Kevin Lyman-Founder of VANS WARPED TOUR + ECHOSMITH

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Kevin Lyman, associate professor of practice in the Music Industry program, is best known as founder and producer of the Vans Warped Tour which made its 24th and final cross-country run in 2018. He has been an industry professional for 37 years, having worked his way up from throwing backyard concerts to producing festivals like Rockstar Mayhem, Country Throwdown, Sprite Liquid Mix, and It’s Not Dead, among numerous others. He is co-owner of SideOneDummy Records and has managed acts like Less Than Jake, H20, and The Ataris. Lyman’s philosophy has always been to include three things in all events he produces music, education, and philanthropy. His philanthropic work has included founding the Unite the United Foundation, a charitable organization that has raised over $1 million for various non-profits. In 2014, the Vans Warped Tour attempted to set a Guinness World Record for Largest Food Drive in a 24-Hour period at a single location. In 2018, Lyman is focusing on the opioid education initiative, FEND (Full, Energy, No, Drugs). For his philanthropic efforts, Lyman was recognized in 2009 as the Billboard Touring Awards Humanitarian of the Year. He was an honoree in 2011 at the Grammy/MusiCares MAP Fund gala and was inducted in 2012 into the Top Dog Touring Hall of Fame at the Tour Link Conference. In 2016, he was given the Humanitarian of the Year award by the T.J. Martell Foundation at their annual Family Day.

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A family comes of age together as does a band, weathering life’s trials and triumphs as a unit. Comprised of three siblings, multiplatinum Southern California trio Echosmith —Sydney Sierota [lead vocals], Noah Sierota [vocals, bass], and Graham Sierota [drums]—transpose their collective growth into vibrant, vulnerable, and vital alternative pop anthems upheld by lush guitars and analog synths. Their personal songcraft blossoms to its fullest potential on the group’s 2019 second full-length and first independent offering, Lonely Generation. “We are a band, but we’re family first, which is a special and rare gift,” says Noah. “We get to learn and evolve together. The album is about trying to care for each other, grow, and experience joy and heartache in the internet age. It’s like a diary. You’re meant to hear every instrument being played. We pushed ourselves to try new things and reflect our experiences in a fresh way. From the beginning, our music has been a discovery and continued coming-of-age story. The new record is a completion of that. We’re showing a piece of who we are that we’ve never shown before.”“We were just honest about happiness, love, and even being truly broken,” adds Sydney. “We’re growing up in our own ways. We’re siblings and close friends, but we have our own lives too. We bring all of those things into the record. There are a lot of different flavors to it. We got to be really vulnerable for the first time.”An unbelievable journey empowered them to do so. Within a few years, Echosmith cemented themselves as an inescapable presence throughout popular music and culture. Streamed over 1 billion times by 2019, they earned a triple-platinum single with “Cool Kids” and a double-platinum single with “Bright” as their 2016 full-length debut, Talking Dreams, went gold. They headlined countless shows, toured alongside twenty-one pilots and Pentatonix, performed on major TV shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, TODAY, and The Late Late Show with James Corden, and received praise from the likes of Billboard, Vulture, Variety, Elle, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, and Nylon. They have collaborated with Timbaland, for King & Country, and Audien and Sydney have even graced the stage for a viral duet with Taylor Swift.