Company Bio
Summary
Scott McLain founded Heybro Productions in 2004. The company, based in Raleigh NC, had the objective to help regional artists reach the level of national touring acts. Heybro's strong field base throughout Virginia and North Carolina has contributed greatly to their success.
Hardworking, outgoing and positive people are this company's greatest asset. Heybro prides itself on building promotional and marketable plans while expanding appeal to new audiences. This company does its best to place a balance between the desires of clients and the needs of artists. When bringing artists together with the marketplace Heybro productions feels they maintain a sense of honesty and togetherness. A combination to leave all parties completely satisfied.
All of the details of your next event can be handled by Heybro. Specializing in organization and production of grassroots-style music festivals like Camp Barefoot and Mannerland. Providing full sound and light production in addition to supplying your ideal choice of entertainment.
HeyBro Staff
Scott McLain
CEO, Production Organizer/Artist Management
Scott McLain owner and president of heybro productions was born and raised from Virginia Beach, VA and while growing up he first fell in love with the music of roots reggae. He luckily met up with a Jamaican based reggae band called Zion Wave that had relocated to Norfolk, VA for music endeavors. He became a stage rodie and stage technician for the band and eventually went on a national tour for about 3yrs. He teamed up and became a stage technician for such national acts as Eek a Mouse, The Wailers, Israel Vibrations, Culture, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, and even well known Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers where he built up experience in the music business. Eventually Scott realized it was time to move on and go back to school which he graduated from New River Community College with a degree in Instrumentation Technology. Once he graduated he then relocated to Raleigh, NC where he met Barefoot Manner. He has worked with Barefoot Manner now for about 2yrs. Now Scott has created a team of motivated and educated production crew to put together well thought out Grassroots festivals and well produced events.
Danny Hewitt
(CFO)
Danny Hewitt was born into the tax industry. In 1982 his father, John Hewitt, and mother, Linda Hewitt, founded Jackson Hewitt Tax Service starting with 6 stores. Jackson Hewitt was sold in January of 1998 for $483 million dollars with 1,345 offices. In 1997 Danny and father co-founded Liberty Tax Service to form the fastest growing income tax company ever. This year Liberty ranks #23rd on Entrepreneur magazine's prestigious list of Top 500 Franchises. Not only did we make the Top 500 Franchise list (for the 10th year in our short 11 year history), but we are #6 on Entrepreneur's list of Low-Cost Franchises and 9th on their Fastest Growing Franchises list. The ratings are based on financial strength, stability, growth rate, size of the system, start-up costs and financing options. Danny has played a key role in developing strategic marketing plans for the entire United States and Canada. Danny has written and delivered the marketing training for Liberty Tax Service for 5 years. He has also been a featured speaker in many large venues such as UNLV and Purdue University speaking about the effectiveness of Guerrilla Marketing. Danny became CEO/President of D&S Tax LLC, an area development company of Liberty Tax Service since early 2002. Danny is currently and employee of Liberty Tax Service and serves as VP of Guerrilla Marketing.
Robert McLain
Accounting & Business Development
Robert Allen McLain, known as Bob to everyone, was born on September 12, 1947 in Middlesboro, Kentucky. After completing his BA in mathematics, he began a distinguished career (33 years) as a software engineer for the Department of Defense (DoD). Subsequently, during his tenure with the DoD, he completed a BS and MS in computer science from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Now, semi-retired, he is an adjunct professor of information technology and computer science at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Currently, he resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia with his lovely wife, Anne, of 32 years. He is responsible for heybro productions accounting and business development.
Harrison Montgomery
(Talent Buyer Assistant / Management Assistant)
Harrison Montgomery is the newest member of the Hey Bro team and loves the chance to help musicians realize their full potential. Harrison grew up in a tiny north Alaskan coastal village where he worked on commercial crab fishing vessels. One of the most dangerous jobs in the world, crab fishing claimed many lives of his friends and co-workers. Harrison needed a fresh start and decided to pick up and move to Virginia Beach, VA to pursue a career in semi-pro wrestling. He figured wrestling people can't be harder than wrestling crab pots to the deck of a moving boat in turbulent, frigid waters. He met TJ Ucciardi, an avid fan of wrestling, at one of his matches in Richmond, VA. TJ talked him into working with Hey Bro because he knew that if Harrison could wrestle crab pots as easily as he could wrestle humans, he was perfect material to help the management team at HeyBro Productions.
Trevor Reynolds
Website & IT
Trevor comes from a diverse background of over 9 years of UNIX Administration,
and Network Systems engineering, relating to VoIP Telephony & and
Internet Services. He has also been designing websites for roughly the same
ammount of time, and is well versed in most of the technologies being used today.
