Chairman James Faith is the owner of James Faith Entertainment & Productions, and is a promoter and producer who has been booking entertainment and producing shows, large and small for over 30 years. For the past 7 years he was General Manager, and responsible for booking the 7000 seat Brookhaven Amphitheatre Arts & Cultural Center in Farmingville. He is the co-founder (with Dennis Wilson) of the "Count Basie Orchestra, Invitational High School Scholarship Festival", a two day scholarship event that awarded over $80,000 in college scholarships to graduating high school seniors heading for music related colleges and universities. He is currently working with the LIMHoF to present this event in 2012 where they plan to award up to a half million dollars in scholarships, the largest amount in the history of Long Island.

Jim has promoted or produced: Tony Bennett, the Beach Boys, Marilyn Manson, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Alice Cooper, Dave Brubeck, Cheap Trick, B.B. King, Dr. John, the Count Basie Orchestra, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Mountain, Hot Tuna, Pat Benatar, Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart & Bill Kreutzman, Michael Feinstein, George Benson, James Cotton, Squeeze, Debbie Harry, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Ashanti, Train, Blue Oyster Cult, Vanilla Fudge, String Cheese Incident, Foghat, Judy Collins, Spyro Gyra, Eric Burdon, moe., Steve Winwood, WAR, and many, many more! (Full list upon request). He is also the producer of several successful festivals including The Great South Bay Music Festival in Patchogue and the American Music Festival in Port Jefferson, and has produced events at the Tilles Center, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Staller Center, Lincoln Center, and fundraisers for WLIW Channel 21, St. Charles Hospital, and of course, the 2006 and 2008 LI Music Hall of Fame Induction Awards Galas, featuring Billy Joel, Joan Jett, LL Cool J, Alec Baldwin, Johnny Maestro, Little Anthony, DMC, and a host of others.

James is Chairman and a founding member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, and is a member of LI Cares Entertainment Committee.

Executive Vice Chairman Jeffrey James is an arts consultant who has worked with many composers, instrumentalists, conductors, orchestras and chamber ensembles and arts related organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America since 1981. He was Operations Manager for Long Island's Nassau Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1991, when he opened Jeffrey James Arts Consulting. He is the Executive Director of the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition and a juror and Special Adviser for the Ibla International Music Competition in Italy. He is President of 4Tay Records and created ClassicalCDs.net, an Internet-based sales outlet for independent CD companies and International Composer, an interview site that debuted in Spring 2004. Locally, he has served on the Boards of Directors of the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, the American Chamber Ensemble, the Gemini Youth Symphony, the New York Foundation for the Arts SOS Panels, the NY State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program Advisory Board and the LI Arts Council at Freeport. He lives in Farmingdale with his wife Lisa, a renowned poet. His website is at http://www.jamesarts.com

2nd Vice Chairman Norm Prusslin is Director of the Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Minor/Living Learning Center programs at Stony Brook University. A member of the SBU staff/faculty for 33 years, Prusslin has also served as General Manager of WUSB 90.1FM and Advisor to all student media organizations at SBU. Prusslin is President of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (the nation's largest college radio station membership organization) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the L.I. Press Club Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is a member of College Media Advisors, the Radio-TV News Directors Association and the Broadcast Education Association. Prusslin holds an adjunct teaching appointment at Five Towns College and is a recipient of the Hall's Long Island Sound Award for lifetime contributions to the music community on Long Island.

3rd Vice Chairman, Education Advisory Board Chairman Tom Needham is the current host/executive producer of New York's longest-running film-related radio show, WUSB's The Sounds of Film. His documentary, Countdown to X-Day, won the Long Film Festival's best documentary award. He also produced and hosted the successful Manhattan cable show, New York Jazz, which featured jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, Stanley Jordan, Cyrus Chestnut and Lionel Hampton. Tom has also been a leading Long Island educator. For over ten years, he has been in charge of Floral Park Memorial High School's Gifted and Talented Program, as well as an English and Media teacher.

Secretary Beth Krakower is the founder of CineMedia Promotions, an independent publicity, radio and web promotions firm that specializes in film score, soundtrack and cast album recordings. Over the past ten years she has promoted close to 400 soundtrack recordings including the soundtracks for A.I Artificial Intelligence, A Beautiful Mind, Atonement, Catch Me If You Can, The Chorus (Les Choristes), Crash, Enchanted, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, Frida, Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Kite Runner, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Motorcycle Diaries, Munich, The Patriot, Pride and Prejudice, Road To Perdition, The Village, all of which either earned Academy Awards or nominations in the Best Original Song or Score categories.

