Personalities
Scott Faris is an award-winning visual artist and musician, the proprietor of FarisWheel Productions (a music and art production company) and the owner of the Amusement Park Recording Studio in Lubbock, TX. A 20-year veteran of the independent music and art scene, Scott has toured as the guitarist for 100 Love Sonnets, Meltdown Morning and The Reagan Administration. He has played on, produced or created album covers for over 30 CDs. Intensely creative, Scott spends his time producing albums for independent artists, building high-end multimedia and database-heavy websites, crafting unique album art and recording memorable guitar tracks for CDs and video games. Scott lives in Lubbock with his wife Amy and daughter Rachel.
Scott’s clients include:
Compadre Records, Insight Records, Charity Records, Mel Bay Publications, Hal Leonard Publications, Johnny Lee, Cary Banks (The Maines Brothers), classical guitarist David Brandon, Bobby Bookout, The Archers, No Fences, Fillee Music, Big Idea, Inc., Jana Stanfield, Grammy-nominated songwriter Karen Taylor-Good, Dustin Garrett and the Texas Cruisers, Les Eason and the Steen Régime, This Soul Divided, Megan Laurie, The Charlie Shafter Band, The Prairie Winds Chorus, Jay Lemon, Andy Eppler, amazingvocals.com, SouthWest Vocal Associates, Seth Rigg’s Speech Level Singing, Tanya Crump, vanillapacifier.com, Penguin Promo, Forensictees.com, Juanita, South Plains College, Texas Tech University, Cheyenne Ward, WestMark Realtors, Pat Ham Realtors, McDougal Realtors, Linda’s Cup of Tea, Ballet Lubbock, Scribbles Design, The Thomas Agency, Digital Base Productions, Region 16 UIL, The Beer Garden, XIT Wireless, A Noble Fence Company, Southwest Honda, Smith South Plains, Gone Virtual Studios, City Bank, and TG Trees.Check out Scott's blog for info on his latest creations!
Amy Goode Faris is the creative force behind FarisWheel’s jingles. She is a pianist, composer, arranger and songwriter with a degree in Music Composition. Besides touring with rock bands such as Rapunzel, 100 Love Sonnets, and The Reagan Administration, Amy has arranged solo and duet piano pieces, choral music, chamber music, and even a gospel piece for three pianos! She recently played keyboard for Mac Davis at the Lubbock, Texas Centennial Concert. Her playing can be heard on numerous CDs, including her own Christmas release Hot Chocolate Songs.
Shane Shepherd is a web application and design authority, composer and bass player. A long-term web developer with almost a decade of experience, Shane has built hundreds of websites. He is an expert in web design, development, security, and search optimization. In addition to the many company websites Shane has built, he has also developed enterprise level web applications for a large software development company and other web-based applications used internally by a regional financial institution. Shane enjoys spending time with his wife Summer, daughter Mai and soon-to-be-born son. When he’s not building world-class websites, he enjoys playing tennis and bass guitar. He blogs about web development and his musical interests at ShepherdWeb.com.
Summer Shepherd: voice-over and graphic design specialist at FarisWheel Productions. Summer loves designing logos, business cards, promotional materials and websites for Fariswheel Productions and her freelance design company Chocolate Box Designs. Summer is also one of the most popular voice talents for FarisWheel radio and TV spots. Summer is married to Shane and has one daughter and a son on the way. Another FarisWheel designer is born!
Ben Mercado is an audio genius. He is the chief engineer at Scott's Amusement Park Studio and spends his days (and nights!) crafting amazing audio tracks for everything from jingles and sound tracks to full albums. From rock to hip hop, jazz to country, Ben knows how to capture it on tape. And not only that, but he's an amazing graphic designer and photographer, too!
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