Here's another podcast in the continuing coverage and support of The New Bedford Film Festival. It celebrates authentic cinematic stories, cultivates bold storytellers, and champions the city’s growing creative economy. It takes place in the vibrant city of New Bedford on the South Coast region of Massachusetts.

The festival is committed to their shared vision by, “spotlighting the diverse human experience through cinematic storytelling such as short and feature films, episodic, music videos, documentaries, and PSA shorts through a yearly film festival.”

Listen to podcasts announcing the latest festival news and promoting the festival, its organizers, and associates here...

In Episode Two, Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Susan and Charles Hauck. Charles, or Chuck, as he is better known, was one of our earliest podcast guests. Susan/Sue/Suzy Hauck is married to Chuck.

Chuck, who is originally from Toledo, Ohio studied sculpture and received his BFA from the Swain School of Design. Sue is a self-taught artist. She has often worked in the decorative arts fields in various capacities. She also served as the Administrative Director of Gallery X for over a decade.

Sean and Susan and Chuck discuss the the history of Gallery X and the first phase of The Gallery X Documentation Project. The project's agenda focuses on scanning Gallery X‘s entire collection of documents spanning 34 years. The documents include news clippings, posters, flyers, photographs, and more. Once scanned, these records will be archived and mined for information specific to the artists who have exhibited their work or performed at New Bedford’s oldest continually operating cooperative art gallery.

The gallery was founded in 1990 and is a contemporary, cooperative art gallery of visual, performing, and literary artist members and volunteers. Gallery X has served as an incubator for emerging artists and is a venue for established artists. It is a platform for local artists, performers, and creatives of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds to showcase their talents as an integral part of the South Coast‘s community.

This eight-episode podcast series supports and documents the overall project and provides historical and background information about the gallery and the progress made to date. The Gallery X Documentation Project will reach out to listeners and anyone seeking information about historical or contemporary artists from the South Coast's creative community.

The Artists Index offers listeners up close and personal conversations with the artists, supporters, and cultural impresarios of South Coast's creative community. Listen to the artists talk about their work, backgrounds, passions, dreams, and accomplishments. Also featured are those who work in or manage the creative community’s economy, promotion, and cultural agenda.

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In Episode Five, Dave Reis speaks with internationally renowned, award-winning jazz musician Greg Abate, a saxophonist, flutist, and composer. He's traveled the globe on his musical tours.

After finishing his education at Berklee College Of Music in the mid-70s, Greg Abate went on to play lead alto saxophone for the Ray Charles Orchestra for 2 years.

Abate formed his group Channel One in 1978. It became a New England favorite and offered him an opportunity to play tenor sax from 1986-87 with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under the leadership of Dick Johnson. He was recently ranked number three in the Downbeat reader's poll for alto sax.

The Artist Index's jazz documentarian and Jazz Podcast Series host, Dave Reis, spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host, among his many other accomplishments. He was one of the original longtime DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became radio station WUMD, 89.3 FM, on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus.

Dave Reis, AKA David Domingo Reis, began as our guest on In-Focus Podcast 154. and In-Focus Podcast 181. He returns once again as the host of our first-ever ten-part jazz podcast series underwritten by the Fiber Optic Center.

There is no better host for this series than Dave Reis, a walking, talking jazz encyclopedia and local legend himself. Dave grew up surrounded by and hanging around with many of the jazz greats he will be presenting his ten-part Jazz Podcast Series underwritten by the Fiber Optic Center.