(Co-Owner & COO)

After a decade serving large corporations, saas companies and nonprofits, I helped launch Pitchwire. With a clear vision to serve clients through a fully-integrated team approach, we ask questions that make a difference and empower our partners through strategy and action.

Our experts and specialists deliver a cross-pollination of services to nurture new relationships and create moments of joy and wonder. Through the lens of brand, stakeholder and customer perspectives, we reimagine brand loyalty and impact.

Our team has led companies through crisis, launched award-winning influencer and media relations campaigns and developed beautiful, compelling content.

(Co-Owner & Head of Content)

As co-owner and head of audio at Pitchwire, I am dedicated to our clients’ vision and focused on delivering unmatched content and sound production services. I have served as a producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, and spent more than a decade in the advertising and marketing sectors.

Today, our clients benefit from the support of our leading sound engineers, composers, content experts and podcast producers. We work with large corporations, nonprofits, award-winning production houses, and film producers across the U.S.

Our team is committed to creating content that entertains, engages audiences worldwide and inspires curiosity.

(Head of Visuals, Director)

Andrew, AKA Jandy, began working professionally as a freelance Photographer / Video Creator in 2016. Since then, he has done everything from in studio commercial product photography, traveling across the globe to capture on location client assets, to directing multiple large budget commercial shoots. His passion for visual imagery extends through his work, as well as his dedication to keeping his sets a fun and enjoyable work environment. Let’s work together!

(Production Sound, Producer)

Distantly related to the late country pioneer Roy Acuff, Boy Acuff hails from the same stomping grounds of East Tennessee. The EDM producer/DJ is the product of a childhood filled with Green Day, System of A Down, and Blink 182 followed by teenage years immersed in Daft Punk, Justice, and Skrillex. Boy Acuff has left behind the constraints of genres to join a new wave of artists ready to fuse sound from all arenas.

Boy Acuff has played countless shows in the East TN area including opening for Dillon Franis and Yung Gravt at Marathon Music Works, The Concourse (often to a sold out crowd of 500), Greasy Rock Campout, opened for acclaimed dubstep artist Minnesota at The Signal in Chattanooga, and has DJ'd well over 200 nights at his weekly residency at Literboard - a local college bar with a regularly packed room.

(Producer, Asst Director, Editor)

Shane began his journey in the world of film by cutting his teeth at the Knoxville Film Festival - where he developed a deep passion for the world of film production. He would continue to refine this passion on productions varying from true crime reenactment and commercial shoots, to social media and podcasting. He brings a wide array of skill sets to the table, from the start of pre-production all the way to final editing. 

(Composer & Producer)

Christina Horn is a classically trained American musician, composer and producer. She holds a Master's Degree in Music Performance and Composition from the University of Tennessee. Alongside her work as a production manager at Warner Bros. Discovery, she also acts as an international speaker, educator, and advisor. She is one of only 25 female Ableton Live Certified Trainers in the world, as well as an Avid Certified Instructor for Sibelius. Her recent experiences have included keynote presentations for Ableton, Berklee College of Music and Full Sail University.

(Artist)

Chris Blue is the youngest of seven children born in Polk County, Florida. Chris devoted his entire life to music. He went from “The Blue Family” at five-years-old to “The Blue Brothers” and then later decided to pursue a solo career at the age of twenty. After embarking on a world wind of great shows and sharing the stage with greats such as Kirk Franklin, Hezekiah Walker, Fred Hammond, Mary Mary, Usher and Alicia Keys. Chris is the winner of season 12 of the American talent competition The Voice.

(Composer)

Ben Maney is a pianist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter and composer based in Knoxville, TN. Ben has been performing on the Knoxville music scene for nearly 30 years exposing him to a variety musicians and musical styles ranging from Prog Rock to Delta Blues, free form Jazz Fusion to Americana. While performing with various bands, Ben has opened for nationally and internationally touring artists such as Johnny Winter, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Delbert McLinton, John Scofield, Pinetop Perkins, Acoustic Alchemy and The Turtles. Ben’s compositions are jazzy and classically-influenced and consist of solo piano pieces, ambient and atmospheric pieces.

