A R T I M U S

P Y L E

LEGENDARY LYNYRD SKYNYRD DRUMMER

CHATS ABOUT SURVIVING  THE AIRPLANE CRASH 

THAT KILLED HIS BANDMATES

AND RESCUING  SURVIVORS

NEW MOVIE  

Street Survivors:

 The True Story Of  The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

Based on his eyewitness and chain of events

Long considered the "wild man" of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Artimus Pyle's powerful and distinctive double bass drumming helped define the legendary Skynyrd sound.

Artimus got his first real break at the Charlie Daniels band's Volunteer Jam. His first recording lists -- Artimus Pyle, percussion. Then with other work for the Marshall Tucker Band, Artimus became known as a powerful session drummer.

Using his connections with Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker, both acts that toured often with Skynyrd, Artimus met with Ronnie VanZant and Ed King at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia. The results of that meeting -- Saturday Night Special -- greatly impressed Ronnie. Artimus' live debut with the band took place in Jacksonville's Sgt Pepper's Club in October 1974. The gig, a show to raise money and awareness for Jacksonville's food bank, was hot Everyone remembers the band walking through the front door and into a crush of people that doubled the legal occupancy of the club. Playing under the hot lights in an over-packed club with an underpowered air conditioner made for a memorable night When Bob Burns left the band permanently following Skynyrd's first European tour in December 1974, Artimus quickly got the nod as Skynyrd's new drummer.

The years Artimus played with Skynyrd were the years that solidified the legend behind the band. Quickly developing into one of the nation's top touring draws with a grueling schedule of 300 shows a year, the constant work and touring paid off. By October 20, 1977, Skynyrds songs had become radio staples.

More than just a "tribute" to Lynyrd Skynyrd a tribute to the man that defined it. Artimus Pyle has said " If it wasn't for Ronnie, no one would know my name." Since his departure from Skynyrd in 1991 , Artimus Pyle's career has led him down an amazing path of solo records and projects culminating into one the finest tributes to southern rock royalty. The Artimus Pyle Band is a high energy, true to the music, and true to the era rock group. One of the few that is on the road today. Artimus Pyle, Brad Durden, Jerry Lyda, Dave Fowler, and Scott Raines are not only a group of friends and contemporaries but a group with some of the most seasoned musician in the southeast.

APB delivers hit after hit after hit, night after night after night. From Freebird to Sweet Home Alabama, APB gives fans the best of Skynyrd with one of men who made it!

ORDER NOW!

Street Survivors:

The True Story

Of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

Format: DVD -Available at amazon.com

In 1977, a plane carrying Southern rock legends LYNYRD SKYNYRD mysteriously runs out of gas mid-air en route to a concert, crashing into a dangerous Mississippi swamp while killing several of the band members, crew and both pilots. STREET SURVIVORS: The True Story of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash tells the story thru one of the survivors, drummer Artimus Pyle, who not only survived the fatal crash (that claimed the life of the band's founder and front man Ronnie Van Zant amongst others), but who also bravely pulled the remaining survivors out of the plane wreckage before staggering towards the nearest farmhouse in rural Mississippi to seek help.

For more information about

ARTIMUS PYLE

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The Artimus Pyle Band

visit

Official Website

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Lynyrd Skynyrd History Website

The Artimus Pyle band

will be performing on

Friday, September 11th at 8pm

 at Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo, Florida

Visit https://www.largoarts.com/ for tickets

Find Your Inner Fire!



Heather Hansen O’Neill is an award-winning speaker and author who fires up organizations and corporations on leadership, team development, and change management. As President of Find Your Fire, Heather is a Certified Corporate Success Coach, a DiSC facilitator, and Author of mulitiple books including: Find Your Fire and Teams On Fire!



For over 18 years Heather’s company has helped clients from entrepreneurs of new businesses to Fortune 100 companies improve their relationships and lead more effectively in a rapidly changing corporate environment. She has helped her clients create deeper more meaningful relationships in sales and customer service resulting in increased customer loyalty and overall profit. In addition, the work she does to enhance understanding within and between departments has shown a better flow of productivity, as well as higher ratings in employee satisfaction.



She started out as a professional dancer, injured her foot at the height of her career and was told she could never dance again, and later started her own business. She talks about resilience, overcoming fear (as host of the From Fear to Fire podcast) and transition. Heather now offers a program called The Phoenix - helping women rise from the ashes of other people's priorities to discover their gifts, mission and voice...and the joy associated with using them to make a meaningful difference in the world.



Heather has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.



