Alexandria Leavenworth

People say California isn’t country, but Alexandria begs to differ. Alexandria – or Alex, as we call her – grew up on the music of Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina, and more. After attending her first Rascal Flatts concert in 2005, she was hooked. She has since spent every moment living, breathing and loving country music.

Alex graduated CSU East Bay in 2013 with her Bachelors & the University of Nebraska in 2017 with her Masters. Go big red! Today she’s sitting pretty in Monterey, California, where she is a rockstar Promotion Manager for Hearst television by day, and a concert goer by night. Alex travels all over the West Coast attending shows of the hottest up-and-comers in the industry, the funnest festivals you can find, and everything in between.

In addition to being a country music enthusiast, Alex is a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fanatic, ordained minister, loud Italian, diehard Giants baseball fan, and oh! – she sang on stage with Carrie Underwood back in May of 2019 (ask her about it sometime, she’d love to tell you).

Keep up with Alex via alex@starsandguitars.com or send her a tweet @AlexLeavenworth

Steven Schiraldi

New York, Arizona and Las Vegas aren’t the first places that come to mind when you think of country music. Steven Schiraldi thinks that it doesn’t matter where you live, it’s the stories and the heart that make a country fan. Only being exposed to country artists that hit the top 40 airwaves in the late 90s like Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Keith Urban, it was a little show called American Idol and Carrie Underwood that turned Steven into a full-fledged country fan. Steven has seen Lonestar 3 times, but he’s seen Carrie Underwood 5 times in 4 different states!

Steven graduated from The University of Arizona in 2013 with a Bachelor’s in Journalism and the University of Florida in 2015 with a Master’s in Digital Communication & Social Media. Today he’s living it up in Las Vegas, where there is no shortage of music and entertainment to be consumed.

Aside from his love of country music, Steven is a die-hard New York Mets fan, also a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fanatic, a published songwriter and lived the best moment of his life when he sang on stage with Carrie Underwood in May 2019 (he will never grow tired of telling that story, so ask away!).

Keep up with Steven via steven@starsandguitars.com or send him a tweet @StSchiraldi