{"id":1560,"date":"2013-08-07T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:42:13","slug":"joey-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/joey-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 73: Singer\/songwriter “Le Professeur”, Joey Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 73
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0August 3
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Joey Charles
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Local music artist Joey Charles, better known as \u201cLe Professeur\u201d, grew up in Waterville, Maine.\u00a0\u00a0Charles taught himself how to play guitar in high school, because he wanted music to go along with his poetry.\u00a0 Charles recently released an EP on iTunes, titled \u201cTales of a Wandering Heart\u201d<\/a>, under his stage name Le Professeur.\u00a0 His songwriting inspiration comes from his experiences traveling to all 50 states and abroad to other countries.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe in the studio with local music artist, Le Professeur, Joey Charles (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Charles received his Master\u2019s degree as an ESL Language Instructor from Columbia International University.\u00a0 Charles moved to Guam in 2011 to teach English as a foreign language, at the Pacific Islands University.\u00a0 Charles told Stevoe about his travels through the Pacific islands, his adoration with Guam’s culture and the country’s music scene.<\/p>\n

After volunteering at the Guam International Film Festival, Charles decided on making \u201cLe Professeur\u201d his stage name.\u00a0 Charles became very involved in the Guam Open Mic scene, after his first visit to the Java Junction Coffee Shop.\u00a0 Charles formed a relationship with the owner of the coffee shop and what started as Thursday open mic nights, turned into Friday and Saturday nights as well.\u00a0 His involvement in the open mic demographic spurred from his desire to give the opportunity for voices to be heard and to contribute to the local community through the arts.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods, host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, welcomed Maine native, singer\/songwriter, Le Professeur, Joey Charles into the studio. The two talked about how they recently met on an airplane from Chicago to Portland, and that Charles was just returning home from Guam. Charles told Stevoe about his time in Guam teaching English, and how he came to admire their amazing culture. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}