March 2025 Dante’s Old South
Desmund Dangerfield is an entrepreneur, educator, and PhD candidate in Educational Leadership, dedicated to student success and community development.
With experience in academic recruitment, leadership development, and entrepreneurship training, he has worked with institutions like Prairie View, A&M University and San Jacinto College to equip students with the tools for academic and professional growth. As a business owner, Desmun specializes in photography, brand strategy, and digital marketing.
Additionally, he is a social media influencer with 200,000 followers on Instagram, using his platform to engage and inspire diverse audiences. Passionate about innovation and community impact, Desmun blends research, real-world experience, and engaging storytelling to educate and empower others.
Brian & Amanda Trent are best known on social media as “The Trent Tribe”, where they offer biblical content that they hope will be relatable, understandable and encouraging. They reside in South Carolina with the rest of their Tribe, which is their six kids, two sons-in-law and four grandchildren. Brian & Amanda relocated from southwestern Virginia to Hampton, SC fifteen years ago to pastor Lighthouse Church.
They are passionate about family, church, entrepreneurship, community, and recovery.
Sarah Darling is an American singer-songwriter drawing inspiration from the allure of freedom and beauty. She channels the spirit of 70's California, with echoes from Laurel Canyon, narrating an American road trip story wrapped in nostalgia and sunshine. Infused with a modern aura, her lyrics transport us to a golden era, sung with the warmth of honey vocals and unfiltered honesty.
Her credits include five full-length albums, multiple singles, including a #1 on the UK Country charts, and many duets. She has over 20 million streams, 11 million video views, and over 90 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry stage.
Ally Venable is a singer/songwriter/ musician who believes rules are there to be broken. Expectations are there to be defied. Glass ceilings are there to be shattered.
Having spent the past decade carving out her own unique space in the male dominated world of blues-rock, Ally Venable’s combative sixth album, Money & Power, demands more of both – for herself, for women around the world, and for anyone else who thought they weren’t worthy of a seat at the table.
Money and power make the world go round. But in the right hands, music can be every bit as potent. Right now, on the heels of 2023’s acclaimed Real Gone – an album that hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and was still in contention a year later – Ally is rated amongst the best young singer-songwriters in American roots, saluted by Total Guitar Magazine in its poll of Top 100 Blues Guitarists.
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Dante's Old South is produced by Michael Amidei
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