A Tribute to The Godfather of Soul - James Brown - on The Halli Casser-Jayne Radio Show

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, D.C. - June 18, 2013 - PRLog -- WASHINGTON, D.C.  — In celebration of African-American Music Appreciation Month, Wednesday, June 19, 3 pm ET, The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds salutes the Godfather of Soul, the one and only James Brown with his daughter Deanna Brown Thomas; RJ Smith, author of the definitive James Brown biography THE ONE; Jason Eamons, the Director of Curatorial Affairs at EMP Museum, along with a few surprise guests. Be sure to tune in.

Deanna Brown Thomas, humanitarian, entrepreneur, radio & TV personality, actress and writer is President of The James Brown Family Children Foundation (JBFCF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created according to the wishes of James Brown.

RJ Smith’s THE ONE is the definitive biography of James Brown, not only presenting the first complete portrait of his personal life, but also placing Brown in his proper place in the pantheon of popular culture icons. Nominated for an NAACP award and hailed by Janet Maslin of The New York Times as one of the top books of 2012, Smith has been an editor at Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, GQ, Spin, Blender, Details, and Yeti.  

Jason Eamons is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at EMP Museum, which was founded by Microsoft’s co-founder, Paul Allen and opened in June 2000 in a building designed by Frank Gehry. The EMP Museum explores the artists and ideas that fuel popular music and pop culture.

Conversation is an art, and Halli Casser-Jayne is the artist of conversation. Tune into The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, Wednesday, June 19, 3 pm ET for an hour of fascinating radio on BlogTalkRadio.com.

The Halli Casser-Jayne Show is one of the premier shows on the BlogTalkRadio Network, the world’s largest live online talk radio network that attracts over 20 million listeners. Podcasts of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show are available on multiple networks including iTunes, and via apps in multiple formats. For additional details and to download previous interviews, visit www.hallicasser-jayne.com.
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Halli began her radio career on “The Dick Summer Show” on WYNY in New York City and has also worked as a reporter and photographer; actress and documentary producer; radio personality; author, editor and publisher. Her radio show, The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, features stellar guests from the world of politics, books, art, culture, and celebrity. Recent guests of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show have included Gloria Feldt, former CEO of Planned Parenthood; actresses Diane Ladd and Linda Evans; comic legend Carl Reiner, Andy Dick, bestselling authors Kristin Hannah, Jackie Collins, Brad Meltzer, Naomi Wolf, Camille Paglia; political pundits and journalists Joan Walsh, Roger Simon, Matthew Cooper; Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Danny Danon, Ambassador (Ret.) Yorum Ettinger, two-time Pulitzer prizewinner political cartoonist Jim Morin, Broadway stars Russell Fischer and Rebecca Pitcher. The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, a production of RESSAC LLC, airs Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 4 p.m. EST on BlogTalkRadio.com. For more information,visit  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thehallicasserjayneshow/2013.... Like the show’s page on Facebook , http://www.facebook.com/hallicasserjayne, and follow Halli on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/HalliCJ.