Raised in Massapequa Park (Farmingdale school district), Beth was a trained violinist and violist. She participated in NYSSMA, spent two summers studying at USDAN, performed with the Training Orchestra (under the direction of Paul Rudoff) and as part of LISFA and NMEA every year she was eligible. Her senior year of high school, Beth was selected as an All-State violist.

In 1989 Beth became a disc jockey and soon after the Morning Show Host of 99Rock in Hanover, New Hampshire. After a brief stint as General Manager of the station in 1992, she left broadcasting to work as a rock radio promotions person for various record labels. In 1998 she formed CineMedia Promotions.

For eight years Beth served as the New York Chapter Manager of Film Music Network and was Assistant Program Director of www.filmmusicradio.com. She is an Adjunct Professor at CUNY/Baruch College, works annually at the press desk for the Telluride Film Festival, and her volunteer work includes serving on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth College Broadcasting and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. In 2008 she earned the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award from Dartmouth College.

Treasurer Mark G Gresser DPM Known far and wide - across Long Island and into Memphis - as Doc Blues, Mark Gresser's CD reviews and cogent commentary on the Long Island music scene is much appreciated by readers of glossy periodicals. He has served as Music Editor at The Improper, is the Chief Editor of Backyard Blues and is a regular contributor to Long Island Pulse magazine. A founding director and currently the President of the Long Island Blues Society, Mark is often heard on the air at WUSB 90.1FM as a blues and zydeco programmer, and presents the blues news on RadioX. Very active in the community, he serves as Vice President of the Miller Place-Mount Sinai CDM Chamber of Commerce, and is the promoter/programmer for the annual Cedar Beach Music Festival in Mount Sinai. Through the LIBS, Mark has brought many nationally and internationally renowned artists to Long Island, including Corey Harris, Hans Theessink, Mitch Woods, Bob Malone, Chris Thomas King, Rod Piazza and Studebaker John. He has been instrumental in developing events which benefited breast cancer research and autism awareness, and has also volunteered as Chief Medical Officer at the Clearwater and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals. He emceed for 10 years at the Blues 2000 and Beyond festival, and was awarded a "Blues Angel Award" by the LIBS in 2004. Mark is a board certified podiatric physician in private practice since 1985 at North Country Podiatry with offices in Mount Sinai and Center Moriches. He received his NYS Secondary Science Teacher Certification in 1999, and is presently an Associate Adjunct Professor at Briarcliffe College. Mark and his wife Carolyn have two children, and live in Mount Sinai. www.liblues.org

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Richard Arfin Richard Arfin grew up in Massapequa Park during "The Long Island Sound" days and followed them into a career in the entertainment business, from radio through Internet to Podcasting. In 1969, at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, he was Assistant Head of Security. In the early '70s, he worked at WNEW-AM and WNEW-FM in New York, and was Music Producer/Co-Manager of The Dixie Hummingbirds when they won Best Soul Gospel Grammy Award in 1972. He has published numerous copywritten pieces of music, produced recordings, written articles about Long Island rock history for Rolling Stone, Bim Bam Boom, Crawdaddy, Goldmine, et al. Richard has a long history of community involvement: he has served on the Advisory Board of Make-A-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County, on the President's Council of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island, was a member of Founder's Circle, Promote Long Island Inc., and was Vice President of LongIsland.Org. An early proponent of the internet, he was Founder and President of Long Island Online Services, Inc. d/b/a Long Island Globalink starting in 1992. Richard is President and C.E.O. of Podarama Studios, LLC. www.podarama.com His article ''Beaches, Bars and B-3's: A History of Rock and Roll on Long Island'' can be found online at our website, www.limusichalloffame.org Richard has two grown daughters and resides in East Hampton.

David Baram David Baram began producing concerts while a student at Hofstra University in 1972, working with Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Billy Joel, Miles Davis and others. In 1976, he was employed by Phil Basile and Concerts East as House Manager at the Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, Long Island, and eventually went on to produce shows for Concerts East at the Nassau Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Shea Stadium, Providence Civic Center and large scale concert venues throughout the northeastern United States. Following his years with Concerts East, Baram joined with Michael 'Eppy' Epstein in operating the legendary My Fathers Place Nightclub, in Roslyn, New York. MFP was well-known for its long-running Tuesday night live radio broadcasts on WLIR-FM, weekly reggae concerts, and nightly presentations of world famous artists in a relaxed club setting. Taking a cue from their love of reggae music, Eppy and David also branched out into full scale tour production, booking, and management for many major reggae performers as well. While at My Fathers Place, Baram enrolled in Hofstra Law School, and began his second career as an attorney in the 1980s. For the past twenty years, he has been a partner in the Law Firm of Baram and Kaiser, specializing in transactional, contract and business law, civil litigation and bankruptcy. Baram & Kaiser maintains offices in Garden City and Long Beach, New York.

