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CHIRP Podcasts
First Time: First Strike - Carly Ballerini
Carly Ballerini is a working Chicago comic. She travels all over the country featuring and MCing at clubs like Comedy on State and Comedy Corner. In the last year, she has been asked to participate in Cream City Festival, Thunderfest, WICF, 10,000 Laughs, Beast Village, Let's Fest and is set to co-star in a web series in 2018.
Recorded and produced by Brian Heath
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First time: First Strike - David Manilow
David Manilow is the Creator and Executive Producer of the Emmy Award and James Beard Award-winning television series “Check, Please!”, celebrating its fifteenth season on PBS stations throughout the country. David has interviewed more than 500 chefs and restaurateurs and been named one of the top ten most important people in the Chicago restaurant scene.
Recorded and produced by Brian Heath
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Artist Interviews SASAMI Interview
Features interviewer Josh Kessenich spoke with Sasami Ashworth, known as SASAMI on the heels of the release of her newest single ‘Callous.’ She dished to CHIRP Radio about the tour so far, how she made the shift from French horn to synthesizers further earning her nick-name of ‘Synth Queen,” and that’s not all. Tune in to get the whole scoop.
Produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (@AmandaRMayo)
Photo by Daria Kobayashi Ritch
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First Time: First Strike - Briavael O’Reilly
Bri the Barefoot DJ can regularly be heard Monday nights at 8pm on CHIRP Radio. She can occasionally be seen onstage, but more often in the booth, with the Curious Theater Branch (29th Annual RhinoFest coming January 2018 to the Prop Thtr!). After ten years of telling people on the east coast she was "from Chicago" even though she actually grew up in Crystal Lake, Bri finally moved to Edgewater in 2011, where she still lives with her wife, Nico, and their two thumbcats.
Produced and recorded by Brian Heath
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First Time: First Dream - Ashley Holman
Ashley Holman is ¼ of the local Chicago party punk band So Pretty. She also is the co-founder of Chicago-based collective The Pretty Pit Skill Share. She is a relentless seeker of inclusion and destroyer of hierarchies. She has been described as a “Professional life-changer, expert screamer, aggressively positive and affirming” by people much cooler than her. Thinks green rooms are stupid status symbols and donuts are delicious. Not a great writer of bios.
Recorded and produced by Brian Heath
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