Speaking of the Arts is a podcast for individuals and organizations who work in the arts industry. Each episode features key industry personnel including artists, agents, managers, and presenters. By offering these unique perspectives, the series provides strategies and tips for many of the challenges facing the arts community. Speaking of the Arts was founded by Mike Epstein, partner at New Sound Arts.
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Welcome to another episode of Speaking of the Arts. We have a great episode for you today. Today, we are featuring Lydia Liebman of Lydia Liebman Promotions.
Lydia is a publicist specializing in the jazz genre and works with a large roster of amazing artists. If you go to www.lydialiebman.com you can see who she's working with and some of the amazing success stories she's had for her clients.
In this episode, Lydia and I talk all about the world of PR. Why should an artist hire a publicist? What does the publicist do? How has the role of the publicist changed since Lydia has been doing this for over a decade now? All these questions and more are answered.
I am grateful to Lydia for her time and really enjoyed speaking with her. I think you're going to learn a lot. Without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with Lydia Liebman.
Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of speaking of the arts.
I’m your host Mike Epstein and I’m excited to tell you about today’s episode. We’re featuring Joel Pierson.
Joel is the founder, bandleader, and arranger for The Queen's Cartoonists, an ensemble that performs music from cartoons.
Joel had this great idea to combine his passion for animated film, and live music to create a really unique experience for audiences, so he’s cultivated over 100 years worth of animation from all around the world and has largely by himself, transcribed the scores to these films and then put together a great ensemble to perform them.
Today's guest is Chris Mees, founder and director of the B Natural booking agency. I've known Chris for several years now and was really looking forward to our chat. Chris is a driven, smart, successful entrepreneur who has built a respectable agency from the ground up.
My guest today is the incredibly talented singer songwriter, performer, and all around amazing artist Cyrille Aimee. Cyrille is preparing to release a new ground breaking album called Beautiful Way.
Thank you for tuning in on this new episode of Speaking of the Arts. My name is Mackenzie and I am the Operations Manager at Epstein Fox Performances and I will be your host for today’s podcast. I am so excited to bring you guys a really special guest, critically acclaimed composer, bandleader, and most importantly Tenor Saxophonist, James Brandon Lewis. We are going to invite him into the conversation on everything music.
My name is Marie Le Claire. I’m the east coast agent at Epstein Fox Performances and your host for today!
Today, I’m excited to bring you a conversation with famed singer and one of the newest artists on the EFP roster, Magos Herrera!
Today we feature Epstein Fox Performances, the new booking agency I have co-founded with my partner, Michael Fox. (For more information on Michael,, you can listen to Speaking of the Arts Episode 68 where I featured Michael and what was then his new agency, Fox Performances).
Our guest today is Katherine McVicker. In 2014, Katherine founded the boutique agency, Music Works International, after three decades as an agent developing the touring careers of dozens of artists such as Brad Mehldau, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many others.
Today we are speaking with members of the vocal group Kings Return. We just signed these guys to our booking agency and I am so excited for everyone to check them out.
I’m your host this week, Marie Le Claire. I’m so excited about our guest this week, Nate Query, long time bass player for the Grammy nominated, Portland, OR based rock band, The Decemberists.