PMC Team
| Paul Cripps | Executive Director |
| Lisa Mattei | Event Director |
| Dinky Dawson | Sound Engineer, Stage Manager |
| Jon LaMaster | Programming Director, Jazz and Rock |
| Andrew Alexander | Programming, Classical |
| Grace Rudolph | Publicity Director |
| Chuck Allen | Audio Engineer, Consultant |
| Leslie Allen | Art Director, Special Events |
| Iris Gallagher | Graphic Designer, Web Programmer |
| Richard Rogers | Website Programmer (PCDC) |
| Tricia Byrnes | Consultant |
Advisors
| Howie Altholtz | Entertainment Attorney, Musician |
| Steven Karyodanes | The Plymouth Philharmonic |
| Beth MacLeod | Director of the Duxbury Conservatory |
| Harry Carey | Handle Bar Harry’s |
| Kathleen McKinn |
FEATURED BIOGRAPHIES
Author, producer, engineer and designer, Dinky Dawson is a legend in the music industry, a true innovator and visionary in the field of sound. He has worked with artists from the entire spectrum of music from Fleetwood Mac and Randy Newman to Liberace and Carol Channing in “Hello Dolly” to Miles Davis and New Kids on the Block.
Beginning as a disk jockey in England, he became an important contributor to London’s music scene in the 1960’s. As the original Fleetwood Mac tour manager and sound engineer, he was the first to mix from the front of house position (in the audience). Dawson designed and operated systems for Watkins Electric Music (the sound company for the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix). Immigrating to America as the sound engineer for The Byrds, he created Dawson Sound Company, developing a revolutionary line array, acoustic suspension system with a center vocal cluster that toured with Steely Dan, The Kinks, Joan Baez, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Warren Zevon, Orleans and others. It was the first sound company to tour the USSR on a B. B. King State Department sponsored tour. As a studio and live recording consultant, he has worked in major studios in the US and England with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, the Byrds, Orleans, Ambrosia, Lou Reed, Chris Whitley, Inner Circle, and Joan Baez.
Dinky has installed sound system in clubs (Boston’s Paradise, Nick’s Comedy Stop, and the Channel) and other institutions (Harvard University, Bridgewater State College, South Shore Music Circus, and Ansche Chesed Temple). He has been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music and writes for Mix Magazine and Musician Magazine. His 1998 autobiography Life on the Road, The Incredible Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures of Dinky Dawson, co-written with Carter Alan, was published by Billboard books. Dinky’s archival tapes of concerts from the sixties and seventies have been released through partnerships with Ryko Disc and Sony Music. Complete information may be found at his website, www.dinkysworld.com.
Multi-instrumentalist Jonathan LaMaster (violin, bass, guitar, and trumpet) has been a fixture in Boston’s burgeoning rock and experimental music scene since 1996. Whether it is performing instrumental rock music with Cul de Sac or Bright, touring with vocalist Damo Suzuki from the early 1970’s incarnation of German rock legends Can, playing fiddle with “country-fried metal” act Slim Jim and the Mad Cows, performing live music to such classic silent films as “Der Golem”, “Faust” or “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, composing music for films such as Roger Corman’s “The Strangler’s Wife” (New Concorde, 2002) and "Above the Below", a documentary shot on 35mm about magician/performance artist David Blaine (directed by Harmony Korine and produced for Sky One television in Britain, now available on DVD), or improvising in idioms sometimes labeled “free improv” or “free jazz”, LaMaster has used Boston as a base of operation for his artistic endeavors since 1993, including recent tours to Canada, Europe, Russia and Asia. He has also run the Sublingual Records label since 1998 (www.sublingual.com).
LaMaster has performed and/or recorded with the Alloy Orchestra, guitar innovator Elliott Sharp, Roger Miller (from Mission of Burma), and with such legendary improvisors as Peter Kowald, William Parker, Peter Brotzman, Daniel Carter, Laurence Cook, and Dennis Warren’s Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble. He has also written and performed original music for dance, collaborating with both Nichola Hawkins and Carrey McKinley, and performed regularly with “Living Theatre” actor Rain House from 1997 to 2000.