Art & Music Radio Show
As part of SouthwestBlend.com’s ‘Champagne Sunday’s online radio show, we aired a special ‘Art & Music Show’, from 11am-1pm PST, on Sunday, May 4^th. Featured guests include musician Victoria White; musician Michael Chain, artist Victoria Chick, and Colleen Aichle – owner of Fallbrook Fine Art & Cody Fine Art Gallery.

 

Featured Guests Include:
Victoria White – Singer Songwriter
Singer-songwriter Victoria White will be joining us to talk about her debut album ‘The Upside’ which is set for release on May 16^th, and was produced by famed longtime ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’ guitarist Sheldon Reynolds, and signed to legendary EWF Founder Maurice White’s Kalimba Music label. The singer’s poetic, easy grooving first single “Can’t Buy Love” has just been released to smooth jazz and adult contemporary radio outlets. White composed every song on the album by herself with the exception of the ambient, acoustic guitar driven “Forgiven,” a co-write with Reynolds. The track “Keep On Going” features the beautiful piano of one of smooth jazz’s most acclaimed performers, keyboardist Brian Culbertson. To listen to her interview and two song clips, Can't Buy Love and Forgiven, please double click on the play button below:




For more about Victoria White –  Click here.

Colleen Aichle – Owner Fallbrook Fine Art Gallery & Cody Fine Art Gallery
Art enthusiast, collector and gallery owner, Colleen Aichle will be reporting to us during the esteemed Annual Reflections of Nature Art Show, a national level wildlife art show held in Fallbrook, California. Colleen’s gallery, Fallbrook Fine Art, is next door to its sister gallery ‘Pinnell Gallery’, and is located in the heart of the ‘Village of Fallbrook’, a North San Diego art destination. A gallery of American Realism, Fallbrook Fine Art represents a number of national and regional artists, but also features a superb collection of Russian Impressionist art. Colleen will discuss the artist’s she represents, the art community of Fallbrook, and will tell us about her new gallery Cody Fine Art Gallery in Cody, Wyoming. To listen to her interview, please double click on the play button below:




For more about Fallbrook Fine Art - Click Here. 

Victoria Chick – Artist in Silver City, New Mexico
Artist Victoria Chick will be joining us to discuss her art career, and to tell us about the flourishing art scene in Silver City, New Mexico. Victoria works in various mediums including acrylic paint on canvas; and creates original, hand-pulled prints such as one-of-a-kind monotypes; and does drypoint, an intaglio technique with the linear qualities of drawing. Victoria Chick is known for her use of the cat image to express the human condition, and for that reason, the body language and the relationship of the cat to other images in the picture plane is what interests her. But her imagery is not limited to felines. Another influence on Chick’s work was her experience as a registered art therapist in Kansas City. To listen to her interview, please double click on the Play Button below:




For more about Victoria Chick – Click Here.  

Michael Chain – Musician, Song & Screenwriter
When it comes to song writing, the story's the thing, and Michael Chain tells one with the best of them. Chain has been a top music and screenwriter for years (major artists record his tunes, and his shows have been EMMY nominated).  And the man can sing.  A quick listen to any cut on Chain's new CD ‘Loud and Proud’ makes that clear. The first cut released from the album "Do You Wanna Do It?" hit #1 on the Hot AC Indie Charts. Chain performs with a cast who have played with George Harrison, Steely Dan, the Rolling Stones, Ring Starr, Joe Cocker, Elton John, Billy Joel, Tom Waits, Bob Seger, Eric Clapton, Dylan, Waylon, Faith, Tina, Shania, and more! Chain knows his way around a recording studio, but concerts are where his heart is. From hell holes the Hollywood Bowl he has shared the stage with everybody from Led Zeppelin to Louis Armstrong. B.J. Thomas, Vicki Laurence, Lee Roy Van Dyke, the Knack, Eric Andersen, Wayne Newton, the Mills Brothers, Manuela Torres and John Davidson, to name a few, have cut Michael's tunes and his script credits range from Punky Brewster and Police Academy to Rambo and Chuck Norris.  You've heard Chain's voice as the Transformers, the Chicken McNuggets, and on hundreds of TV and radio spots. This should be one heck of an interview – heck, Sinatra gave the boy his first singing job, Bob Dylan encouraged him to pursue a recording career, and Buck Owens told him "cut your damn hair!"

Due to technical difficulties, Michael Chain's interview has been edited into parts, we apologize for this, but you can hear the entire interview by clicking on the Play Buttons below, in the order presented.

To listen to Too Rockin' to be Country from the album Songwriter, please double click on the Play Button below:

 



To listen to the first part Michael's interview, please double click on the Play Button below:





Michael talks about his trips overseas to entertain the troops in the second part of his interview, to listen please double click on the Play Button below:





To hear Spirit of the Free, please double click on the Play Button below:





To hear Dos Mas Tequilas from his new album, Loud and Proud,  please double click on the Play Button below:




For more about Michael Chain – Click here.