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Artist Development and Management

About Me


VN Media is committed to a personal, hands-on, goal-oriented style of artist development and management and represents jazz, blues, contemporary classical and acoustic artists based in the Southwest. Our roster currently includes contemporary classical guitarist, George Pepper and jazz guitarist, Mike Brannon.
George Pepper, hailing from tiny Alpine, Texas, is finding ready audiences in the southwest for his original contemporary classical compositions. Studies with jazz greats Jackie King, Herb Ellis and Pat Martino shaped his palette as well as study culminating in a bachelors degree at the Berklee College of Music, a year long tour with punk rocker, Johnny Thunders and a stint in the progressive rock band B-Rock. George is working on the release of two CD's in the coming year; "Fossils", which revisits some of George's earlier counterpoint compositions and 'Heavy Nylon' which will feature original contemporary works as well as arrangements of popular rock tunes. George endorses Godin and LaPatrie guitars, Carlos Juan pickups and Encore music notation software. Check out his website at www.georgealtonpepper.com for upcoming performances.
Mike Brannon has lead several award-winning jazz groups since finishing studies at the Berklee College of Music. In 2001 he released 'Barcodes' with the Synergy Quartet which featured Grammy artists Jeff Coffin (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) on sax and Trey Gunn (King Crimson) on the 8-string Warr guitar. He followed that release with 'Later' in 2006 featuring a core group of stellar musicians from San Antonio (Gerry Gibbs, Andy Langham and Brandon Rivas) along with Grammy artists Paul Wertico, Bill Evans and Harvie S. A new CD of original work is scheduled for release in 2008. Mike endorses Elixir Strings, Onyx Forge Guitars and Carlos Juan pickups.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2007
Band Website: georgealtonpepper.com
Band Members: George Pepper www.georgealtonpepper.com

Mike Brannon www.cdbaby.com/synergy
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

No one is spared...

Posted by VN Media on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:29:00 PST

Whats a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?

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Posted by VN Media on Sun, 04 May 2008 01:09:00 PST

Ahhh....politics!


Posted by VN Media on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:07:00 PST

The Worlds Oldest Sound Recordings Played For The First Time

A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860 - 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is...
Posted by VN Media on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:08:00 PST

The clean stain

Taking a break here and journaling a bit because my mind needs to sometimes just jot things down as they come to me...thoughts that seem important at the time need to be captured.  Perhaps l...
Posted by VN Media on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:32:00 PST

Bliss in the Baked Apple...

I can't go to a Metheny gig and not come away breathless from the sheer enormity of Pat's command of the strings.  And no matter who shares the stage with him, it's always a high that I ride...
Posted by VN Media on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:18:00 PST

Boatload of Love...a gallery of unfortunate valentine cards

Ladies, should a pretty young man wearing a bright pink cowboy hat ever tell you that he wants you to be his valentine, he's not only lying to you, he's also lying to himself.   Ditto for this...
Posted by VN Media on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:46:00 PST

Okaaaayy...

As NASA "Launches" Classic Beatles Song Into Space, ASCAP Announces Longest-Ever Public Performance Of A Member's Song! Today, as NASA beams the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" across the galaxy ...
Posted by VN Media on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:47:00 PST

Mrs. del Giocondo

Mona Lisa's Identity Confirmed by document Jan. 16, 2008 -- The mystery over the identity of the woman behind Leonardo daVinci's "Mona Lisa" has been solved once and for all, German academic...
Posted by VN Media on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

Hello 2008!

It's the end of another year, filled with triumphs, losses, pain, healing, great sorrows and great joys. Tomorrow we switch over to 2008, imagining that we can take on new virtues with the new y...
Posted by VN Media on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:12:00 PST