Happy New Year! 2022 Yearend

Chica's Café 2022 YearendHappy New Year! It’s that time of the year where most of us reflect on what we did or didn’t do in 2022. Looking forward to an upward emotion in 2023. I’m hopeful. Even though, like many others, I’ve had a challenging year in various aspects of my life. I feel hopeful and excited about the new year. It might be a dream, but I’m okay with it. We need to flourish with possibilities.

As many know from my podcasts and blogs, I love quotes, comedies and enjoying a quiet evening with family and friends.

Salvador Dali “Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.”

Dr. Seuss “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”

Pablo Picasso “Action is the foundational key to all success.”

Alan Cohen “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”

Antonio Banderas “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.”

C.S. Lewis “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

Melody Beattie “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”

Taken from the Loving Kindness Meditation

May you be happy, May you be healthy, May you be safe, May you live with ease

Que seas feliz, que estés sano, que estés a salvo, que vivas con tranquilidad

Listen to episode

I wish you a safe and Happy New Year.

Lindsay Jones–Tony Award Nominated Sound Designer/Composer

Lindsay Jones Sound Designer & ComposerThis is an entertaining episode with one of my favorite people Lindsay Jones, a Tony Award nominated Sound Designer & Composer. He explains how he got started in his career of composing music and sound design. We give a shout out to TSDCA.org (Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Assoc.) which he is a founding member. We discuss the importance of music on film and stage projects, referring to well-known songs and their influence.

Lindsay Jones is an award-winning composer and sound designer.

In theatre
He has been nominated for the Tony Awards of Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play. His Broadway credits include Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers and A Time To Kill. His off-Broadway work has been heard at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, MCC, Primary Stages, and many others. International credits include works at Royal Shakespeare Festival (UK), Stratford Festival (Canada), and many others.

Lindsay has created music and sound for over 500 productions in regional theatres across the US. Awards include seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and twenty-four nominations, 2 ASCAP Plus Awards, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award and two nominations, as well as multiple nominations for Drama Desk Awards, Helen Hayes Awards, Barrymore Awards, and many others.

In film/television
He has created original score for over 35 projects, including HBO Films’ A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject.

His work encompasses features like The View From Tall, Ash, and The Brass Teapot; TV shows such as Sony Pictures’ series Family Practice for Lifetime Television, shorts such as The Follower, House Of Stairs, and Grace; and full-length documentaries such as Hearing Voices and Cleaveland. His current score for Dinosaur Discoveries is now playing at the Houston Museum of Nature Science.

In podcasts, Lindsay is currently the in-house composer/sound designer for the weekly podcast The Imagine Neighborhood, produced by the Committee For Children as well as the in-house designer for the Play On Shakespeare series for Next Chapter Podcasts. Other podcast and audio drama work includes A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Audra McDonald) for Audible, Wormwood (featuring Kevin Kline) for Real Jetpacks Productions, Hamlet for KPBS/The Old Globe, Soundstage for Playwrights Horizons, Twelfth Night and Measure For Measure for Chicago Shakespeare, and The Intersect for Micromass.

In education, Lindsay is currently an adjunct professor of sound design at University of North Carolina School Of The Arts. Other universities where he’s taught include Yale, Juilliard, Northwestern, Purdue, DePaul, NYU, UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine, Rutgers, University of Illinois, and Chapman.

In advocacy, Lindsay is a founding member and the co-chair of the executive board of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and co-founded The Collaborator Party with John Gromada. He is also a founding member of NO MORE 10 Out Of 12’s, an advocacy group dedicated to safe working environments in theatre.

Listen to episode

Lindsay Jones – https://www.lindsayjones.com/

TSDCA – https://tsdca.org/

Imagine Neighborhood – https://www.imagineneighborhood.org/

Next Chapter Podcasts – Measure For Measure – https://ncpodcasts.com/measure-for-measure

Marvel Wastelanders – https://www.marvel.com/digital-series/podcasts/marvels-wastelanders-old-man-star-lord

Jane Anger – https://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/jane-anger-22-23/

 

 

Rick Garcia – Singer Songwriter

Rick Garcia on Overheard at Chica's CaféRick Garcia, Singer/Songwriter and I have been friends for many years and I just had no idea how much he’s done in music, film and TV. Listen to this informative interview and learn what it takes to be successful.

Rick Garcia was born and raised in San Diego, a small south Texas town located 80 miles from the Mexican border. After leaving South Texas he moved to Austin where he began his music career performing and touring with local bands before relocating to Los Angeles…

…as lead singer for bands, THE GREEN CAR MOTEL and earlier ACT of FAITH. In 2004, Garcia found his way into the world of film; he co-wrote and performed several songs which included the theme song for COLLATERAL starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx and directed by Michael Mann. He has written and performed songs for the Academy Award winning film BROKEBACK MOUNTAINSEVEN POUNDS and THE INTERPRETER.

Garcia has worked with renowned film composers Hans Zimmer, Gustavo Santaolalla, James Newton Howard, Heitor Pereira and William V. Malpede to name only a few. Also, Garcia has worked with renowned film directors, Gore Verbinski, Ang Lee, Michael Mann, Issa López and Howard Deutsch.

He has established himself as one of the most respected and sought after singer-songwriters’ working in film and music today. He’s been asked to participate in ASCAP and Grammy Association panels to discuss the various aspects of the film music industry. 

Garcia is currently writing and producing songs for a number of upcoming films and is working with various renown recording artists on some exciting new projects. 

Listen to the podcast

Rick Garcia Website