INFORMATION   NEWS        ARTISTS   CONTACT About Pete Fornatale | Mixed Bag Team Photo Gallery | About Mixed Bag | Affiliate Stations MIXED BAG TEAM ------------------------------------------------------ Bill Kollar ------------------------------------------------------ Bill Kollar has spent 30 years as a music and radio producer/engineer, mastering engineer, sound designer, and teacher in the New York music scene. Besides having his own award winning production company, London By Night, he recently was the director of streamed media for Danny Goldberg's Artistent site and served as producer and engineer for Vin Scelsa's internet radio show Live At Lunch. Since 1996 he has been an instructor at Parsons School of Design. His clients include Time Warner, Razor and Tie Music, Rounder Records, Shanachie Records, AT&T, Warner Lambert, Sony, and Ricoh. Artists include Bananarama, Dar Williams, Merle Haggard, John Gorka and Shawn Colvin. ------------------------------------------------------ Chris Hall ------------------------------------------------------ Along with his duties at Mixed Bag Radio, Chris Hall is a vice president at a Manhattan based Internet Service Provider. From 1994 - 2001, he co=hosted a weekly radio segment for WEHM FM in East Hampton entitled "What's Making News on the Internet." The program took a look at music related web sites and the benefits and challenges that the Internet continues to bring to the music fan, artist and industry in general. In the Spring of 2000, Chris worked with Bill Kollar and Vin Scelsa and served as a consultant for wfrewireless, the streamed media project that was developed after Vin's Artistent.com program Live at Lunch. In the early '90s, Chris owned The Music Hall, an eclectic music shop located in Westfield, New Jersey. During that time, he became acquainted with Alison Steele and Jim Monaghan which led to his first association with New York radio. In 1993, The Music Hall began a weekly segment on the WNEW Morning Show with Pat Kelly that focused on songs that were officially released overseas, but never saw the light of day in the States. Chris combined his business and technological knowledge with his experience in the music business to assist in developing Mixed Bag Radio. Chris is an active member in his local community of East Hampton serving on the Board of Directors for a variety of business, civic, educational and charity organization. ------------------------------------------------------ Linda Feder ------------------------------------------------------ Linda Feder's career in radio and records has been characterized by a passion for people and music. Linda began her career at the legendary progressive rock station KSAN-FM in San Francisco where she later entered the record business as a local promotion rep for MCA Records. She was based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York where she served in various promotion capacities for MCA, Polygram, Jem and Rhino Records. During this time she promoted artists as varied as BB King, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Kiss, Bon Jovi, Loretta Lynn, Tears for Fears and John Hiatt to every radio format imaginable. Linda later became vice president of promotion at Private Music where she worked for six years with Etta James, Leo Kottke, Leon Redbone, Jennifer Warnes, Toots Thielemans, Yanni, and others. She was one of the co-executive producers of "A Very Special Christmas 3", a benefit CD for Special Olympics. After years of being a fan of New York radio and Pete Fornatale, Linda brought her years of experience to Mixed Bag Radio where she is vice president in charge of syndication.