His design skills range from using Photoshop & Dreamweaver for general design,
to custom coding PHP & HTML by hand.
Visit Trevor's personal website.
Brent Davis
East Coast Representative
Brent Davis was born and raised in Virginia Beach, VA, and now lives in Norfolk, VA. He is a long time friend of Scott McLain and began rod eying with him for Jamaican Reggae band, Zion Wave. He later worked with other Reggae bands and artists such as; Steel Pulse, Eek A Mouse, the Wailers, and Burning Spear. His past endeavors have helped him gain experience with communicating in the business of music and the artists themselves. Now he is working with Heybro Productions in the Virginia area wanting to spread the positive and good vibes music can give. He is the Eastern Region Artist Representative where he inquires and researches up and coming artist along the east coast.
Hilary Ucciardi
Artistic Coordinator
A graduate of Longwood University (formerly Longwood College) with a BA in Fine Arts, concentration in Graphic Design. Named after Sir Edmond Hilery, she has conquered Half Dome at Yosemite...well almost...It just got too darn crowded up there. When she is not collecting salt and pepper packets from fast food restaurants you can find her at her iMac workin. hard for HeyBro. Oh--and she loves the beach on rainy days and in 2005, earned a blue ribbon in the Virginia State Fair.
TJ Ucciardi
Crew & Production Manager
I grew up in a small section of Virginia Beach known as Windsor Woods. It was your typical suburban neighborhood with cookie cutter houses. So just like every teenager I wanted to get the hell outta dodge. I ended up heading to this small college called Longwood in Farmville, Virginia. At first, the whole going to class thing didn't appeal to me until I ended up having to head back to the beach due to this thing called academic suspension. Thats when my life crossed paths with Mr. Scott Mclain. We ended up taking some community college classes together. While hanging out we listened to a lot of reggae music and knew we had to tighten up. So I ended up back at school and finished Longwood with a Bachelor of Science. I am currently employed with Stafford County in Virginia. I did get my dream house in the country with my ol' lady and two dogs so life is good. Now for this positive energy called HeyBro. Music has always been a powerful force in my life. From dancing with my mom in the kitchen, to blowing my speakers, to having a great time driving strangers to a concert, to being so depressed then popping in that tune that makes you smile, to meeting my wife, to that feeling you get when the lights go down and the crowd erupts, to meeting life long friends that will do anything for you. Here at HeyBro I just want to be able to provide a good vibe and let the music do its work.
Brian McLain
Stage Management
Brian McLain was born and raised in Virginia Beach, VA and has been all around the country with jam bands like Grateful Dead and Phish. Being on the road for a couple years gained experience of how the music business was like on the road and how to accommodate to different venues. Brian is currently enrolled at Old Dominion University and is expected to graduate in the spring of 2007. Brian has taken the roll of stage management to communicate to the artist and bands on the music level to make sure they are satisfied by the musician standpoint.
Phil Seaford
Stage & Sound Engineering
Phil Seaford was born and raised from Virginia Beach, VA. He went to school for sound engineering which he became certified and has worked with many well known studios around the Hampton Roads area over the years. He eventually and luckily teamed up and worked for the well known studio perfectionists The Neptune.s for at least 2 and half years and helped mix and record national acts such as Justin Timberlake, Jewel and many others. Well with Phil being Scott.s cousin they have teamed up for a powerful duo for producing and organizing music events.
Giggles
Sales & Marketing
Giggles was born with the plain old, regular name of Sarah Gathright. She quickly earned Giggles in Farmville, VA at Longwood University where she had so much fun they simply gave her a diploma. Giggles loves a fat bass line, a funky beat, and moving her feet on the dance floor. When she's not groovin' to the music, she's probably wandering across America insearch of the four states in which she hasn't step foot.
Matt Greer
Lighting Engineer
Matthew Greer is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and received a BA in Painting and Printmaking. Better known simply as 'Greer', his involvement with the music industry began as a performance painter. He produced numerous paintings in a variety of venues, charged by the experimental music of The Grove. With a strong visual background, he later focused his energy towards lighting design and production. He's worked with bands such as Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Nickel Creek, The Charlie Daniels Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Umphrey's McGee, and MOE just to name a few. Currently, he is the lighting designer for The Grove, Existor, the Aquabatics and Barefoot Manner.
With the help of intelligent lighting fixtures and a programmable console, his thoughtful and innovative design creates an extremely visual performance. He attempts to tastefully accompany the musical changes during the performance, and paints a unique 3-D environment for both the musicians and the audience to share. Greer continues to produce graphics, screen prints, and paintings. Keep an eye out for his work this coming summer with him joining the Heybro crew his calendar will be full for sure. You might need your shades late night at Camp Barefoot!