More about Heather at:

http://heatherhansenoneill.com/

Master Mingtong Gu

Founder, The Chi Center

Master Gu shares his joyous teachings and extensive master skills to train your ability to expand wisdom and energy. Born and raised in China, Master Gu received extensive Qigong training under Grandmaster Pang at the largest Qigong medicine-less hospital in China. He has mastered the unique ability to lead the collective energy field to accelerate personal and global healing. Named The Qigong Master of the Year by the World Congress for Qigong and TCM, Mingtong Gu leads retreats and workshops internationally with tens of thousands of people. Master Gu is the author of key books and the Pure Qi Online series that translate the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong for contemporary times.

Master Gu is on faculty for Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Shift Network.  He has been a keynote presenter at Institute of Noetic Science (IONS), Wisdom 2.0, US Journal Training, PBS, and the Festival of Faiths.  He has additionally spoken at VISA, GOOGLE, Mile Hi, and the Energy Psychology Conference. 

He founded the Chi Center, a beautiful 79 acre retreat center located 20 minutes south of Santa Fe, to bring Qigong wisdom to benefit others, based on his success working with all ages and many physical and emotional challenges.

L  A  R  R  Y

M  c  C  R  A  Y

A BLUES LIVING LEGEND

LATEST RELEASE

'THE GIBSON SESSIONS'

featuring

DICKIE BETTS,DEREK TRUCKS,DAVID HIDALGO,

AND JIMMY HERRING

Larry McCray's heart and soul are in the blues. Of that, there's no question. It's been 25 years -- award-winning ones at that -- of scalding-hot and tasteful blues from the Arkansas-born, Michigan-based singer, guitarist, bandleader, songwriter and heir apparent to a lineage that includes personal influences and heroes such as B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, all of whom he's had the chance to meet and play with. McCray's eight albums have blended reverence for that tradition with his own soulful spin on the form, and those achievements have been noted with an Orville H. Gibson Male Blues Guitarist of the Year award as well as the Top Guitarist prize in International Blues Matters' 2014 writer's poll. But there's a part of McCray here that has a rock 'n' roll beat too, and he's following ​that on his latest release,

THE GIBSON SESSIONS, a 12-song set featuring some of his personal favorites by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, ZZ Top, Gregg Allman, the Doobie Brothers, the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival and others, with help from six-string brethren such as Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts, Derek Trucks Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Jimmy Herring "The blues is my favorite, for sure. I get more out of it, feeling-wise, but I've always been a rock 'n' roll fan and I've always tried to write music that was rock 'n' roll friendly," McCray explains. He adds THE GIBSON SESSIONS is as much a Larry McCray album as the 1990 or 91 debut AMBITION or any of the others that followed in its wake. "I always try to move forward and remember where I came from," McCray says. This album is a way to do these songs I love and maybe get them heard by people who like that music already, but do it in my own way so I can have some of my personality and self-identity within the music."

Make a point to see Blues sensation Larry McCray

​as he celebrates his new release of “The Gibson Sessions”. This collection of classic songs will rock you to the core. The inclusion of guitar virtuosos Dickie Betts, Derek Trucks, David Hidalgo, and Jimmy Herring make this release a very special record. The vibe that’s been created makes this Blues compilation one of the best you could find in any corner of the world. Don’t miss the Larry McCray Tour when he comes to perform in a venue near you. You’ll have a night to remember.

To order 'THE GIBSON SESSIONS' send an e-mail to ​paulbkoch59@gmail.com

For more information

 about

Larry McCray

visit

and  https://www.facebook.com/LarryMcCrayOfficial

Discography

Ambition (1990)

Delta Hurricane (1993)

Meet Me at The Lake (1996) with The Bluegills

Born to Play the Blues (1998)

Believe It (2000)

Blues is my Business (2001)

Live on Interstate 75 (2006)

Larry McCray (2007)

The Gibson Sessions (2015)

Inspired to follow in his father’s footsteps, this born and bred Long Islander is a second-generation chiropractor. A graduate of New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Todd Sinett is an applied kinesiologist, pain expert, author of several books, and the inventor of the Backbridge™ System. As the founder of Tru Whole Care, it was Dr. Sinett’s firm belief in complete, collaborative treatment that led him to establish the Whole Care model. This unique healthcare format allows medical professionals from multiple specialties to work together to provide patients with a comprehensive view, and solution, to their health issues. Over the past 20+ years, Dr. Sinett’s integrative approach has helped thousands of patients lead healthier, pain-free lives. When he’s not seeing patients, Dr. Sinett is most likely writing, cooking, or traveling.

