Gig Online Magazine’s mission is to provide information about the bands that enrich our lives through their music. It also provides a comprehensive listing of live entertainment and venues on Oregon’s South Coast.
Bylines
Jo Rafferty
Jo Rafferty has been in the newspaper business since the early 1980s. Starting her career at a small-town newspaper in the California central valley doing paste-up, she worked her way up to graphic artist, then reporter, and was an editor for several years before moving to Coos Bay two years ago, where she was a journalist-business editor for a local newspaper. She created a monthly publication, Tahoe Family, while working at the Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., which is still being published in the same format today. As the community editor at The Record Courier in Gardnerville, Nev., she saw a need for promotion of local musical entertainment and started a column, Valley Vibrations, which featured a story on a local band or artist, plus a weekly listing of what musical entertainment was available in that area. That listing is still being published today, as well.
Jack Carrerow
Jack Carrerow is a former television sitcom writer, standup comedian and one-time horse wrangler, who has spent the past 10 years as a journalist in California, Nevada and, as many of you are aware, Oregon.
As a television writer, he worked on shows like Bosom Buddies (starring Tom Hanks), Night Court and Mr. Belvedere.
As a journalist, he has interviewed Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Woodstock legend Country Joe MacDonald, former NFL quarterbacks Trent Dilfer and Eddie LeBarron and golf superstar Annika Sorenstam, among others.
According to Carrerow, he is honest, witty, loves to tell stories, writes his mother regularly, is kind to small dogs and children and is current on all his shots.
About Gig
Jo Rafferty and Jack Carrerow
Gig Online Magazine’s mission is to provide information about the bands that enrich our lives through their music. It also provides a comprehensive listing of live entertainment and venues on Oregon’s South Coast.
Bylines
Jo Rafferty
Jo Rafferty has been in the newspaper business since the early 1980s. Starting her career at a small-town newspaper in the California central valley doing paste-up, she worked her way up to graphic artist, then reporter, and was an editor for several years before moving to Coos Bay two years ago, where she was a journalist-business editor for a local newspaper. She created a monthly publication, Tahoe Family, while working at the Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., which is still being published in the same format today. As the community editor at The Record Courier in Gardnerville, Nev., she saw a need for promotion of local musical entertainment and started a column, Valley Vibrations, which featured a story on a local band or artist, plus a weekly listing of what musical entertainment was available in that area. That listing is still being published today, as well.
Jack Carrerow
Jack Carrerow is a former television sitcom writer, standup comedian and one-time horse wrangler, who has spent the past 10 years as a journalist in California, Nevada and, as many of you are aware, Oregon.
As a television writer, he worked on shows like Bosom Buddies (starring Tom Hanks), Night Court and Mr. Belvedere.
As a journalist, he has interviewed Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Woodstock legend Country Joe MacDonald, former NFL quarterbacks Trent Dilfer and Eddie LeBarron and golf superstar Annika Sorenstam, among others.
According to Carrerow, he is honest, witty, loves to tell stories, writes his mother regularly, is kind to small dogs and children and is current on all his shots.