about

Wednesday, 7 PM

The Performance Hall

at ArtsPlace,

161 Mill St., Lexington

Host Adam Luckey

Adam is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina who spent his early years in the Piedmont region of South Carolina. Since relocating to the Bluegrass State he has slowly but surely allowed himself to be called a Kentuckian, embracing many of the cultural keystones of Kentucky but namely basketball, bourbon and banjos. Since graduating from Georgetown College in 1999 with an emphasis on communications and history, Adam has worked as an actor, director and educator, and has had the opportunity to work with many of the theatres in central Kentucky as well as teaching creative dramatics in multiple counties throughout the state.

Music is one of his big hobbies and he attempts to make a noise on any instrument he can get his hands on. With musical tastes covering Pop, Punk, Rock, Classical, Jazz, Bluegrass, Trad, and Folk, Adam has plenty of sound to choose from. Hardly one to call himself a multi-instrumentalist, Adam does enjoy makes noise on the guitar and bass, mandolin, banjo, drums and piano. Adam has always been enamored with musicians and has always been curious as to how the individual musician creates their art, either solo or with a group. "Having the ability to meet, talk and discuss the finer points of music with musicians is what is so very exciting to me when it comes to Red Barn Radio", he says.

Red Barn Radio showcases Old Time and Bluegrass musicians, both from our Commonwealth and neighboring states where Kentucky music has settled and flourished. In weekly conversation and performance with our talented guests, Red Barn Radio enlivens and archives Kentucky's musical heritage, and brings to the airwaves a uniquely refreshing and folksy hour of Americana programming.

Red Barn Radio is a syndicated weekly radio show produced from live recordings in Lexington and the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Our live tapings are open to the public and offer the live audience a unique opportunity to experience grassroots artists from Kentucky and around the globe. Then, our radio show brings this experience to our listening audience around the world.

We offer our one-hour program in the following formats:

- 59 minute public radio version with one :60 second break at the bottom of the hour.

- 59 minute version is available as a complete stream (parts one and two) or two separate streams.

- a :30 promo is also offered each week.

Executive Producer/Director Ed Commons

Film and Audio, and a bit of Museum research and A/v!

Film: My first film project was a “Roman Epic” filmed in glorious 8mm,

which I started in the 8th grade. Next to be produced, a high school

project for our exchange school in Germany, a “typical” day in the life of

our school, shot on 16mm with a wild audio track to run with the presen-

tation. I had not yet mastered “sync” sound recording. This was filmed

with the school’s Revere camera which I used to film football games for

the team. That was actually my first professional film experience, on top

of the press box, rain or snow, filming the games each week. Glorious

black and white!

Theater: After training at the Pittsburg Playhouse School of Theater, I

learned quickly that as an actor, choices for me were limited. My profes-

sional career began with my own record label and location audio service

in Pittsburg PA, Encore Electrical Recording Company. We specialized

mostly in location recording, dragging the Ampex 350-2 from site to site.

I missed the visual aspect of my training and soon my interest in film developed into a love of film, as it encompassed all of my interests from my theater experience; lighting, sound, photography, direction, and music.

Commercial Production: After moving to Lexington KY in the early 70‘s, I studied and honed my craft as a filmmaker, surrounded myself with as much production and artistic talent as I could find and established a full service film and video production company, House of Commons Films. It was through House of Commons that I shot and directed hundreds of television commercials and corporate (industrials as they were called) for what now reads as a “who’s who” of the Fortune 500.

I am particularly proud of the early work I did for Wichman Advertising and the Keeneland Thoroughbred Racetrack. For many years, we produced award winning spots that got my work noticed by clients such as KFC, Westinghouse, Dow Corning, Coca Cola, Domino’s Pizza (the first “30 Minute Man”), Firestone, Billy Beer, many banks and hospitals and restaurants all across the country who took advantage of the high production values I have always tried to bring to my work.

There were of course corporate presentations for clients such as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Mack Truck, Sperry Univac, the Gray Company and the beginning of a continuing relationship with Link Belt and now LBX. There were a group of projects for Fisher Scientific in Pittsburgh, outrageous fun, and many more.

In more recent years, projects included research and A/V production for the University Of Kentucky Basketball Museum, and the Music Museum and Hall of Fame in Renfro Valley KY. It is out of this latter Museum Experience that the seed of Red Barn Radio was born.

Currently: I am working on a project in Wyoming, a history of the Bighorn Basin, as seen through the eyes of an icon of that region, Bob Edgar, a writer and historian of the old west. Out of this experience, a spinoff, the creation a DVD program “Tales of Old Trail Town” with Clay Gibbons, Cowboy Historian, Worland and Cody Wyoming.

Some of my most recent work, IN DREAMS AWAKE, is a documentary about the life of a Kentucky artist who was also one of my film crew members, Bill Petrie. In the film, you will see stills and footage from some of the shoots mentioned in this bio. It was a work of love!

Red Barn Radio: Continuing on the location audio aspect of my early career, I now produce and direct a weekly syndicated radio program of Bluegrass Music, all recorded “live”, called Red Barn Radio. It is a challenge “to hit the marks” and a lot of fun. The musicians that we feature each week are an inspiration with their knowledge and musical craftsmanship. Red Barn Radio is now in its eleventh broadcast season, performing, promoting and preserving the Music of Kentucky.