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Chris Hartwell •
Cory
Reese •
Dacia A. Blodgett-Williams
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Eric Endres •
James Andeson
• Jared
Johnson •
Mark Hansen
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Chris
Hartwell
www.chrishartwell.com
Bio
Chris
Hartwell is a young piano-based singer/songwriter that can be found
performing out west in Utah and Idaho, as well as back east around
the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. His solo album, All I Fear, was
released in 2001 and his music has been featured on numerous compilation
albums as well. He is currently looking to record a new album in the
months ahead.
Chris
graduated from the George Washington University in 2001 with a degree
in Communication. These days, he splits his time between a day job
working on Capitol Hill and pretending to be a rock star on the
weekends. While new at reviewing specifically LDS music, Chris has
done a number of reviews of mainstream rock and pop music at www.bigyawn.net.
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Cory
Reese
www.coryreese.com
Bio
Cory Reese,
an accomplished pianist and arranger, has recorded 4 solo piano albums,
including Moment of Peace, Heart To Heart: Instrumental
and Solo Piano, Silent Night: Instrumental Music For The Christmas
Season, and Witness.
Cory earned a masters degree in social work and works as a mental
health therapist at an adolescent residential treatment facility when
he is not playing the piano. He is married and has two children. |
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Dacia
A. Blodgett-Williams
Bio
Dacia A. Blodgett-Williams has been reviewing LDS musicians
since 1999. In her work for The All-Music Guide, she wrote over 200
reviews, biographies and articles. Williams was crucial in putting
the names of LDS musicians in front of the general music-loving marketplace.
Other works by Williams have appeared in the Ensign magazine, the
Los Angeles Daily News, Deaf USA Newspaper and a variety of small
newspapers. Williams earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism
from California State University, Northridge, and now has nearly two
decades of writing experience.
She lives in Skiatook, Oklahoma with her husband Robert and their
three children. |
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Eric
Endres
www.EricEndres.com
Email
Eric
Bio
Eric Endres has written, recorded and performed a wide
variety of music, including progressive and modern rock, acoustic,
children's music, reggae, blues, gospel, country, novelty and more.
He has also written two stage musicals, the first of which, A Week
In The Life, was produced in Buffalo in 2003 to great acclaim.
Eric joined the LDSMusicNews.com staff in January of 2004. He lives
with his wife, daughter and two dogs in Buffalo, NY, where he is currently
shoveling a lot of snow out of his driveway. |
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Jim
Anderson
Bio
James Anderson is no stranger to LDS music, having
followed it since the first big breakthrough projects
in 1974, which included 'Saturday's Warrior', and
'Like Unto Us'. In the early 80s he helped build KXCI
91.3 Tucson, he came up with those call letters and
the FCC approved them. He ran the first LDS music
program in Arizona, a half-hour program he drew up the
playlist for, it ran for a short time then went off
the air due to unrelated matters at the station,
mainly problems related to the start-up of new radio
stations.
But
it was not until 2001 that he began doing things
in the LDS industry, when he wrote and produced
'Millions Upon Millions' for the LDS Styles 2 CD.
Since then he has been working towards becoming a
producer and writer of both general and LDS music.
His philosophy there is that he will try to create and
promote music that will reach out beyond just the LDS
community as well as create music for it. He is
currently working on a compilation of music for
dances, and says it will be in varied popular styles.
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Jared
Johnson
www.jaredjohnson.com
Bio
Johnson has reviewed more than 70 LDS and Contemporary
Christian albums for All Music Guide since 2001. His reviews have
also been featured on LDS Music World and Meridian Magazine, the most
frequented LDS Web site today. A graduate of BYU's public relations
program, Jared covered music for the Daily Universe and was included
in other campus publications. He has been a special contributor to
the FCMA newsletter and has freelanced for a variety of clients. |
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Mark
Hansen
markhansenmusic.com
Bio
Mark has been writing for many years in various forms.
Beginning in his home town in Indiana, he wrote for the alternative
newsmonthly Tunnel Times, and had a regular music column in the Terre
Haute Tribune-Star. After moving out to Utah, he continued with regular
appearances in The Event (an entertainment and news paper), Jam Magazine
(for Salt Lake area musicians), and also The Salt Lake City Weekly.
His
blog, http://moboy.blogspot.com,
providing ongoing commentary on LDS popular culture and themes,
is one of the oldest in the circle of LDS blogs commonly known as
"The Bloggernacle".
He
is also a singer/songwriter, recently releasing his first CD, "One
United Generation", and is the chairman for the annual LDS
Music Festival held in American Fork, in the shadows of the Mt Timpanogos
Temple.
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