Over his career, Chacona’s event previews, feature writing and criticism have been seen in the Erie Times-News and other regional Gannett newspapers and in the Chautauquan Daily, in Lake Erie LifeStyle, CODA, Signal to Noise and Erie & Chautauqua magazines and in online music journals AllAboutJazz.com and PostGenre. He was a host on WQLN-FM’s long-running All That Jazz program and was producer and host of After Hours. For several magical years, Chacona was onstage host at Erie’s Blues & Jazz Festival, the best gig imaginable.
He can be reached at john@johnchacona.com.
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