Mary Spender's 'Tuesday Talks' Creators & Guests

Jennifer Majura Indrasen is a German musician. She was the rhythm guitarist for American rock band Evanescence from 2015 to 2022.

Nita Strauss is an American rock musician. She is currently Demi Lovato's touring guitarist and was a former touring guitarist for Alice Cooper from 2014 to 2022 and has a successful career as a solo artist. Strauss was the first female signature artist with Ibanez guitars and is regularly featured on the covers of worldwide print magazines including Guitar World and Guitar Player. She was ranked No. 1 on Guitar World's list of "10 Female Guitar Players You Should Know".

Since 2003, Jayme has acquired more professional titles than his business card will allow, including studio and touring bassist, music director, tour manager, composer, producer, educator, podcaster, YouTuber and even Twitch streamer. In addition to releasing his own music, Jayme has done it all; as a sideman he has toured with Shim Moore, Mitch Ryder, Megan Nicole, Stalgia and Karen Hester; his compositions have been played on major TV shows and movies from Disney, Nickelodeon, NBC and HBO; he’s worked with A-list music producers like Warren Huart, Peter Amato, Matthew Gerard and Mauricio Guerrero; and Jayme has performed on such iconic stages as Rock On The Range and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (source: jaymelewis.com)

Tora Dahle Aagård is a Norwegian singer and guitarist, and leader of the band TORA.

Jamie Dickson is Editor-in-Chief of Guitarist magazine, Britain's best-selling and longest-running monthly for guitar players.

Nahre Sol is a Korean-American composer, pianist, and YouTuber.

Robert Sutherland Chapman is an English musician, YouTuber, and the founder and co-owner of Chapman Guitars. Chapman is known for his popular instructional YouTube channel and as demonstrator of guitar equipment for Andertons Music Co.

Rachelle Cordova, better known by the stage name Reina del Cid, is an American singer-songwriter and lead of the eponymous folk/rock band formerly based in Minneapolis, and now based in Los Angeles.

Lee "The Captain" Anderton is the owner of a popular music store in Guildford, England called Andertons Music Co.

Adam Neely is a New York City-based jazz bassist, composer, and YouTuber. His channel is a mix of musical history, theory, and popular culture videos in a format that has been described by several commentators as the "musical Vsauce."

Helen Ibe is a Nigerian guitarist, performer, songwriter, guitar teacher, and humanitarian. She has established herself as one of Nigeria's top classical guitarists and regularly performs at Lagos venues. She writes original songs, sits in with other performers, and has her own online guitar teaching platform.

Rhett Shull is an American guitarist & YouTube creator.

Rachel K. Collier is a Welsh electronic music producer and performer from Swansea, Wales. She studied Creative Music Technology (BMus) for four years at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama before moving to London to further pursue her music career.

Joanne Shaw Taylor is an English singer and guitarist. She was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. Taylor's albums via Ruf Records, White Sugar (2009) and Diamonds in the Dirt (2010), peaked at No. 8 in the US on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. Her No. 1 album, The Blues Album (2021), was released via Joe Bonamassa's Keeping the Blues Alive Records.In 2010, Taylor won Best Female Vocalist at the British Blues Awards. She won the same award at the 2011 British Blues Awards, and the Songwriter of the Year award for "Same as It Never Was", from Diamonds in the Dirt.

Winnipeg musician, guitar instructor and engaging personality Steve Onotera is an online phenomenon whose YouTube channel has nearly one million subscribers

Marty Schwartz is the host of the famous guitar tuition YouTube channel, Marty Music.

A former elite cyclist, Francis left the racing scene in his early 20s and focused his energy into making videos instead.

Tim Pierce is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and the Cheetah Girls.Pierce's parents were not musicians, although, unbeknownst to Pierce, his father used to play the trumpet in his youth. He first tasted mainstream success in the early 1980s, when he began recording with Rick Springfield, who was emerging as one of rock's biggest stars with his hit "Jessie's Girl". In addition to playing on the studio recordings that followed, he also joined Springfield's touring band throughout the 1980s and appears in several of Springfield's music videos from the era.He has played on many hit songs including contributing second-guitar parts on Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over", mandolins and slide guitar on Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris", a rhythm guitar part during the bridge of Michael Jackson's "Black or White", which was inspired by the work of Mötley Crüe, and almost all guitar parts on the original recording of "Runaway" by Bon Jovi.In 1995, Pierce released a solo album, Guitarland, on PRA Records.In the 2010s, Pierce started a YouTube channel, on which he offers guitar tips from his years in the music industry.

Theofilos Xenidis, better known as Phil X, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Since 2013, he has played lead guitar with Bon Jovi and officially replaced former lead guitarist Richie Sambora in 2016.