Gulf Coast Life Arts Edition

A conversation with artist and founder the Drifters Project Pam Longobardi about her exhibition in the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples, which aims to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

We revisit Players Circle Theater’s extended production of the musical “NIGHT AND DAY. Love Lost & Found Through the Eyes of Cole Porter.” The narrative of the show is told through the music of American composer and songwriter Cole Porter, without spoken dialogue from the actors. We’ll explore the show with its creators.

We listen back to some of our favorite music selections performed on Gulf Coast Life Arts Edition throughout 2021 including music from The Swingin’ Clique, Perfect Sequence, Bill Metts and Bruce Gallant, John Housley, and the Florida Gulf Coast University Bower School of Music Jazz Combo.

We explore Players Circle Theater’s current production of the musical “NIGHT AND DAY. Love Lost & Found Through the Eyes of Cole Porter.” The narrative of the show is told through the music of American composer and songwriter Cole Porter, without spoken dialogue from the actors. We’ll explore the show with its creators.

As 2021 comes to an end we listen back to some of our favorite music selections performed on Gulf Coast Life Arts Edition over the past year.

Sanibel Island Poet Joe Pacheco recites selected works from his extensive body of poetry. Legendary classical and jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram also joins for a poetry/jazz collaborative performance.

We're revisiting our recording session from February of 2020 featuring music performed live in studio by guitarist Max Hatt and vocalist Edda Glass. You can hear that episode in its entirety here.Their original music truly defies genre classification, but has been described as cinematic folk, including jazz, and Bossa Nova. They garnered a Grand Prize win at the 2014 NewSong Competition at Lincoln Center in New York. They’ve performed all over the country and have appeared on both NPR and PBS.

We speak with the namesakes of the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples, Jay and Patty Baker, about complimentary exhibitions currently featured that include remarkable items from Jay’s collection of Yankees baseball memorabilia and including fine art from the Baker’s private collection covering the most significant art historical movements of the past 150 years.

We speak with investigative reporter Jason Dearen about his recent Associated Press story detailing white supremacists working openly as guards in Florida prisons and related challenges facing the Florida Department of Corrections including corruption, chronic understaffing and an environment where staff who attempt to report inmate abuse and other misconduct face retaliation and intimidation.

Southwest Florida-based guitarist John Housely shares selections from his new album of Flamenco Nuevo music “Reflecting in Blue.” We also explore Housely’s time with the highly influential and pioneering electro band Cybotron in the 1980s.