Gary Carra - Publisher / Editor
Gary Carra is Editor & Publisher for the North Central News regional newspaper and its 100,000+ monthly readers. In addition, Gary is a veritable scene stalwart for all things entertainment in the area.
For more than two decades, he served as both food columnist "Scoop Du Jour" and music columnist "The Nightcrawler" for the area's premier alt-weekly, the New Haven, Hartford, Springfield and Valley Advocate publications. This afforded Gary the opportunity to interview everyone from Dan Akryod to Kevin Bacon, members of Led Zeppelin and Kiss, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Guns N' Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Dave Matthews Band and "Weird" Al Yankovic, just to name a choice few. The "Nightcrawler" column also landed him a weekly radio spot on Lazer 99.3 FM for several years. The morning radio jocks would have him call in and preview his latest interview, concert review, and hip their audiences to the to some of the best entertainment options for the upcoming weekend.
In 2009, Gary was featured on the cover of the Hartford Business Journal as one of "40 under 40" movers and shakers to watch in the state.
It was also around this time that he entered the local theater circuit, securing several lead roles in numerous Murder Mystery Dinner productions and the like.
Through it all, he has always had a passion for writing and performing music. Three of his songs, "Set Yourself," "Smiling @ Spotlights" and "Felix Culpa (The Fortunate Fall)" garnered regional radio play and him and his band Bravo Sierra to land support gigs opening for national recording artists ranging from Blue Oyster Cult and Ratt to Corey Glover of Living Colour fame, Saving Abel and Physical Graffiti.
Listen to Gary's songs now!
Most recently, Gary has been a quite a "commercial" success, frequenting social media and television commercial ads for area businesses.
The North Central News
P.O. Box 427
Somers, CT 06071
EMAIL: info@thenorthcentralnews.com
PHONE: 860-698-0020
FAX: 860-394-4262