About Us

Debra Giusti

Founder

DEBRA GIUSTI has had a successful 30 year career as an entrepreneur, event/festival producer, dancer/dance teacher and spiritual adventurer. After getting a BA in Dance and Massage Therapy, in 1977-78 she founded Health & Harmony Festival, Spirit of Christmas Crafts Faire, The Well Being Community Center and the Well Being Community Newspaper. In 1978 she also founded and grew for 15 years Wishing Well Distributing Co., distributing over 3000 health and new age products and videos nationally, and sold it in 1979. She successfully produced the Harmony Festival, Spirit of Christmas Crafts Faire for 25 years until 2004, then she established a dynamic production team to continue to produce both events. Since 1978, she has also produced many other community events such as Community Networking Exchange, Sonoma Single Soiree, and hosted prominent nationally known speakers through Harmony Events. She is now publishing a TRANSFORMING THROUGH 2012 online Multi-media eBook, www.TransformingThrough2012.com, featuring 35 prominent and emerging 2012 authors with online text, audio and video! Debra's personal passion for spiritual evolvement keeps her on the cutting edge of the human potential/spirituality movement and allows her to continue to provide information, resources and transformational events around personal and planetary evolvement.

Howard “Bo” Sapper

Chief Executive Officer

Howard Sapper is a 30-year veteran of the music industry. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the entertainment business including A & R, financial forecasting, marketing, promotion, as well as negotiating domestic and international recording licensing and distribution agreements.

He is also the Executive Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs and New Business Development for Domo Music Group, Motema Music and Megawave records, and is the President of Extrordinaire Media.

In the late 1990's he founded Extrordinaire Media, a company whose vision was to create music that transports listeners to sacred regions around the world. In 1998, Extrordinaire media expanded to a full service entertainment company with clients including Domo Records, Rhino Records, Tarpan Studios/Perfection Light Productions, Quango Records, Motema Music, Megawave Records, Disney, Kitaro, Yoshida Brothers, Sonic Images Records, and Swee'Pea Production.

During his career he has worked with such distinguished artists as Paul Horn, Jaco Pastorius, Kitaro, Bob Weir, Steven Kindler, and such producers as legendary producer Narada Michael Walden and Peter McEvilley. Howard is currently on the Board of Advisors of the Association for Creative Endeavor (ACE), which had produced the Harmony Festival for six years.

Sean Ahearn

Program Director

Sean currently serves as Program Director for the Harmony Festival in Sonoma County California and is the Development Director for The World Council Of Elders. He has been an independent consultant for a variety of distinguished bay area organizations such as Bread & Roses, Lonely Planet Books, Earthdance, Solfest, and The Green Festival. He has produced a variety of albums, international concert tours festivals and fundraising events with members of The Rolling Stones, The Police, Cream, Black Sabbath, Supertramp. He has traveled to over 50 countries playing basketball, writing traveler's tales and meditating on the meaning of life.

Zack Darling

Night Time Production Manager, Techno-Tribal Lead Producer

Zack Darling began his career as an independent event producer in the North Bay and San Francisco, where he cut his teeth in the dynamic underground and later professional rave scenes. In 1999, Zack co-founded the Mystic Beat Lounge a new kind of production company that merged live concerts, DJ sets and performance theater (a lá Cirque du Soleil), with 21^st century visual effects, to create large-scale maximum multi sensory concert experiences.

The Techno-Tribal Dance, is a cutting edge production that peaks the Harmony Festival on Saturday Night. Over ten years, Techno-Tribal has developed into an annual over-the-top production characterized by cutting edge sound and visual technology with live DJs, electronic music producers, bands, fire theater, acrobatic and aerial performances, inflatable art, and an interactive live-art zones.

Zack is also the night time production manager of the Harmony Festival, and oversees all of the festival's after dark productions. Zack works with other producers as an event designer and consultant such as Earthdance Festival, Sea of Dreams, Burning Man, Reggae on the River, and many others. He has worked for Burning Man festival for 9 years and for the past 5 years, he has served as the North Bay Burning Man Regional Contact.

As a graphic designer and creative director for Harmony, his highly imaginative, custom creative art for posters, fliers, programs, websites, iPhone apps, and branding has built Zack a reputation as one of the most dynamic visual artists in the music and event industry today.

Bonnie Zimmermann

Director of Marketing & Communications

Bonnie Zimmerman, Director of Marketing and Communications

Bonnie has been working in the entertainment industry as a producer, marketer and media specialist for 25 years. Most recently she worked as a senior producer on “Architects of a New Dawn”, a multi-platform media project based on Carlos Santana’s vision of creating a new global network featuring uplifting and positive media content. She has produced national and international philanthropic large scale live events for clients including World Cup, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Nobel Laureate, Betty Williams, among many others. She has produced over two usand television and radio commercials for clients including Chevrolet, May Company, Toys ‘R Us and Giorgio of Beverly Hills, among many others.

Adrienne Biggs

Publicist / Media / Speaker Team

Adrienne is a long-time publicist and events planner who has represented well-known authors, filmmakers, musicians and arts-related organizations on the local and national level since 1993. For the second year in a row, in 2009 Adrienne will help bring notable speakers to the Harmony Festival line-up as well as promote the Festival and key performers to local, regional, and national media outlets including print, radio, TV, web sites, bloggers and social networking groups.