Welcoming Our Newest Team Members

Originally from Louisiana, Shelby Sandlin has spent the last decade working across music, sound design, podcast production, and live events. She began her career in New York at Mexican Summer Records, overseeing artist campaigns and record releases from creative inception through launch. She went on to produce commercial and film sound design projects at One Thousand Birds in Los Angeles. She has since managed podcast production, talent booking, and creative operations at The Mash-Up Americans, including projects for HBO, Netflix, and others, and led brand development projects at Modern8 in Salt Lake City. Now based in Knoxville, she brings her love of live music and a career built on finding the thoughtful system inside the ambitious chaos, and is thrilled to bring both to the Big Ears team.

Sruly Lazaros is a producer and music programmer based in New York City. As a producer with the seminal composer collective Bang on a Can for over fifteen years, he has helped to present concerts in the hallowed halls of music worldwide and produces the annual Long Play festival held each spring in Brooklyn. Sruly has also programmed and produced shows for the World Music Institute, the Winter Jazz Festival, SXSW, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Verve Records, the Whitney, MoMA, the Noguchi Museum, Mass MoCA, the Jewish Museum, and many others. Since 2022, he has led music programming at the innovative Gowanus venue, Public Records, and acts as an A&R consultant for the iconic record label, Nonesuch.