Audience of One
Live from SugarHill Studios is recorded in front of a live studio audience … of one. We we created the show it was important to us that you, the viewer have someone to identify with, to connect with, to act as your surrogate in the Studio A experience. So based on comfort, rather than aesthetics, we picked out a big old recliner… put a table next to it (for Lone Star Beer)… and started searching for our first Audience of One.
The social media aspect of our Audience of One is that each show features a single audience member that represents a larger online community and allows that community to participate in the LFSH experience.
Lou Congelio – Episode 3
Lou represents the Houston online creative community site Only In Houston. He is also owner and ECD of of Stan & Lou Advertising. He wrote this great article about his experience.
Farrah Akhtar - Episode 4
Farrah Akhtar is Houston’s representative for the international yelp.com online community.
Joey Guerra – Episode 5
Joey Guerra, is music critic for the Houston Chronicle, one of the country’s largest newspapers and the largest daily in Texas. He does artist interviews, reviews concerts and also blogs regularly at chron.com and at 29-95.com, a new entertainment/lifestyle website. He wrote this blog article about the show.
Chris Gray – Episode 6
Chris Gray is music editor for The Houston Press, a weekly publication with almost 645,000 readers and more than 2 million online hits each month. Here is an article about his LFSH appearance from the Houston Press Rocks Off blog.
Chris Henderson – Episode 7
Chris Henderson is a writer who covers Houston nightlife in 29-95.com, The Houston Press, Houston Magazine and Texas Music Magazine.
David A. Cobb – Episode 8
David is the proprietor and editor of music and events blog Houston Calling. Here is the feature he wrote about the show.
Andrew Dansby – Episode 9
Dansby is a Kentucky native and former New York resident who survived stints in the film and book publishing industry. He’s currently an entertainment columnist for the Houston Chronicle, where he spends most of his time thinking and writing about music. He wrote this blog entry about Roy Head.
J.R. Cohen – Episode 10
J.R. Cohen, general manager of the Forbes and NY Times acclaimed lounge/coffee bar/social media hub The Coffee Grounds and TheCoffeeGroundz.com.
Matthew Wettergreen – Episode 11
Matthew is an educator, community architect and cofounder of Caroline Collective. He teaches at Rice University on the intersection of art and engineering. He develops community based education models and organizes forums for discussion including Bandcamp, Music Mentoring and Barcamps.
Jim “Eggs” Bricker – Episode 12
Eggs is the handle Jim uses a columnist for the innovative music blog Breakfast On Tour. He tweeted us about being on the show and BAM! (To quote Dan Workman) … here he is. Here is his article on Breakfast on Tour.
Henry “VonWolfe” Davis – Episode 13
Henry is a 17 year veteran of creative direction and design whose work covers print, web design, video, photography and writing. He also acts as the Live Music Examiner for Examiner.com.
Mark C. Austin – Episode 14
Mark is a photographer who has covered nearly every major music festival from Bonnaroo, Voodoo Music Fest to Coachella and Jazz Fest and his work has been featured in publications like SPIN, Paste, Rolling Stone and Village Voice Media. His images are currently on display in 5 different permanent exhibits at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas.
Rhonda Garner – Episode 15
Community guest and ‘audience of one’ is KPFT 90.1 FM’s host Rhonda Garner. She’s been highlighting local and regional talent on her radio program RadioACTIVE, along with co-host Phil Schawe, for six years and was the one co-creators of The SugarHill Sessions.
Keaton Branch – Episode 16
Keaton is a contributor to the blog AudioADD.net.
Ruben Dominguez – Episode 17
Ruben Dominguez is a founding member of rock group Toho Ehio and former freelance journalist for local rag Thorazine. Currently, he works as an entertainment anchor at KRIV-TV Fox 26 and was instrumental in the Fox Rocks local band segment among other music coverage.
