Kerry Dexter

HIGHLIGHTS

• Kerry Dexter's experience includes: contributing writer to The MTVi Group's's award winning music news site, SonicNet, correspondent for VH1.com, folk music editor at Barnes & Noble Online, contributing writer for the international folk and roots music magazine Dirty Linen , and many credits in other national publications, primarily for stories about artists in folk, world, roots, Americana, bluegrass, Hispanic, Celtic, and country music. She has recently accepted an assignment as a music correspondent at Gather, and she also hosts the blog Music Road.

  An experienced interviewer, Dexter's particular interests in music include the work of singer/songwriters, the music of Ireland and Irish America, and the musics of the Canada and the US/Mexico borderlands, the music of Scotland, and the many musics of Texas. At any given moment you might find her CD player hosting music by Austin country maverick Kelly Willis, Boston based Scottish style fiddler and composer Hanneke Cassel, Irish American songwriter Cathie Ryan, southern folk singer Caroline Herring, Mexican American composer Tish Hinojosa, eclectic folk group Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, or bluesman Chris Smither.

  She is a contributor to the MusicHound Guides to World Music and Classical Music, The Encyclopedia of Counter Culture, The Encyclopedia of Ireland and the Americas, and other reference works. Her work has also appeared on NPR and CBC. She covers the music industry as well as the artists, and has written music industry columns, features, and opinion pieces and has been a judge for several music awards programs.

  With a background as a television and radio producer, Dexter also covers other aspects of the entertainment industry, including broadcasting, music and intellectual property law, audio production, and marketing. With degrees in visual arts and history, she has written about these subjects and other performing and visual arts as well.

  She has degrees in art and history from Rollins College and has done graduate work at Florida State University.

• She is also an experienced photographer, specializing in live music performance.

RESUME

• Kerry Dexter
  specializes in stories related to music: artist profiles, interviews, music business, music law, reviews, historical pieces, and live event coverage in the roots music genres including folk, world, Americana, Texas, bluegrass, Latin, and country. Her credits include VH1.com, FolkWax, folk roots/magazine Dirty Linen, Acoustic Guitar, SonicNet, Paste, country.com, countrycompass, Bluegrass Unlimited, and others. Additional experience in writing and producing projects concerning law, broadcasting, visual arts, performing arts, goal development and motivation for creative professionals.
• Dexter is also an experienced television, radio, and audio producer and writer with work on legal issues, legislative coverage, and news as well as the arts.

CLIPS

• Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison play the Cactus Cafe in Austin, from VH1.
• interview with Linda Ronstadt about her work producing a classical album. from VH1
• Emmylou Harris speaks about her favorite music, books... and baseball team. from Barnes & Noble
• record company CEO, banjo player, and bandleader Alison Brown feature excerpt from a cover story at roots music magazine Dirty Linen
• The Americana Music Association Conference coverage and photographs, from Folkwax (site registration may be required to view)
• alt country writers and Grammy nominees Buddy and Julie Miller play live at 12th & Porter in Nashville complete with tooth brushes. from VH1 & SonicNet
• eclectic Hispanic composer and singer Tish Hinojosa plays the Austin airport from VH1.com
• Hanneke Cassel, Aoife Clancy, Robbie O'Connell, and others light up Cambridge winter nights at the Boston Celtic Music Fest, from FolkWax (site registration may be required to view)
• song poet Carrie Newcomer shares mature vision on Age of Possibility, from VH1
• Emmylou Harris talks songwriting, from VH1
• roots based quartet Crooked Still plays Galway City, Ireland , from FolkWax (site registration may be required to view)
• Motown meets Tipperary: Irish American singer songwriter Cathie Ryan talks songwriting and roots from Dirty Linen
• Kathy Mattea explores the holy and joyous at Christmas photos and story from FolkWax (site registration may be required to view)
• with a little help from her friends: Lee Ann Womack at SXSW from Folkwax (site registration may be required to view)
• Cathie Ryan live in Belfast, Northern Ireland from Folkwax (site registration may be required to view)
• Voices: Christine Albert and Chris Gage from Gather