(Composer)

From a young age, Mike was fascinated by the sounds in the world around him. Not only by the music he listened to voraciously, but the noises of the places, the creatures, and the machines he grew up around, sparking a passion that led him toward composition and production. Blending modern sound design with traditional compositional techniques, Mike creates landscapes of sound that range from fragile to frightening. With credits spanning film, television, and video games, as well as performance art and sound sculpture, Mike’s work is emotional, gripping, and effective.

(Artist & Songwriter)

Named after the Heart sisters themselves, Nancy Ann (Wilson) is a love child born of rock n’ roll and country. Hailing from a small town in Ohio named Medina, she grew up with the classic influences of Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Genesis and more. She combines classic songwriting styles with modern day storytellers like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Ed Sheeran. Nancy is now perusing a career in songwriting in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was named a semi-finalist on American Idol’s season 13.

(Artist & Songwriter)

Travis Tench is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and leads the indie rock band Tinca Tinca. The band features Owen Tharp on guitar and harmonies and Elyssa Hollifield on bass. Much like Spīńal Tap, they play with a different drummer each month.

Since starting in 2021, Tinca Tinca has been featured on WDVX, WUTK, Real Knoxville Music, and performed at an array of venues and festivals including the Tennessee Theatre, the historic Bijou Theatre, and live on WATE Channel 6 ABC. In the summer of 2023, Tinca Tinca began a delightful partnership with the Old City Performing Arts Center as an artist on the roster of their newly-formed performing arts label.

Prior to moving to Knoxville in 2019, Travis has played and sung as a member of an array of groups and projects around the world. As part of those groups, he’s had the good fortune to sing in Carnegie Hall, share the stage with Joan Baez, and open for Neil Young in the US and Canada.

His mission as an artist is to inspire joy, connection, hope, and progress through creativity and collaboration.

(Artist & Songwriter)

Hailed by Rolling Stone for his "celebratory mix of sharp storytelling and fist-pumping rock & roll swagger," Andrew Leahey is the frontman, lead guitarist, and chief songwriter behind the Nashville-based band Andrew Leahey & The Homestead. A three-time semi-finalist at the International Songwriting Competition, he creates music that explores the full range of rock, pop, and Americana, with highlights including "Start the Dance" (a Triple A hit from the band’s 2019 international breakthrough album, Airwaves) and "Guilty Man" (an Americana single from 2021's American Static, Vol. 1). In addition to his work as a frontman, Leahey remains a sought-after instrumentalist who regularly tours with outlaw country artist Elizabeth Cook and has backed many other artists, including Butch Walker, Drew Holcomb, Will Hoge, and Rodney Crowell. 

(Artist & Producer)

Jabroni is your gateway to unique, energetic ear-worms and sonic sculptures that flow like a river's groove. Stylistically he exists as an anomaly, dipping into various sanctums ranging from funk and jazz, to modern beat-making and sound-design heavy arrangements.

Jabroni is a multi-instrumentalist from Lynchburg, Virginia, and currently resides in Nashville Tennessee where he performs both his own project and with local talent, manages a recording studio, and mixes audio full-time. He appreciates the beauty in the world, and attempts to capture that inspiration in his everyday creative process.

(Artist & Songwriter)

As the keyboardist in The Dirty Guv’nahs, guitarist in Electric Darling and songwriter with numerous artists, Kevin values the spirit of collaboration and musical diversity. Songs that he has cowritten have been featured in a variety of TV shows including Lucifer, Nashville, and Catfish.

Kevin balances being a stay-at-home dad, performing live shows, and songwriting. In recent years he has learned to adapt to writing in an environment of constant chaos with screaming kids. Writing on walks, during naps, and late at night has led to a creative revival and collaboration on projects with producers and songwriters on the Pitchwire team.

His two decades of songwriting cover the genres of americana, rock, and pop music.