Personal
Oxford-born, Bicester-based free-lance broadcaster/DJ
Gary is aged 45, married with one child.
Work
Background profession is chef to the hotel & restaurant trade – but with experience in college, private home, monastery & industrial catering.
Radio
Specialism and wide knowledge of Gospel
Worked on www.talkgospel.com and on www.newmerciescaferadio.com
Gary has broad experience of commercial and charity RSL’s: RFM / Soul FM / Crown FM as well working as Reading-based cable ‘radio’ station.
Occasional special seasonal contributions to BBC local radio.
Presented regular gospel music program ‘The Gospel Experience’ and The Sunday Morning Breakfast Show on 1170 – High Wycombe.
Promotional activity
¨ Black Music Festival July 27th 1997 in South Park, Oxford, featuring gospel singers from Oxford, Aylesbury and London.
¨ Organized for the Oxford City Council:
Martin Luther King Celebration 23.1.93 at Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre,
Oxford. Gospel concert at the BIG TOP – South Park Oxford 14.8.93.
¨ Help promoting visits of Gospel groups from the USA at the Oxford Playhouse:
¨ The Five Blind Boys of Alabama 31st May 1993 / The Mighty Clouds of Joy 20th July 1993.
¨ A series of local gospel concerts called VISIONS.
¨ Additionally, Gary was involved with the Oxford Community Gospel Choir directed by wife, Yvonne. The choir has been used to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation.
¨ Gary & Yvonne organized a choir to sing on Channel 4’s Big Breakfast 25.5.93.
DJ G is now on THE URBAN GOSPEL EXPERIENCE EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT FROM 7PM ON BBC RADIO OXFORD.
HE RECENTLY DJ-ED AT THE MICS in Monaco 2010 and will be going back in 2011