Brittany Nader
Producer/WKSU ShuffleBrittany Nader joins Morning Edition host Amanda Rabinowitz on Thursdays to chat about Northeast Ohio’s vibrant music scene. As Shuffle Producer, she provides planning, scheduling, strategy and writing support for WKSU's weekly spin through local music.
Brittany earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication, with a concentration in magazine journalism, from Kent State University in 2013. She has contributed stories to local publications including The Devil Strip, Cleveland.com, Buzzbin Magazine and Akron Beacon Journal’s Savor Ohio magazine. She currently works as a Content Specialist at Drips in Akron, Ohio. In her downtime, she enjoys reading, cooking, playing with her cats and dog and immersing herself in Akron’s music scene.
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Youngstown rock band Rebreather kicked off a pay-it-forward pizza ordering model to support Westside Bowl during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Cleveland filmmaker Zoë Mountain and musician TJ Maclin came up with the idea of the virtual series that spotlights and supports Black artists during the COVID-19 pandemic and puts the racial justice movement on center stage.
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Cleveland musician Dan Bode recorded outdoor jam sessions for an album titled “How I Spent My 2020 Summer Vacation,” which was released in February 2021.
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Since concert clubs shut their doors because of the pandemic, owners have been fighting to get enough funding to keep their businesses open, while their employees look for ways to make ends meet.
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Recognized in the Northeast Ohio music scene as the animated alto-sax player in soul groups Wesley Bright and The Honeytones and Nathan-Paul and The Admirables, the jazz musician is releasing his own lo-fi songs as a solo artist.
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It’s been nearly one year since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the live music scene. We listen back to a compilation album that an Akron record company produced during Ohio’s lockdown last spring.
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How the artist is using this time during the pandemic to continue to share music from Northeast Ohio throughout the world.
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Her new book “Peter and the Wolves” focuses on her time with the late Peter Laughner of the band Pere Ubu.
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A Cleveland artist described as a one-woman choir is out with a new album that combines experimental music, guided meditation and breathing exercises. Christa Ebert, who performs as Uno Lady, says she hopes “GROUNDED” will help listeners find peace amid the stresses and anxieties of the pandemic.
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While the coronavirus pandemic put live concerts on hold, many Northeast Ohio artists stayed busy creating and releasing music. WKSU's Shuffle podcast team shares some of their favorite local music of 2020.
