New ART.BSL Podcast Focuses on Local Culture

Arts Alive - July 2021

Launching in July:  a new weekly podcast focusing on the Coastal arts scene and its importance to the local economy.

Traveler Broad Instagram star Kerry Maloney is featured on the first ART/BSL podcast with host Steve Barney.

Steve Barney, founder of the Bay St. Louis Creative Arts Center and known as “the Mad Potter of Bay St. Louis,” recently launched a new weekly podcast, ART.BSL, with the tag line, “Get the Buzz.” The podcast will have its finger on the pulse of the arts and culture scene on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
 
How to fulfill that ambitious mission? According to Barney, ART.BSL is designed to tell the inside stories of the people behind the scenes who are making the Coast community one of the fastest growing areas in the region.
 

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Episode One, ART.BSL 
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The podcast will also contain a mix of original content and syndicated content from partners, including the Shoofly Magazine. Each episode will feature in-depth interviews with creative movers and shakers and offer artist profiles and timely information on upcoming events, gallery openings and live music performances. Shoofly Magazine Events Editor, Ana Balka, will be doing a “Calendar Gal” segment, spotlighting top local happenings each week.

“We are particularly targeting the thousands of visitors and seasonal residents who are flocking to the Bay St. Louis area every weekend,” says Barney.

​“We are looking forward to using this media platform to promote artists, our community and our growing creative economy. In addition, we want to educate listeners about the role artists play in the Coast’s economic development."

Hancock NAACP president Gregory Barabino and Steve Barney

 
“The goal is to create a critical mass of content and listenership as we pursue sustainable funding opportunities,” says Barney. He believes the podcast will become a powerful tourism development vehicle.
 
​In the premiere episode, Steve talks to Instagram stars Maloney and Fender, The Traveler Broads. They discuss a variety of topics from the cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado, to the impact of Burningman culture. They dive into Fender's article in NOLA.com, "Behind Bay St. Louis' rise as the artsy, relaxed beach town drawing New Orleanians in droves."

The Traveler Broads were judges for the 2019 Arts Alive festival in BSL, photo by Ellis Anderson

Kerry Maloney and Jessica Fender, the Traveler Broads, in the lobby of the Pearl Hotel. Photo courtesy of the Traveler Broads

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The first episode also includes an interview with Bay St. Louis artist Kat Fitzpatrick and gives a recap of the recent opening of the fabulous #3DMississippi sculpture show at Studio Waveland.  

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Artist Kat Fitzpatrick in her Cedar Point home. photo by Ellis Anderson. Click to tour Kat's home in our 2017 Shoofly Archives.

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A vignette in the studio of artist Kat Fitzpatrick. photo by Ellis Anderson. Click to tour Kat's home in our 2017 Shoofly Archives.

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More than 450 people attended the opening of the historic #3DMississippi sculpture show in Waveland. Click here to see our Shoofly Magazine photo album of the event.

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At the #3DMississippi sculpture show opening. Click for our Shoofly Magazine photo gallery of the event.

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The first episode of ART.BSL officially launched on July 2.  Episodes can be found at https://artbsl.podbean.com/.  

​The weekly podcast will also be featured on the  Shoofly Magazine's Home page as an Arts Alive feature and be included in weekly emails to 4500 Shoofly Magazine subscribers.  

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Preliminary ART/BSL Production Schedule

July 2, 2021

Episode 1, Meet The Traveler Broads; Kat Fitzpatrick Profile; 3D Mississippi recap

July 9, 2021



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​July 16, 2021

Episode 2, ​The Last Dirty Place in the Bay / The end of Gabbies Waveland; Juneteenth Celebration; Crossroads Exhibition at Ground Zero; Anne Pitre Chamber/ Leadership 

Episode 3, The Big Bet on the Depot: Part 1 / Kay Kell, Southern Rail Commission; Chef Bernard Caramouche on 200 North Beach Oyster bar and oyster drop and the future of the Depot; coastal ecology with Elizabeth Englebretsen; 4th of July at Harold and Lilian’s

July 23, 2021


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July 30, 2021

The Big Bet on the Depot: Part 2 / Nikki Moon; Michael Reeves; Lonnie Falgout and Lilyana Gandour; Alice Mosely Museum; Katherine Sutton; Mississippi Heroes

The BSL Blues Trail / Jesse Loya and Rachel Dangermond, the past present and future of the 100 Men Hall; Allen Lomax Juke Joint recordings; Kelsey Moran and Brendan, The Ugly Pirate; King of Trivia; Murky Waters BBQ

Aug. 6, 2021

Public Art can make an impact /
Recap of the Wall to Wall Public Art Festival; Ann Madden, Caitlin Bourgeouis, Sara Story Mississippi Arts Commission; Charlene Black, 31 years in city hall; living the golf cart life with Edmund Meyer

Aug. 13, 2021

Communication evolves / Ellis Anderson and the future of communications; Mississippi Aquarium; Jeff Clark, Charlie Clark and Brian Wilemon, Bay Ratz Marching Battery

Aug. 20, 2021

Living the Pirate Life / Albert Ghergich and Noel Allen, Living the Pirate Life; Martha Whitney Butler, French Potager; Marian Glaser, Painting portraits; Di and Zach Fillitraut, Starfish Café

​Aug. 27, 2021

Stories from Before the storm / Community farming with Elise Deano, Ruths Roots, and Josh Magee, Macs Farm, with Matt Gresham, Malcolm White

Sept. 3, 2021

That Little Theatre / Cheryl Grace and John Anderson, Community Theatre; Traveler Broads go to Ocean Springs; Shearwater, WAMA, Ohr OKeefe Museum

Sept. 10, 2021

Meet the Mad Potter / Inside the STEAMpunk Pottery classroom for Science and Engineering; Smith and Lens’s Sandy Maggio and Ann Madden

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​Find each week's podcast on the Shoofly Magazine's Home page!  Also, they'll be included in our weekly emails to Shoofly Magazine subscribers.  

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