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Today's episode features veteran DC musician, Label-Founder, and overall music enthusiast, Mylie Durham IV. Mylie has been involved in the Washington DC music scene for the past 20 years, with a body of work spanning from soul, jazz, punk, funk, and electronic music. He is also founder and executive director of his label, Growroom Productions, which has been platform for distributing the talent of Washington DC musicians since 2001. A true local behind the scenes.

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*All music from today's episode can be found on https://growroom.bandcamp.com

Todays episode features John Brendan Guinan, a DC Local who filtered the chaos of his father’s death through the medium of abstract painting and emerged on the other side as a career artist. His debut, the Art of Mourning, opened as a solo show at Governors Island NYC. A documentary about John’s art, created by the Oscar Award-Winning Fine-Films company, is set to release on March 20th, 2018 with a debut screening at Washington DC’s Dupont Underground. The event will include an exhibition of John’s work, a Q&A with the artist and the documentarians, Sean and Andrea Nix Fine, as well as music by local Reggae artists, CultchaSound.