Thursday, Nov 8th

The “Real” Social Networking Panel
RADIO PROGRAMMER / MUSIC SUPERVISOR / LABEL / MANAGER/ ARTIST MIXER & ROUNDTABLE

MODERATORS
Marianne Goode – Founder / All Media Music Group
Michele Clark – Founder / Sunset Sessions

PANELISTS
Esteemed Table Captains:

Alicen Schneider / NBCUniversal
Laura Lee / WCOO / Charleston
Billy Gottlieb / Playback Music
Danny Goldberg / GoldVe
Dennis Constantine / KFOG / San Francisco
Chris Jackson / Comcast Entertainment Group
Keith Coes / WRLT / Nashville
Chuck Bein / See Music
Charese Fruge / The Mix / Las Vegas
Frank Palazzolo / Mad Doll Productions
James Howard / DC 101 / Washington DC
Janet Lopez / Neophonics, Inc.
Michelle Wolfe / KMMS / Bozeman
Jenee DeAngelis / Swill Merchant Music
Paul Jarvis / WBOS / Boston
Jon Ernst / ShowRunner Music
Matt Pinfield / MTV
Madonna Wade – Reed / Whoopsie Daisy
Jack Daniel / WEND / Charlotte
Mamie Coleman / Fox
Mike Karolyi / WCCC / Hartford
Melissa Pradun / Groove Garden
Mike Henry / Paragon
Steve Curran / Harvest Creative Services
Roxy Myzal / United Stations / NY
Melyssa Hardwick / ABC
Rob Goldklang / Warner Bros. Records
Todd Porter / Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Ward Hake / 20th Century Fox TV

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH CARLOS SANTANA

Interviewers
Jonathan Clarke / Q104 & Iheart Radio, NYC
Zeb Norris / WNCS, Burlington, VT

Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary sonic charge
of his guitar, the sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world’s best-known
musical signatures. For more than four decades—from Santana’s earliest
days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion outfit in San Francisco—
Carlos has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends
musical genres and generational, cultural and geographical boundaries.
Long before the category now known as “world music” was named, Santana’s
ever-evolving sound was always ahead of its time in its universal
appeal, and today registers as ideally in sync with the 21st century’s pan-cultural
landscape. And, with a dedication to humanitarian outreach and social activism that parallels his lifelong relationship with music, Carlos Santana is as much an exemplary world citizen as a global music icon.
Santana’s latest album, Shape Shifter (2012) is the first for his new label,
Starfaith Records. The 13-song set is an instrumental tour de force long
awaited by fans (only one song features vocals, by Santana’s lead vocalists
Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay). The album also features Chester
Thompson on keyboards, Dennis Chambers on drums, Benny Rietveld
on bass, Salvador Santana on keyboards, Raul Rekow on congas and
Karl Perazzo on percussion.

Jonathan Clarke: Jonathan Clarke joined New York and America’s most
listened to rock station, WAXQ (Q104.3 FM) as an on-air personality in
1997. In addition, Clarke is Host and Executive Producer for “Out of the
Box,” where every Sunday night at 9 EST, he serves up deep cuts from new
CDs by rock legends, songs from up-and-coming acts, as well as established
bands and artists, plus music from the garages and basements of unsigned and
undiscovered artists. The show has been No. 1 in its time slot among all NYC
rock stations, since it’s inception in 2001. Clarke was the first to play on
NYC radio The Strokes, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Robert Randolph among
many others. Clarke is also on the air at New York and America’s most listened
to music station, No. 1-ranked Hot AC WLTW (106.7 Lite-FM)

Zeb Norris: For Zeb Norris the die was cast for a life in Rock
& Roll when, at the age of 10, he won tickets from a Top 40
station to see The Beatles at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park
in 1966. His first show at The Fillmore West was Santana
with Grand Funk Railroad supporting, and he also had the distinction
of being ejected from a Santana concert at Winterland
by famed Rock impresario Bill Graham personally. Norris is
known for his humor, his bracingly outspoken nature, and for his
30 years in radio at stations all over the country beginning with
KTYD in Santa Barbara in 1976 and including legendary San
F rancisco Bay Area stations KSJO and KRQR. For the last 7 years he’s been P.D. of 3-time Radio & Records small market AAA Station of the Year WNCS “The Point” in Vermont.

FRIDAY, NOV 9th

Q&A WITH STEVIE NICKS & DAVE STEWART

Interviewed by Dennis Constantine / KFOG, San Francisco, Ca

The legendary Stevie Nicks has an instantly recognizable voice that rises above all others that stops you in your tracks – that has inspired
and influenced artists for generations. It is at once haunting, romantic, filled with mystery and completely unforgettable. Added to the voice are her extraordinary songwriting talents which have brought joy to her millions of fans for generations.  Collectively they add up to one of the most successful female artists in rock history. From the start of her career as a solo artist with the release of her five  million seller Bella Donna up to her current critically acclaimed In Your Dreams, Nicks has never failed to deliver unforgettable performances on record and on the stage. In Your Dreams is Nicks’ first album of new material in a decade. “Dreams” was co-produced by former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. Nicks has been touring the last year and a half for her In Your Dreams Tour and has also appeared with Rod Stewart on the Heart & Soul Tour. “The Gold Dust Woman”is also completing work on a documentary on the making of the In Your Dreams album which will be released at the end of this year.

It will also be screened at the upcoming Hamptons Film Festival and the Mill  Valley Film Festival.

Stevie first came to Sunset Sessions in February 2011, where she treated our attendees to an impromptu performance with Vanessa Carlton! We are so excited to have her back!

Dennis Constantine of KFOG San Francisco: Dennis started in radio when he was five years old; he was the class announcer for his kindergarten class. By the time he was 16, he had a job at the local top 40 radio station in Baltimore helping the deejays at the station and at their record hops. By the time he was 21, he was program director at WYRE in Annapolis, Maryland. After stints in Miami, Florida
and legendary stations WYYQ and Y100, he moved to Colorado where he was music director and night deejay at KTLK, and then the morning guy and production director at AOR station KBPI. In 1977, he started KBOC in Boulder and programmed at the station for sixteen years. After consulting two dozen Triple A and and Alternative Stations, he moved to Portland, Oregon to program KINK. After thirteen years there, he moved to the Bay Area where he is now Director of FM Programming for Cumulus San Francisco. He can be heard on the air at the legendary KFOG every afternoon.