Through the years Baram has worked with artists such as Aerosmith, Santana, James Brown, The Allman Brothers, Billy Joel, The Police, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, Jethro Tull, Kiss, ZZ Top, Neil Young, Count Basie, Hot Tuna, Jerry Garcia, Yes, The Ramones, and countless others. For more than a decade Baram has also been the chairperson of the Board of Directors of Long Beach Reach, Inc, a non-profit organization providing a comprehensive range of professional services for individuals and families.

Ernie Canadeo Ernie Canadeo is the President and CEO of The EGC Group, an advertising and marketing company based in Melville.

Ernie started EGC in 1985 after working as an advertising manager for RCA Records. Since then, he has built EGC into Long Island's largest advertising and digital marketing agency, with over 40 employees and a client roster that includes many national, regional and local clients.

Ernie personally gives back much to the Long Island business and not for profit community. He was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by Advancement for Commerce, Industry, and Technology (ACIT) in 2011 and the Long Island Man of the Year by the Suffolk Community Council in 2008. He sits on many of the most prominent not for profit boards on Long Island including The Long Island Association, where he is also a member of the Executive Committee; the Thomas Hartman Foundation For Parkinson's Research, The United Way of Long Island marketing committee, the Stony Brook University alumni board, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, and the LIA Health Alliance, New York's Health Insurance Exchange.

He is an avid music lover and collector, and has over 5000 albums in his collection. He lives in Oyster Bay Cove with his wife and twin 14-year old boys.

Rob Dodaro is the Chief Financial Officer of D’Addario & Company, Inc., a world leading manufacturer of musical instrument strings, reeds, drumheads, drumsticks and other musical instrument accessories, marketed in approximately 120 countries.

Rob graduated Cum Laude from Hofstra University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, specializing in Accounting, and immediately thereafter received his CPA license.  After spending 6 years with the accounting firm Ernst & Young as an audit manager, working with a diverse array of clients, Rob began his journey in private industry and directing various levels of corporate financial responsibility before starting with D’Addario in 1999.

Rob is a lifelong Long Islander, a rock/blues music enthusiast, and very much in tune with the local music scene.  In 2011, he was recognized as the Executive in Residence at the Crane Institute for Music Business at SUNY Potsdam.  Rob is honored and excited to have the opportunity to contribute his efforts at the Board level for a not for profit organization such as the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.

Barry Fisch has been involved in the music industry on Long Island for over thirty years. His first taste was as music director of his college radio station, WNYT, on the campus of the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. After numerous positions at a variety of Long Island based music stores and distributors, he settled in at one of the major label distribution companies, Polygram Records. During his nine year stint there, he worked in a sales and marketing capacity with all major record store accounts in the New York and Long Island areas under the positions of Singles Sales Specialist, Account Service Rep, and Artist Development Rep. The relationship with music store retailers Barry developed during his Polygram years still stands today, as he works within the New York and Long Island areas as an independent sales and marketing representative for various indy music distributors based in other parts of the U.S. Barry is also a music video archivist. He has received numerous credits supplying archival footage for television networks and independent film companies from his own personal archive, which he began collecting in 1978. Barry now resides in Hicksville.

Susan Herbst has been lurking about the Long Island music scene for - well - a really long time. While studying at School of Visual Arts (BFA) for children's illustration, she was recruited for graphic design and photography duty by her brother's [new] band, The Touch. This eventually led to a long stint as a graphic artist for a printing company that specialized in local and national, bar and nightclub promotional pieces. Though a series of "degrees of separation" she met the band Reckless Abandon (aka Captain Vic). Eventually pressed into "social directing" duties for the band, she also designed their cd Musical Train Wreck (and later Captain Vic's Good Night Ladies). It was at the 1996 Good Times Music Festival that she met Rich Hughes of the Long Island Music Coalition (and former Board member of LIMHoF) and by 1999 was a Board member of the LIMC. In 2001 she was recruited by John Blenn (formerly of Good Times) to assist with his monthly entertainment magazine the Long Island Entertainment News. When he sold it in 2002 to Rich L'Hommedieu, Sue became the Art Director and (sole) Graphic Designer (which essentially means that she got to boss herself around), upgrading and redesigning the look of the magazine (as well as a host of other DIY duties). When the magazine ceased publication in 2004, Sue thought that things would quiet down and she could have a "normal" life. But, as fate would have it, only for a short time. In 2006, Rich L'Hommedieu again recruited her for a new project, to produce the promotional and printed program material for the Long Island Music Hall of Fame's First Induction Gala

So, here we are today. Sue has designed cds, promotional material and logos for local artists and companies including Dave Isaacs, JP Blues, LIMC, Omnipop, and Once Upon A Dish. She is also involved with Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, and has done work for Rhett Syndrome Research Foundation. In addition to her graphic design experience, she has had her illustration work shown at the Society of Illustrators, designs and sells her own line of Christmas cards, and does custom painting on ceramics and furniture. Most recently, she illustrated the posters and promotional material for Great South Bay Music Festival.

