Adam Duritz co-produced The Outlaw Roadshow music festival for seven years alongside Ryan Spaulding, Barbara Garrett, and Frank Germano before helping to found the Underwater Sunshine Fest this year. He loves music more than his phone and he loves his phone more than most people. In all honesty...it’s not really close. He also runs the Underwater Sunshine Podcast with his pal, journalist and author James Campion. In his spare time, he still likes to watch movies, write songs, sing on friend’s records, and plot world domination for Counting Crows.

Barbara started her music career working as a producer/booking agent for BalconyTV.com in Austin, Texas. During this time she helped produce The Outlaw Roadshow as well as some unofficial SXSW events. This lit a fire under her desire to advocate for musicians, joining the “Leaders in Austin Music” program and an appointment to a seat on the Austin Music Commission.

Lindsay is passionate about art, music, science and spending time outdoors. During the day she blends her marketing and technology expertise, creativity and inner gadget-geek to create memorable brand experiences. The rest of her time is spent crafting, hiking and rock hounding around New England, and listening to often over 300 new artists a week! A little known fact about Lindsay, she studied Planetary Science and Astrophysics at MIT.

Zoe is a writer and performer currently studying film at Hunter College in New York. In recent lives Zoe was an art model for internationally-renowned fine artists, a two-time AmeriCorps member, an operations manager for a large nonprofit, a project associate for a very small nonprofit, and for a couple of years staffed information desks and gift shops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, Zoe received world-class training on directing tourists to the bathroom. She also once found it herself.

By day, Holly is a non-profit extraordinaire. By night, she is a writer, lover and supporter of all things music. (Kind of like Hannah Montana but less likely to burst into song.) A music industry survivor, she has had the opportunity to work with or interview many of her idols such as Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Garth Brooks, Jewel, Kelsea Ballerini and more. She's also a proud member of a faux-band called The Silence - the best band you've never heard. When she's not taking pictures of her dogs, she's probably hiking, studying for her MBA or telling someone how much she loves living in Los Angeles. (Confession: she does prefer Shake Shake to In-N-Out though.)

Design, art, branding, storytelling, community, culture, making, drawing, painting, finding, doing, trying, failing, learning, and feeling… Locked in the never-ending pursuit of an elegant narrative, and devoted to helping humans connect through art and design. ( mofdesign.com / @mofdesign )

James Campion, co-host of the Underwater Sunshine podcast with his friend Adam Duritz, both of whom are currently working on a book together, is a syndicated columnist and contributing editor for the pop culture magazine, The Aquarian Weekly (inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame archive 2012), where he’s reported on and interviewed dozens of singer-songwriters and musicians and reviewed concerts and albums for over twenty years. His work has appeared in NY Newsday, North County News, Hackwriters, Huffington Post, among other periodicals and webzines, including the official KISS site, KISS Online. He is the author of six non-fiction works; Deep Tank Jersey: A Journey into the Soul of a New Jersey Club Band (Callalloo Press, 1996), Fear No Art: Observations on the Death of the American Century (BLAZO! Publishing, 2000), Trailing Jesus: A Holy Land Journal (Gueem Books, 2002) and Midnight for Cinderella: The Reality Check Papers – 2000-2005 (Booksurge – 2006), Shout It Out Loud – The Story of KISS’s Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon (Backbeat Books - 2015), Accidentally Like a Martyr – The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon (Backbeat Books - 2018) and one novel, Y (Gueem Books, 2013).

Ehud created and runs the Garden Sessions. He is also the video producer for the entire festival. Outside of his video work he is also a father and husband. His favorite mode of transportation is by scooter.

Katie was raised a record store crate-digger in Dallas, Texas, by two parents who had managed record stores before she was born. She’s currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Evansville, and has been fortunate enough to start a “How to Write about Music” course. She also teaches fiction and poetry. There is a very good professional picture of her at a radio station, taping a show with headphones on, but she has opted to use this photo of her at sixteen, which is indicative of both how she is surrounded by music and what a dork she is. She has an amazing husband and stepdaughter, and is grateful that they are both music junkies too. If you see her at the festival (red hair now), ask her about her David Bowie tattoos!

Felipe is a fine artist born in NYC and educated in NY and South Florida. Felipe has exhibited in Europe and America and currently exhibits in California, Connecticut and NY. He has worked with Counting Crows as fine artist and media designer, and has been involved in the art and music scene for over 30 years. He continues to work out of his Lexington studio and is currently part of the Underwater Sunshine design and production team.

Songwriter, band leader of Romantic Relevance, and visual designer. Loves colorful shoes, pepperoni pizza, pop music, and bad dancing.

More on Gus later ;)