ABOUT US
VUA STAFF
Kate Baldwin, Business Director
The great overseer of many things, Kate’s responsibilities include artist relations, contract negotiations, royalty accounting and whatever else needs to be done on the business side of things. For over a decade she has been active in PR and artist management and is currently vice president of TownHall Records, a label that was started before she was even born!
John LaSala, & Chris Torgersen, Artistic Directors
John is an ardent composer, coffee snob, and dreamer. His debut album, the award-winning soundtrack to The Snow Queen, an off-off Broadway dance theater production, was released on TownHall Records. It was hailed “worthy of instant classic status.” John wholeheartedly stands by the belief that if you don’t French—er... "Freedom" press your coffee, then it isn’t really coffee. John is pretty sure dreams are real.
Chris is a native New Yorker who recently relocated back to NYC with his family to—among other things—pursue his goal of living off his music. He is an experimental/progressive rock keyboardist and composer and particularly likes weird meters, chord progressions, and Mallomars. Chris is pretty sure reality is an illusion.
The Very Us Artists is John’s brainchild and the longtime realization of a dream where the plenitude of creative people he knows (and would like to know) should all “do stuff” together. John and Chris have been musical partners for many years, since they met in college where their first hare-brained scheme was a staged, full scale rock opera.
