Dave Nolan

com, and iTunes University's number one download for mid-2008 featuring George Carlin. He is also the technical producer for Newsweek On Air, Newsweek Magazine's weekly syndicated news radio program, which consistenly ranks in the top 50 podcasts worldwide in the News & Politics section of iTunes.

Since 2005, he has been the audio archivist and new media producer for the 92nd Street Y in New York City, producing programming from the Y's historic archive of literary, cultural, and political events for SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Audible.

From 2001 through 2005, he was the lighting director for B. B. King's Blues Club in New York City, where he produced light shows and effects for bands such as Parliament Funkadelic, Jefferson Starship, James Brown, Eartha Kitt, B. B. King, and hundreds of other artists.

From 1991 through 2001, he was the audio archivist for the historic spoken word record label Caedmon Records, where he produced award-winning reissues and new releases by such artists as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, and Pablo Neruda, gaining a Grammy nomination in 2000 as the producer of "Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection".

In 1988, he met Larry Bloch, the founder of the Wetlands Preserve nightclub in New York City, and worked there as audio archivist, lighting director, and DJ from the club's planning in 1988 and opening in 1989 through its demise in September of 2001. Many of the bands that gained notoriety by playing the club got their first New York radio airplay, or radio airplay of any kind, on Dave's "Live Air" program.

Dave Nolan began his career in music, radio, and audio production at New York's WBAI Pacifica Radio 99. 5 FM, where he was the host of "Dead Air", a Grateful Dead program from 1985 through 1989, and "Live Air" from 1989 through 1995, featuring the first known radio broadcasts of live music by such bands as Blues Traveler, Spin Doctores, Joan Osborne, and the Dave Matthews Band. While at WBAI, he produced several award-winning spoken word and poetry programs featuring recordings from St. Mark's Church in New York City's East Village as well as numerous other downtown New York venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

From 1985 through 1995, he was also the audio archivist and recording engineer for The Peotry Project at St. Mark's Church, where he recorded poets from Beat legends such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky to musicians such as Patti Smith, Philip Glass, and the Fugs.

From 1985 through 1991, he was an audio engineer and technical producer at WNYC New York public radio, acting as technical producer and engineer for the award-winning "Kids America", hosted by Kathy O'Connell and Larry Orfaly, as well as serving as the engineer for Leonard Lopate's "New York & Company" program.