Eddie is a self-taught drummer and filmmaker who has managed to create a career from both of his passions. He is the founder and director for the Sugarshack Music Channel, where both his love for music and cinematography come to life. After a decade of bringing people together around live music, which he and his team immaculately film and produce in a remarkably chill and groovy space in Bonita Springs — it’s actually his house and its porch — they recently broke ground on their new live music restaurant concept just down the road, with plans to expand to other music cities around the country and world.

Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold are both comedy writers just coming off of a 2-year stint on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, where they were the youngest writers in late night television. They also have several new shows in the works. Their new book, called “Naked in the Rideshare” is a collection of stories about the different stages of life, from childhood to college to adulthood. One of the blurbs on the jacket comes from Will Ferrell, who describes it as “Incredibly original, bizarre, and funny.”

Bob Lewis is a poet, composer, and musician — probably best known as co-founder and early guitarist for the band DEVO. He stopped by our studio while he was in town for a talk as part of the “DEVO 5-0: The Beginning was the End – A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute to The De-Evolution Band” at the Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College.

James Haick III is the president of Scout Comics in Fort Myers — a publishing house for creator-owned comics that also connects writers and artists (and their characters) with producers of movies, tv shows, and video games. He's also the creator of several comics, including Solar Flare (set in a post-apocalyptic world brought about by sudden disabling of technology) CODENAME: Ric Flair (a comic about the secret agent adventures of Ric Flair the pro wrestler - who worked on the comic with James), and The Mall (three teens in the 80’s become owners of mall stores that are actually mob-fronts).

John is a 6th generation Esteroan and founder and member of DeadLink Clique (DLC) — an art collective that got its start in Southwest Florida but is now based all over the United States. He’s also the booking and event manager for Trackout Studios. He writes all his own lyrics, raps, and produces music — as well as dabbling in acting. He’s performed in New Jersey, California, and Texas for SXSW, and all over Florida including the 2nd ever Rolling Loud Hip Hop festival. He also puts on events and has organized more than 50 local shows across Southwest Florida area and is super active in the local Hip Hop scene.

Andrew Armstrong is a classical pianist who has performed for audiences all over the world, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. He'll be performing with the Ehnes String Quartet at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday, November 16th.

Brent Crawford was born in Columbus, Georgia but his family moved a bunch before settling down in Charlotte, North Carolina which he considers his hometown. He and his wife moved to Southwest Florida in 2000. They have three kids, the oldest in college and the youngest in 6th grade. He’s been the Managing Director for Busey Bank’s Wealth Management Group here in Southwest Florida since 2012. We met Brent when he came in to pitch in during one of our pledge drives.

Known as the “Barefoot Baroness”, Wendy Oxenhorn is the founding director and vice chairman of the Jazz Foundation of America, a non-profit that helps jazz and blues musicians in need of emergency funds. Prior to the Jazz Foundation, Wendy co-founded Street News, a street newspaper sold by homeless people in New York City that provided them with a means of self-sufficiency. It’s considered a "pioneer" for the street paper movement worldwide. Wendy also plays a mean harmonica and was named a NEA Jazz Master in 2016.

Jon Brooks is a Canadian singer songwriter whose seven albums explore themes of paradox, love, fear, grief, religion, war, post traumatic stress, AI, refugee crises, animal justice, murder, ecology, esoterica, and the stars.

Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, sound engineer, and electronic music pioneer who might be best known for his work with Stevie Wonder in the early '70s on a string of award-winning albums, like Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness's First Finale. In 1980, Margouleff produced DEVO’s album Freedom of Choice which included their hit song Whip It. Robert has spent time in the studio producing and engineering for Quincy Jones, Jeff Beck, the Doobie Brothers, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo, DEVO, and the list goes on and on. And, he was a colleague and friend of synthesizer inventor Robert Moog, and was also an early creative resource for Andy Warhol's "factory" and co-producer of the cult classic film “Ciao! Manhattan” in 1972.