Jazz Artist Interviews, Conversations, and Culture
The Open Gate Network™ is a jazz media platform promoting a diverse range of artists, stories, and sounds, where tradition and innovation coexist.
The Open Gate Network™ was created to challenge the idea that jazz belongs behind a gate.
For too long, access—on airwaves, in institutions, and across media—has been filtered through a narrow lens. This platform exists to widen that lens.
Through audio, video, and live experiences, The Open Gate Network™ creates space for artists across generations—those honoring the lineage and those pushing it forward in real time.
THE MISSION
🎧 Audio
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Artimacy
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Roots & Resonance
🎥 Video
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Artist interviews
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Behind-the-scenes conversations
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Performance content
🎤 Live Experiences
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Wax & Wine (vinyl listening sessions)
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Artimacy Unplugged
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Panels + curated conversations
What We Do
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Artimacy – Intimate artist conversations
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Roots & Resonance – Connecting jazz across generations
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Open Gate Conversations - A space for honest dialogue with artists that centers the stories, perspectives, and truths that don’t always feel welcome in traditional jazz spaces.
Content will be released across audio and video platforms, with select conversations presented as live, in-person experiences.
Original Series/programming
LINEAGE + EVOLUTION + EXPANSION
Keanna Faircloth is a media personality, writer, and artist advocate with over two decades in jazz radio and storytelling.
Through The Open Gate Network™, she is building a platform that reflects the full spectrum of the music—and the people shaping it.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
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