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Award-Winning Flutist Composes Calusa-Inspired Music

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published February 27, 2019 at 11:41 AM EST

Kat Epple, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning composer and flutist, will perform at theMarco Island Historical Societyfor its 25th Anniversary celebration on March 5, in an event called “Calusa-Inspired Music & Storytelling.” The celebration features the permanent exhibit called “Paradise Found: 6,000 Years of People on Marco Island,” where Pre-Columbian artifacts discovered on the island are showcased.Epple joins us to play some of the Calusa-inspired music she composed that's part of the immersive exhibit, for which she used a conch shell, horn, bird-bone flute and wooden percussion.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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