Mary Beth Abella

Mary Beth Abella is the recipient of the Lionel Richie Songwriting Scholarship at UCLA Extension, finalist in the Song of the Year contest, a nominee of Westword Magazine’s Best of Denver and was named top 10 artists by the Denver Daily News. Mary Beth sang and played keyboard in Dr. Jinx’s (Sean Combs, aka P Diddy) backup band on the show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and her songs have been featured on MTV’s Real World/Road Rules, in indie films, and on internet and college radio stations across the country and world. She was one of the vocalists for an Old Spice live campaign that was featured on multiple news stations, and as a background singer, her voice can also be heard on TV shows and in movies, such as “Hot Tub Time Machine Too,” multiple episodes of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and “The League.”

Abella has toured in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Denver, and has performed at dozens of venues and festivals in both Denver and Los Angeles, including playing at the Fiddler’s Green Ampitheater in Denver, the Hotel Cafe, the Roxy, the Farmer’s Market at the Grove, Molly Malone’s, The Satellite, Silverlake Lounge, The Bootleg, and many others with her band or with her other band, The Chromium Heart.

All three of her albums, including “In Another Life,” “Nice Girl” & “What Happened to the Girls?” are available at www.cdbaby.com, iTunes, and everywhere music is found.

Mary Beth Abella on Radio Venice

Radio Venice Season 10 Premiere – January 13, 2019

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Rusty Tinder

Imagine if Billy Joel started a band with Zac Brown & Gram Parsons. That’s Rusty Tinder!

The singer-songwriter began taking piano lessons when he was six years old, and like most boys decided that sports and girls were more important when he was going into high school. When he told his mom he was quitting piano, she made him take choir. Though 14-year-old Rusty was completely devastated, he now reflects on that choice with gratefulness. Choir galvanized his love for music and made him realize he wanted to share his gift with the world.

After high school graduation, Rusty took his newfound love for singing to new levels by studying Opera in college, though it didn’t last long. In school, Rusty came to the conclusion that he preferred writing his own music and playing in bands. He ended up getting the most general music degree Washington State University had to offer and moved to the Midwest, where he started several jazz-rock bands.

Oddly enough, it was moving back to the West Coast that made the young musician fall in love with country music — a genre he used to make fun of.

Rusty Tinder on Radio Venice

Radio Venice Season 10 Premiere – January 13, 2019

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Doe Paoro

Doe Paoro is a singer and songwriter from Syracuse, New York and is signed to ANTI- Records. In October 2018, she released a new album, “Soft Power,” which she recorded in London with Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, James Bay, Sia). Her second record, “After,” came out in 2015 to critical acclaim and was a collaboration between her and some of the members of Bon Iver. She has written songs for other artists, including Peter Bjorn and Jon, and is a self-trained pianist and guitar player. She began writing music after a year of solo travel through India, in which she studied Tibetan Opera singing and extensive meditation and yoga. When she isn’t touring, she leads yoga and sound healing workshops internationally.

Doe Paoro on Radio Venice

Radio Venice S09.E12 – November 25, 2018

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Mikel Rafael

Born in Texas, raised in Hong Kong, Mikel Rafael started playing guitar at fourteen, inspired by Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, though it was Jeff Buckley who became his hero and veered him into the singer-songwriter direction. At eighteen he moved to Los Angeles to pursue music. He initially focused on playing electric guitar for local bands, while quietly honing his songwriting abilities. After going through a series of bands, he started testing out his material in open mics, and quickly gained a reputation among the local artist community as an evocative story-teller and gifted lyricist.

He quickly went from playing open mics to solo acoustic shows. At one of these shows he met ex-Mowgli’s producer and radio DJ Christian James Hand, who enjoyed his music so much that he offered to record him for free. Together they recorded a total of eight live, on-the-spot performances of Mikel Rafael originals, which were released as an album in late 2016 called ‘This Twisted World of Ours’ under his then-stage name Mikelangelo. Hand played some of those songs on his podcast and on a show he was then hosting on the now-defunct 100.3’s ‘The Sound’, which further expanded Mikel Rafael’s audience.

In early 2018, Mikel Rafael started writing new material for a new EP, which he released in October 2018 titled ‘A Sidewalk’s Dream’. He continues to pursue his passion, and regularly performs around local LA venues.

Mikel Rafael on Radio Venice

Radio Venice S09.E12 – November 25, 2018

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