Darryl T. Bey

As the founder, co-founder and leader of several musical societies, as an active participant in numerous nonprofit civic organizations, as a professional impresario and as an independent businessman, I have acquired decades of successful experience in management, marketing and development. These skills and experience include:

• Development and execution of numerous marketing, advertising and public relations campaigns in
support of performing arts programs and events.

• Representative and negotiator with artists’ agents, publicists, managers and organizations to book and
promote live performances.

• Identifying primary and secondary audiences for events and programs and developing cost-effective
targeted marketing campaigns to reach them using the appropriate tools and methods, such as direct
mail, email blasts, telemarketing, news releases and media advertising.

• Making presentations to municipal government bodies, civic organizations, clubs, news conferences and
other public forums.

• Print interviews and appearances on broadcast media to discuss and promote programs and events.

• Strategic creative direction, production coordination and distribution supervision of print and electronic
collateral design.

• Development, scheduling and distribution of news releases, public service announcements and
performance interviews.

• Evaluation and reporting of results of promotional activities to directors and members of performing
arts societies.

• Recruitment and leadership of volunteer assistance in promoting programs and staging events.

• Building cooperation and coordination among various performing arts and educational organizations.

• Developing policies, responding to inquiries regarding performances, promotions and related issues.

• Annual planning of performing arts societies’ programs, promotions and activities.

• Database building and management of membership, media, email, telephone and facsimile lists.

• Soliciting and negotiating corporate sponsorships for programs and events.

• Planning, direction and reporting of surveys and studies on public perceptions and issues regarding
performing arts organizations and programming.

ORGANIZATIONAL, MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CREDENTIALS

• Co-founder of the Northeast Ohio Jazz Society, 1978.

• Founder and president of the Birmingham Metro Jazz Institute, 1988.

• Co-founder of the Fort Pierce Jazz Society, 1996; served as president until 2006 and Executive Director until
2007. Under Darryl Bey’s leadership, the Jazz Society has contributed to the rebirth of downtown Fort Pierce
by promoting and staging musical entertainment that has attracted area residents to visit downtown and
patronize local businesses. Jazz Society events, performances and sponsorships created by Darryl Bey
include:

• Weekly Jazz Jams.

• Fort Pierce Jazz Ensemble (which took second place in a national competition in Washington, D.C. that was
televised by the BET channel’s “Jazz Discovery” program in 1998).

• Members Night Out, held at various downtown establishments to highlight and increase patronage of
their businesses.

• Annual Jazz Cruise (aboard the Spirit of St. Joseph).

• IRSC Student Music Workshops with nationally known artists.

• Annual trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

• Brown Bag Lunch Concerts at the downtown branch of the St. Lucie County Library.

• Jazz Art Exhibition series at Backus Art Gallery, the Lafrandre Gallery and other Treasure Coast galleries
and studios.

• Presenting Jazz concert series, which has included the American Wind Symphony.

• Music Scholarship Program, which raises and awards college scholarship funds for deserving area
music students.

• Annual Jazz Week & Tribute to Jazz Masters, which includes concerts, musical education and workshops
with internationally known artists such as The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Freddy Cole, T.S. Monk, Ramsey
Lewis, Ira Sullivan, Little Ed and The Blues Imperials, The Bill Porter Orchestra, David (Fathead) Newman,
David Sanborn, Guitar Shorty, Donald Harrison, Christian Scott, Joey DeFrancesco, Melton Mustafa, Zac
Harmon, Ana Popovic and Wynton Marsalis.

ADDITIONAL ART, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT CREDENTIALS

• Contributed to the success of the Fort Pierce Main Street by working with Main Street Manager Doris Tillman
to provide entertainment at Friday Fest.

• Established the annual Highwaymen Art Festival.

• Participated in and provided entertainment for the annual Fort Pierce Celebrity Rib & Roast fundraiser for
scholarships for deserving music students.

• Worked with Jon Ward on the Zora Neal Hurston Project as entertainment chairperson.

• Conducted research of the Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution of American History for
the proposed “Beyond Category” exhibit in Fort Pierce.

• Host Committee entertainment chairman for Project Amistad.

• Worked with St. Lucie County Parks and Recreation department to produce the Waterside Jazz & Blues
Festival (formerly BBQ Jazz & Blues Fest).