Anna Bulbrook’s GIRLSCHOOL
GIRLSCHOOL is a celebration of females challenging the status quo. Anna Bulbrook has been playing music her entire life. She is a trained classical violinist and is best known for her work with The...
View ArticleFrom the Mosh Pits of Orange County – Whitney Olpin
Whitney Olpin has been working in Live Sound for the last six years, working as an Independent monitor engineer and stage manager. She has spent the last year touring with Fitz and the Tantrums. Based...
View ArticleAnnie Stoic – LD and Assistant Tour Manager for Joan Jett
Annie is currently the Lighting & Assistant Tour Manager for Joan Jett & the Blackhearts who just finished up touring with Heart and Cheap Trick. In addition to her Tour Managing position, she...
View ArticleBella Blasko – Creating a Safe & Supportive Environment in the Recording Studio
Bella Blasko has only been working in professional audio for six years, yet she is making her mark working with artists such as The National and Natalie Merchant, and working at Dreamland Studios and...
View ArticleRiding the Roller Coaster of Live Sound – Rena Kozak
Rena Kozak is a FOH engineer and tour manager based out of Calgary, Canada. She has always had an interest in arts, and has played in numerous Calgary bands as well as studied painting and drawing at...
View ArticleMadame Gandhi – On Women in the Industry
As we enter 2017 women’s issues, seem to be at the forefront of the countries mind and I encourage everyone to stand up and support women led organizations and stand in solidarity with women worldwide....
View ArticleNever Take No for Answer – Yuna Qian
Yuna Qian’s journey into audio engineering started when she was given a piano by her parents at the age of five. This first instrument planted within Qian a love of music that would grow into a career...
View ArticleA Life in Insurance Diverted – Holly Ann “Boots” Latcham
Holly Ann Latcham (Boots) is a touring FOH engineer and Production Manager. She also works as a system tech and monitor engineer for venues such as First Avenue 7th Street Entry, Mill City Nights, the...
View ArticleSeizing the Opportunities – Dawn Birr of Sennheiser & Neumann
Dawn Birr is the Global Commercial Manager, Audio Recording at Sennheiser & Neumann. Dawn has spent the last 17 years with Sennheiser and worked her way up, starting out as a temporary...
View ArticleUniversity of Crash and Burn – Rebecca Wilson
Rebecca Wilson is an industry veteran, working in live sound for over 25 years. Touring solely as a monitor engineer, except for a brief stint as FOH Engineer for Flemming and John (while out with Ben...
View ArticleDedication and Perseverance – Meegan Holmes
Meegan Holmes has worked in live sound for over 25 years doing everything from system teching to mixing monitors and FOH. She is now in Global Sales for one of the largest sound system providers in the...
View ArticleFounder of Tom Tom Magazine – Mindy Abovitz
This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Mindy Abovitz, founder of the only magazine in the world dedicated to women in percussion. Tom Tom Magazine was founded in 2009 in response to gender...
View ArticleErika Earl – Always be yes-sing! (say it out loud)
Someone once said about Erika Earl, “the building could be on fire, and no one would know because all nine sessions would keep going.” She has made more than a few musicians, engineers, and producers...
View ArticleBringing your Musical Ideas & Dreams to Reality
Making an album in today’s music industry By Betty Moon When I first started playing music in Toronto’s music scene, it was during an era where CDs were still dominating industry sales and the digital...
View ArticleBreaking Tradition – Brinda Sreenivas
Brinda Sreenivas is a Freelance Sound Engineer from India. Born in Bangalore – India, her early life was filled with music, teaching herself to play piano by ear but this fell off when her parents were...
View ArticleFrom “Girl Engineer” to Re-Recording Mixer – Sherry Klein
Sherry Klein is an Emmy-nominated re-recording mixer and a pioneer of women in audio in both music and television. Sherry became a recording engineer at Larrabee Studios in the late 1970s – one of a...
View ArticleHelping Filmmakers Tell a Story – Deb Adair – Re-Recording Mixer
Deb Adair is a freelance re-recording mixer. Deb has been nominated for an Oscar (for the film Moneyball), has won three Emmys and nominated for an additional five, and has won two Golden Reel awards...
View ArticleThis is Why I Do This Job – Caroline Sanchez
Caroline Sanchez works in Broadcast Audio as an A2, RF Tech, and Pro Tools Op on recording trucks. She also works in live sound as an A2 and AV work. Sanchez is freelance and regularly works for ABC,...
View ArticleFrom Stage to FOH – Alice Wilder
Alice Wilder is a Front Of House engineer based out of New York City. She currently works for M.I.A., Wolf Parade, and Austra, and has done FOH for Foxygen, Divine Fits, Tinashe, The Drums and Diana...
View ArticleFinding Your Passion: Katy Templeman-Holmes
Katy Templeman-Holmes is the Director of Marketing for Professional, at HARMAN. She started out in recording and broadcast engineering before moving over to the business side where she has worked for...
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