. Along the way she has appeared on television numerous times, from the Academy Awards to the GRAMMYs to “Saturday Night Live” to “Good Morning America,” the Oprah Winfrey Show, and more. She also plays mandolin and has also toured and recorded with Ringo Starr, and just recently came off the road from having been out with the Rolling Stones. She has even performed for the troops overseas as part of several USO Tours.

NHTE 455 Jessie Ritter

Singer, songwriter, guitar player who splits her time between the Florida panhandle and up in Nashville. She released four singles in the first six months of this year and is about to drop one more song in conjunction with the release of a new album. Four years ago, after a four-month-long competition that featured more than 800 artists from around the country she was named the 2018 Nash Next champion, which earned her a record deal with Big Machine Label Group, home to the likes of Taylor Swift and Florida Georgia Line, among others.

NHTE 454 Michael McMillan

A singer, songwriter, guitar player with over 30 years experience playing his music all over the world, including Brazil, USA, and his home country of Scotland, plus he has even played at the Mandalay Bay hotel on the famed Las Vegas ‘strip.’ His catalog goes back to 2007 and last year his album “Whisky” was nominated for Scottish Album of the Year, while his 2018 album “Cross Country” had been nominated for UK Country Radio Album of the Year, plus he is currently writing what will be his eighth album.

NHTE 453 Anne Buckle

A singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who just put out a new single last month after having also released a new song in May, plus she has a new EP coming soon. She is a regular performer at the famed Bluebird Café in Nashville and has shared the stage with the late Charlie Daniels, opened for The Chicks, and performed on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. One of her songs on Spotify alone has been streamed more than two-and-a-half million times and her new music video has approximately eleven thousand views on YouTube in its first month.

NHTE 452 Frankie Scinta

An entertainer who is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and comedian that has been the heart and soul of his show for over four decades and has been headlining his own show in Las Vegas for over 18 years. He also still performs on the road, having bookings this year alone in locations ranging from Cleveland to Buffalo to Paso Robles, California, to Rochester, New York, and more. He does a stage show that features big band and a 32-piece orchestra, plus he performs a live weekly show on Facebook.

NHTE 451 Teff

She is an award-winning and GRAMMY-nominated bilingual audio engineer, singer, songwriter, guitar player, recording artist. Her top five songs on Spotify alone have amassed well over 200 thousand streams and she is currently working on a new album. As a singer, she has appeared in albums nominated for Latin GRAMMYs, and as an audio engineer she has worked on GRAMMY-nominated albums. Her hooky melodies and fun lyrics have gone beyond her career as an artist by writing songs for other Latin artists, and corporations like Disney.

NHTE 450 Jeff Middleton

Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who released a new single last month. He was one of the writers on the 2018 Jason Aldean song featuring Miranda Lambert, called, “Drowns the Whiskey,” which spent multiple weeks at number one on country radio, was nominated for CMA Song of the Year, and sales-wise was certified multi-platinum. He is a regular at The Bluebird Café and The Listening Room in Nashville and even toured as a guitarist for Josh Thompson. He also had his own band, which was signed to Warner Music Nashville and toured for over five years.

NHTE 449 Proteins of Magic

Kelly Sherrod is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the name Proteins of Magic. She is a multi-format artist who just over a year ago released her debut album, with three of the songs landing on New Zealand Alternative radio charts. Recently she played bass and toured across Europe and America with GRAMMY and Academy Award winner Ryan Bingham, which included performances on Jay Leno and Good Morning America.