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WHO WE ARECONTRIBUTORS AND STAFF in alphabetical order
Robert Ambrose ("African Beat") travels the world vicariously through music,
and occasionally in search of it, from his home in Alaska, where his
occupations are general manager of community radio station KTNA-FM, and host
of "The Rhythm Connection" program, and parenting two lovely boys.
East-coast Canadian Ted Boothroyd takes pride in his omniscient wife and their
two wonderfully grown kids, his homemade cd shelves, and some of his editorial cartoons,
artworks and writings. Besides book and music reviews for The Beat,
he reviews Caribbean albums for www.jahworks.org
and even the odd jazz album for others.
Susan Cummings (Maroni) is a writer and fiber artist who raised four
children in Massachusetts before moving to West Africa in 2001. She lived
in Senegal and Mali for nearly three years. She is currently in the States
and looking forward to her return to Africa, where she plans to establish a
cultural center and guest house.
Originally from Montreal, Brian Dring resides in Connecticut where he works
as an analytical chemist, freelance keyboard player, and world music
journalist. His reviews of soca, zouk and Haitian music and up close artist
interviews are featured in The Beat's "The Other Caribbean" column.
Barry Eisenberg, AKA Professor Bazza Chile Boy ("African Beat" columnist):
Was young once, and a poet. Put myself through grad school in my late 30s as
an abstract expressionist watercolorist and fell in love with Congolese
music at the same time. Proud dad and granddad, can still cut a rug.
Northern California community college English instructor who wants to be a
dj when he grows up; soukouman! Chuck Foster's comprehensive "Reggae Update" column has appeared in The Beat since 1989 (although he himself appeared before that). He hosts "Reggae Central" on KPFK-FM, 90.7 Sundays 3-5 p.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles (streaming live--or hear last week's archived show--at www.KPFK.org) and is the author of Roots Rock Reggae published by Billboard Books. Although he has no Web site he can be reached at cfoster907@yahoo.com Laura Gardner was smitten with The Harder They Come soundtrack around age 3 and since then has found ways to feed her reggae habit. In 2000, she founded the online magazine www.jahworks.org and became known for her in-depth interviews with top international reggae artists. In addition to her journalistic contributions to various publications, she has worked in production roles at prominent Northern California reggae festivals and can be reached at editor@jahworks.org
Mark Gorney has been a reggae obsessive since his teenage years, leading to a
severe vintage vinyl addiction. He has done a number of things over the
years, and is currently the owner of Worldisc,
www.worldisc.net.
Carol Haile Selassie is in charge of all advertising, circulation and
subscriptions and selects and edits the text of the "King of Kings" column
for each issue. She has been married to Ethiopian singer/songwriter Isaac
Haile Selassie for 15 years.
Steve Heilig has been writing for The Beat since the late 1980s,
doing features and reviews of recordings, concerts and music books
from all over the world. He has also covered music for various other
publications, and lives in San Francisco, where he is still searching for a
world-class fish taco restaurant.
Dave "Hey Mr. Music" Hucker has been playing the music of two continents and
a few assorted islands for London club-goers for 20-plus years.
Robert Leaver who covers Latin music in his "Noches Calientes" column, is
the former owner of Round World Music in San Francisco and executive producer of
two Grammy-nominated Latin jazz cds (Ritmo y Candela 1 & 2 with Carlos
"Patato" Valdes). Shelah Moody is an editorial assistant, podcaster and staff writer for the Style section at the San Francisco Chronicle. She has been a frequent Beat contributor since 2000. She also contributes to to the Reggae Festival Guide and other publications. One of her career highlights was a series of interviews with the late, great Dennis Emmanuel Brown. She can be reached at smoodytone@aol.com
When he's not photographing a live African concert in Los Angeles, Jay Nelson
is either looking for one or booking one himself. He hosts The Beat website and in
his spare time occasionally updates the content. www.afropulse.com
Tom Orr is a sometime semi-professional percussionist and actor, husband of
Teresa, daddy to Bethany, Shiloh and Elijah. Little or no tolerance for rap,
country, phony-angst rock 'n' roll, synthetic pop and the overall
how-many--million-can-we-sell mentality. He says, "Getting to write for The
Beat is one of many blessings I count each day."
Ramsey Ramerman ("Musical Murder") has been chasing dancehall riddims since
high school and starting writing for The Beat in 1994. When he's not
listening to dancehall, he's spending time with his wife and daughter or
suing people.
Ron Sakolsky is the co-editor of Sounding Off!: Music As
Subversion,/Resistance/Revolution (Autonomedia).
Freelance writer, broadcaster and lecturer specialising in Congolese music
Martin Sinnock covers the Congo-Kinshasa beat in The Beat's "African
Beat" column. He contributes to
www.AfricaSounds.com
and is heard
presenting "The African & Global Beat" and "The Rough Guide Radio Show" on
www.TotallyRadio.com.
In addition to listening to tropical music he tends his tropical garden on the
South Coast of England.
CC Smith, Editor/Publisher, Minister of Information and founding mother of
The Beat, has at various points in her checkered career been a radio
broadcaster, journalist, photographer, world traveler, law librarian,
seamstress, gourmet cook, tennis player and always a music fan of omnivorous tastes.
Roger Steffens, founding editor of The Beat, is an actor, writer, lecturer,
producer, curator, photographer and archivist who has been collecting all
things reggae since 1973. A professional voice-over actor for Oscar and
Emmy-winning films, books on tape, corporate and cultural institutions, Roger
has hosted local and syndicated radio and tv shows since 1961, worked with
refugees in Vietnam for 26 months, written countless liner notes and shot
dozens of album covers, authored five books about Bob Marley and
reggae, had an eight-month-long exhibition of his Reggae Archives at the
Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA in 2001, and played football as a child for
Vince Lombardi. He lectures all over the world on "The Life of Bob Marley,"
most recently in Australia, Hawaii, Israel, Guam and the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.
Bob Tarte has written the "Technobeat" world music column for The Beat since
1989. He lives in West Michigan with his wife Linda and around 50 animals,
most of them birds. Bob is the author of Enslaved by Ducks
and Fowl Weather. Michael Turner tries to keep the music from Jamaica's golden age alive through writing, radio, and more recently, live deejaying. He is co-author of Roots Knotty Roots, a Jamaican discography www.nghthwk.com/RKR/, a reference book/cd documenting over 70,000 Jamaican singles. Michael lives in Mendocino County, CA, where he can be heard sitting in on "Heavyweight Sounds," KZYX-FM, Fridays at 10 p.m. He deejays on various sound systems in Northern California, and also with DigitalDubs in Rio de Janeiro, recently accompanying them with Ranking Joe on tour in Brazil. oldbroom@aol.com
In addition to contributing to The Beat, Boise, ID resident Norman Weinstein
reviews jazz and world music for the Christian Science Monitor.
His latest book is No Wrong Notes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005)
and he is also the author of A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in
Jazz.
Mara Weiss and Nego Beto, the "Brazil Beat" team, have been writing the
column since 1993. Nego, from Bahia, Brazil, is a career musician; Mara is a
freelance writer and music producer. Together they are BrazilBeat Sound System
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