Denis McNamara began his career as an on-air personality in the early days of FM radio at New York's WNEW-FM. In the late '70s, Denis became Program Director at WLIR, and steered the station from its freeform progressive rock roots in the late 70's to the premiere Modern Rock station of the 1980's. Denis is unanimously credited with almost single-handedly creating the New Wave and alternative radio formats that defined a generation and swept the nation. When most rock stations drifted to the more commercial AOR format, Denis bucked this trend by seeking new and innovative music. He was also known for his now-famous concert series and his support of local bands. Because of his prodigious knowledge and intelligent style as a radio host, Denis became a much sought-after interviewer, and was a favorite of many of the bands who changed the direction of music during that era. As punk and New Wave started to become popular at the end of the 1970s most rock stations ignored these genres, but he once again bucked the trend by playing artists that were breaking new ground. You can find information about the format of WLIR at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLIR and a great interview Denis conducted with the Cure at Interview: It's Piracy I Tell You

Paule T. Pachter, ACSW, LMSW is Executive Director of Long Island Cares,Inc., The Harry Chapin Food Bank in Hauppauge, a leading anti-hunger organization. Mr. Pachter is a graduate of the Adelphi University School of Social Work and has held several positions within Nassau County’s human services community most recently as Deputy Executive Director of Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services. Prior to that he served as Deputy Commissioner of the Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and Director of Program Services for the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County.

He is currently the Chairperson of the Long Island Association’s Not-for-Profit Committee, and a member of the LIA’s Innovate Long Island Team. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Long Island, serving on the Government Relations Committee, and a member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Mr. Pachter is also a 2006 recipient of the New York State Liberty Medal, the state’s highest honor for his work in the relief efforts associated with Hurricane Katrina.

Tony Traguardo, MLS, who resides in Westbury, is an archivist who has been collecting rare music and video footage for nearly thirty years. By day, he is a Media Librarian and Multimedia Technician for the Port Washington Public Library; this allows him to make use of both his undergraduate degree in Broadcasting, and his Master of Library and Information Science. During his 'off hours' he can be found lecturing at various Long Island libraries, producing his show '4F' for Podarama.com, teaching at Stony Brook University, working to build up his voiceover business (Word of Mouth Studios), or taking the stage with his 60s/70s cover band 'Shindig!'. Tony served as the main scriptwriter for LIMHoF's 2006 Gala program and assembled the video presentations accompanying each induction with the help of the Board's other archivist, Barry Fisch.

Amy Tuttle is well-known as a presenter and host of many acoustic music and independent band performances throughout Suffolk County. Amy got her start in the music world as a visual artist, becoming known for her pencil portraits of musicians - including sketches from life of Harry Chapin, Buzzy Linhardt, Jim Dawson and more - and as a graphic artist for Churchmouse Graphics. She created record album covers for a number of groups, including Renaissance, Varela, and various artists on the New York-based Makossa record label, as well as posters for the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, and the SAB concert series at SUNY Stony Brook. Amy is the Program Director of the Greater Port Jefferson - Northern Brookhaven Arts Council, and was very active in the Northport Arts Council's Sundays @ 7 series. She has recorded with Bill Ayres, Angels in Overdrive, the Gone Tribe and Varela. She has also worked extensively with special-needs individuals, and in historic restoration, and values these experiences in helping to develop and fulfill LIMHoF's mission.

A tireless champion of independent musicians, she has recently connected singer-songwriters to pediatric patients and their families at Stony Brook University Hospital in conjunction with their Child Life program, and has served on a New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Grants panel. After having served for 15 years on the Board of the Folk Music Society of Huntington, and for over a decade as their Vice-President, Amy was voted on to the Honorary Board of FMSH in 2010, where she is focusing on the organization's outreach. She lives with guitarist Bob Westcott, her husband of many years, in Mount Sinai.

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Past Directors

Richard G. L'Hommedieu, Founding Chair 2004-2008
Richard Hughes, Founding Director - 2004-2008
Charles McKenna, Founding Director - 2009
Allan Varela - Chairman Emeritus - 2007-2010