About

Guy Brogna

Founder / NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA Bookings

Guy started out as a bass player at the age of seventeen and went right into performing music around Long Island. With a non-stop passion for music, he performed with many different acts, in all genres of music to build up his resume.

By the time Guy was twenty two, he was a professional recording and touring musician and successfully pursued this career from 1985-1995. During this time, Guy was part of two national acts – Ludichrist and Scatterbrain. They recorded three albums and released multiple videos as well as toured the nation, Europe and Australia as headliners and opening acts for The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins and many more. Guy’s band Scatterbrain was also hired to be on a major film and soundtrack for Pauly Shore’s “Encino Man” contributing their funked up cover of LL Cool J’s, Mama Said Knock You Out.

After coming off the road, Guy started a full-service landscape company and a used car lot, that he grew successfully for almost 8 years. He sold these businesses around 2003 and became a managing partner in a local music store, All Music Inc., where he has continued to grow the company and operate on location on a daily basis for the last twenty years. During this time, Guy also started a successful music school called “Rock and Roll University” which cultivated young students into performers within very short periods of time. Quite a few of their students have gone on to great things in the music business, including world renowned young guitar virtuoso “Taz” and others have also been highly successful in both live performance and other music-related businesses.

Guy is also an active partner in “Occupational Octaves Piano” program/publishing. He was instrumental in starting up from the ground floor. They have provided a music program for special needs students that has made learning the piano much more attainable to a group of individuals who may struggle to do most things we take for granted. They have recently brought this program into several assisted living communities on Long Island such as, The Bristal.

All while building the All Music Inc. business, Guy kept his hands in the performance side of music. Guy has recently been hired to play for several week long camps at the Glen Cove Mansion for both guitar virtuosos, Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert. Guy continues to play shows with his original bands a few times a year as his bands still have a following from 30+ years ago. He has also been hired to provide sound for major acts in small settings for Cox Media Group and Connoisseur Media.

In 2017, Guy started the company, G&R Events. He had successfully run the Jones Beach Bandshell since their inception as well as Nassau County Parks and has branched out to be part of many other shows, festivals and events around the NY area. This G&R Events is now bringing Long Island bands outside of NY to theaters in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland and is continuing to expand.

Rick Eberle

Founder / National Bookings

As a Record Executive, Rick Eberle made a name for himself working on online initiatives for artists such as Pink, Usher, Outkast, Avril Lavigne and others at Arista Records in NYC. He spent time in venue management and booking for The Downtown, presenting artists like Jewel, Fall Out Boy and Maroon 5. Rick has also had a long career in radio, including time at 92.7 WLIR FM and at 94.3 The Shark, where he was instrumental in the initial branding and launch of the station as Promotions Director. Rick has hosted Rising Stars Radio Monday nights at 10pm EST on 90.3 WHPC FM at Nassau Community College in Garden City since 2017. He also previously presented his “Rick’s Rising Stars” TV show on Fios1, which aired over 100 episodes. Additionally, he is an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist. As a BMI affiliated artist, several of Rick’s songs have been used by Nickelodeon on their shows “Drake & Josh”, “Zoey 101” and “iCarly”. 

Rick’s label services incubator Magnetic Vine offers record label/ film studio marketing services, publicity, social media, talent management and booking duties for venues, festivals, conventions, TV/radio stations, bands, artists, actors, authors, chefs, sports figures and companies of all kinds. In music, the company has successfully produced and promoted events with Long Island stars like Eddie Money, Ninedays, Alessi Brothers, John Coltrane Home, Sky Katz, Forever in Your Mind and other well known acts such as Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors, Sugar Ray, Zak Starkey of The WHO, Trey Songz, Peter Tosh Estate, Heavy Metal Hall of Fame, Jeffrey Gaines, Fun Lovin Criminals, Brooke Moriber, Ryan Leslie, Push Play and others. In film, the company has strategized promotion campaigns, run celebrity red carpets and handled onsite coordination at Film Festivals such as Long Island Film Expo, Long Beach Intl Film Festival and Gold Coast Intl Film Festival – which have included appearances by cinema heavyweights Ed Burns, Hugh Grant, Daniel Baldwin, Brian Dennehy, Paul Sorvino, Susie Essman, Phylicia Rashad, Baz Luhrmann and so many more. 

Rick is a Partner at G&R Events, which curates the Jones Beach Bandshell Summer Concert Series, many shows at Eisenhower Park Lakeside Theater, The Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay, the Summer Arts Festival at Chapin Rainbow Stage in Huntington and regularly brings in acts to other towns and municipalities as well as to theaters and venues across the east coast and beyond. Rick also worked with 501 C3 Non For Profit The Plaza Cinema & Media Arts Center in Patchogue, screening quality mainstream, independent, foreign films and operas and plays captured live from world stages, presenting series and festivals with guest speakers, offering field trips, classes, and workshops in filmmaking and animation.