Katie Talbert
If there’s a way to uplift people with music, then Katie Talbert has figured it out. The St. Petersburg creative and community advocate is a fixture in the local songwriter scene who not only curates the UNFUN DJ night, but helps drive nonprofit operation CoExist which not only provides instruments and lessons to local foster kids but puts them in front of bands like Portugal. The Man. “We don’t just want them to learn how to play music , we want them to learn how to love music,” she once told CL.
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This article appears in Sep 19-26, 2019.