ANIL GUPTA

Anil Gupta, is an electrifying catalyst for profound change who is devoting his life to helping people rise out of pain and blockage into overflowing abundance, happiness and fulfillment. He has a gift for identifying blocks and patterns that are keeping a person stuck and uses his advanced intuitive gifts to reconnect people with their spirit, truth and life’s purpose. Anil literally wakes up people’s souls to live a richer and fuller life and ultimately to realize their greatness, which is within us all.

Anil is a world expert on relationships and happiness. He has coached some of the most famous celebrities on the planet like Mike Tyson as well being a guest speaker with Richard Branson on Necker Island. He loves helping people overcome obstacles that prevent them living a fulfilled life and has appeared on stages all over the world and recently was keynote speaker in Medellin in front of 10,000 raving fans. He has appeared at Harvard on a number of occasions and is a guest speaker on Fox news as well as best selling international author of Immediate Happiness. If you want to have a dramatic impact on your life then Anil Gupta can help you.

We have to become uncomfortable about being comfortable and comfortable about being uncomfortable. Forgiveness is a major part of people’s unhappiness and Anil has a process that will take people through a journey whereby they can at last let go and be released from the pains of the past.

Anil states “Forgiveness is the express pathway to Freedom”.

AUDREY CALLAHAN

Audrey was born in Long Beach, CA to a musical family. Because her family was military, she never stayed in one place for too long. Having lived in several countries by the time she was a teenager and going to 3 different high schools, this gave her a very broad and varied look into our world, its people and cultures.

One thing that was a staple during all this travel was her love for music. She began singing around the age of 2. Although this was her number one passion, she had reservations about pursuing it as a career because of the perceived difficulty and competitive nature of the music industry. As she grew older and more aware of her own personal power, she began to dive head first into making music her full-time career. Since then she has released several singles, an EP entitled ‘The Awakening’, attended her first Grammy Awards Ceremony and more importantly has finally stepped into living a life of true authenticity and purpose.

From this space of clarity and purpose, other areas of her life began to transform as well.

In 2017, her love of travel took on a new form. She and her husband decided to sell all of their worldly belongings and hit the road full time in an RV. For a year and a half, they traveled across the country, moving every couple of weeks doing impromptu fireside concerts and creating travel music videos along the way that they post to YouTube. This journey sparked the interest of a film company who reached out to Audrey and her husband in order to document their nomadic life (along with several others) for a full length feature film entitled RV Nomads.

More than ever Audrey has realized that whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. And no matter where her life takes her, one thing remains the same; she is inspired by producing meaningful content, making deep connections and helping others achieve their own level of personal greatness. She aspires to live a life based on love and compassion and share that message of positivity and growth with her audience far and wide.

GARY LYNN FLOYD

Gary Lynn Floyd Long Bio 2020 Artown

“Gary Lynn Floyd is quickly becoming a favorite singer and songwriter in the New Thought music world.” –

David Goldberg, Science of Mind, 2014

Gary Lynn Floyd is an American singer-songwriter who connects straight to the heart and lifts up a room with his inspirational lyrics and soulful style.

A native of Houston, Gary began picking out melodies on a piano at four years old, and he’s been making music ever since. Today he writes and records deep and meaningful music, and shares these songs like a gift to audiences across the country. His style is a mix of pop, rhythm, and blues, combining silky vocals with powerful lyrics.

It is Gary’s openness to divine inspiration that fuels his endless supply of musical ideas, creates his heart-opening lyrics, and is the light that shines through his performances. With his piano and microphone, Gary is a catalyst for positive change and raises the collective vibration not only through his music but also through his welcoming presence on stage.

Gary brings to his musical performances the culmination of a life’s work. From early roots in gospel and jazz to stage and screen acting to his recent one-man show “When Gary Met Harry: The Music of Harry Warren,” Gary draws from a deep and eclectic well of talent and experience.

Critics and fans alike respond to Gary with open arms. The Global Women’s Empowerment Network selected Gary’s “Unbound” as its theme song; the CW Network Television Series, TroubadorTX, featured Gary among celebrated Texan singer-songwriters; and Gary’s critically acclaimed EP, The Gospel of Zen, was nominated for three 2010 OutMusic Awards, including Album of the Year.

With a unique ability to tune into truth and translate it into music, Gary also has written and recorded various film scores including “Music in the Meaning” for the Noetic Films’ documentary, Viktor & I.

In his newest album My88keys Vol. 1, Gary goes unplugged and invites fans to lean in close for an intimate session with simply the artist and his piano. The first single, “Love Cover Me,” sets the tone with its inspirational and poetic message of love and light. “Kindness wash over me / Make me a symphony / Play every note you can find.”