Hunt Talent LLC

12/06/2024

It's been an exciting first week of the Christmas Season for Hunt Talent! We'd like to thank our wonderful acts who are out spreading Christmas Cheer!

Rich Wilson
Louie Fortunato
Leesah Stiles
Ho**ey Tonk Aubrey Pinion
George Moran
Jacob Hunt
Alex Markow
Glen Hayden
Valerie Dishong Herzfeld
Katherine Hines
DJ's Reese & Aquaman
Victoria Garcia
Ron Mitchell
Tony The Balloon Guy

Thank you everyone!!

11/06/2024

Always a good time when Nate Johnson is on the job! Catch his band Draw 4 at Brooksville Main Street this Friday night!

11/06/2024

The Hernando Sun wrote a wonderful article about the Benefit show last month. Thank you Hernando Sun for the beautiful words.

Hernando Sun Newspaper covers Brooksville, Masaryktown, Spring Hill, Ridge Manor, Weeki Wachee News

11/03/2024

Thank you so much to Roslyn Franken for putting together this wonderful review of our Hurricane Relief Show!! We raised $4545.00 for those affected in our community with all proceeds going to the United Way of Hernando County!! This is by far the proudest work I've ever done.

Thank you to our host and sponsors; Stage West Playhouse, Tori Elizabeth, Charley's Cheesesteak on Mariner, Jam's Cafe, Codys Original Roadhouse, Spring Hill, Hernando Oaks, Brooksville Country Club, The Heather Golf Club, Addome Bella Spa, Cafe Connection, Greek City, Hernando Massage, Linda Avon Rep, Laffs 2 Go.

Thank you to our performers; Gid Pool, Jimmie Bush Jr, Mary Ellen DePetrillo, Fran Capo, Lou Angelwolf, Kristen Nelson, Jason and Sonali Duo, Bella Bermai Bonati, Bob Lawson, Nate Johnson, Johnny Petillo, Elliott Smith, Stan Prinston, Louie Fortunato, & Jacob Hunt.

10/27/2024

Had a great time hosting some events at the Halloween Howl put together by Brooksville Main Street! Dawn Triconi and her team do wonderful work for the community. Don’t miss the Veteran’s Festival coming up on November 9th in Downtown Brooksville!

10/18/2024

Saturday morning I’ll be helping to host and DJ the Founder’s Week kick off celebration in downtown Brooksville! Come on out for a fun time before our Hurricane Relief Concert at Stage West that night!

10/05/2024

WE ARE LIVE!!! I just want to say thank you so Pam Dugle, Michelle Anne Root, and so many of the other people at Stage West Playhouse who have moved RAPIDLY on putting this hurricane relief show together. We have 15 acts signed up so far, their names will be published in the next day or two.

Tickets are available at this link. EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR is going towards hurricane relief efforts. No performer, agent, theater, or volunteer is taking revenue. Every piece of this effort if tireless volunteerism and I am so delighted and proud to be a part of it.

Jake Hunt of HUNT TALENT has reached out to many of our area and beyond performers to come together and raise funds for people devastated by Hurricane Helene. Performers include Stan Prinston - Lead singer of The Flamingos Louie Fortunato is a Brooklyn-born singer and former member of TKO who has op...

09/23/2024

A little late, but Hunt Talent LLC would like to thank Elliott Smith for another successful and enjoyable booking with one of our high end active adult communities. We have it all! Including casino vendors, showgirls, classical trios, and Ice Sculpture vendors, all of which made this event special from start to finish! Thank you Elliott and we can't wait for the next one!

09/20/2024

Hunt Talent LLC Spotlight!!

Virtuoso Pianist Mia Vassilev started playing (or making noise) from the age of 3 and has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US.

Recordings include Several Times, the chamber music of Dennis Kam, released by Navona Records, the Naxos album Del Caribe, Soy!, Ecstatic Records’ MIAMI GRANDS, composed by Michael Torke.
Most recently Mia has released her solo albums, VELVET NIGHTNOTES and PIANO ON THE RUN! She has also released two singles – MOONLIGHT SERENADE and the proclaimed Classical genre and Electronic Dance Music genre mix TOCCATA.

Originally from a small town in Kansas and based in Miami Beach, she is a frequent soloist with the Hallendale Symphonic Pops Orchestra, the Alhambra Orchestra, the Sugar Pops Orchestra, and the Klezmer Company Orchestra in Boca Raton, and, when wearing her glasses, is an adjunct Professor of Piano at Barry University in Miami Shores.

She holds degrees, awards and assistantships to the doctoral level from Kansas State University, the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, and University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and was a New World Symphony piano fellow.

Mia has worked as a chamber musician and opera accompanist, working for tours and production rehearsals with the Metropolitan Opera (NY), Glimmerglass Opera (NY), Florida Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival in Graz, Austria. She has produced and directed epic 10-piano original shows locally. She currently performs her solo show, MIA, nationally.

Mia’s hobbies include falling down in skis at high speeds and reading Ayn Rand.

09/14/2024

Hunt Talent is very proud to have the hilarious comedian John Rathbone (30+ veteran comic who’s opened for some of America’s great comics and successfully entertained on cruise ships all over the world) and Mentalist Bob Lawson (Former Technical Advisor for the Hit TV show “The Mentalist”) entertaining in Davenport tonight! Break a leg guys!

09/14/2024

Hunt Talent LLC would like to thank Florida’s premier Bee Gees Tribute Jive Talkin’ USA for a job done beautifully last night at Timber Pines. Working with Willie, Carlos, and the guys is always a pleasure for us and our clients.

08/30/2024

Kitei as Tina Turner!

Kitei has been singing professionally for over 25 years and entertaining audiences as far away as Las Vegas. She has been performing as "The Queen of Rock" for over 10 years. While captivating fans with her comparable rendition of the legendary Tina Turner, Kitei's tribute is her passion and "The Ultimate Experience". Love HAS got a lot to do with her passion for paying tribute to the fabulous Tina. Kitei's sultry voice and incredibly high energy show, keep audiences out of breath, making Kitei, -

"Simply…The Best"!

Tina Turner inspired Kitei with her high energy performances, strong courageous voice, beautiful spirit, and impressively long-lasting career. Kitei knew that if she were to pay tribute to Tina, then she'd have to be good...real good!​

"When I perform as Tina Turner, there is no greater feeling for me as an entertainer. I enjoy every moment of the transformation from flipping on her wig to slipping into a pair of black fishnets. I cannot believe I have the honor of sharing her legacy with so many people. Thank you for the opportunity." Kitei

08/27/2024

Bob Lawson is one of America's leading mentalists. His show The Mental Mystery Tour has been presented from Italy to Las Vegas and everywhere in between. Bob often performs his award winning shows aboard Princess, Royal Caribbean , Celebrity and Norwegian Cruise ships.

For six seasons Bob acted as a Technical Adviser to the CBS TV Show The Mentalist. Bob assisted by providing his ideas and thoughts to Bruno Heller, the creator to help Simon Baker look more like a real mentalist.

Bob is proud to bring his show to military bases and ships around the world entertaining our troops. Bob has performed on the stage at the Golden Nugget Casino, as well as in hundreds of theaters and events across the country.

Bob and his staff are also very proud to be Official Team Members of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Bob donates 10% of all his performance fees to St. Jude. If after show sales are permitted 100% of those sales go directly to St. Jude to help continue their amazing work.

08/24/2024

What an incredible night!! Thank you very much to Louie Fortunato for joining me tonight at Richey Suncoast Theatre. It was a full circle, dream come true to be able to perform on the same stage Louie brought me up on over 20 years ago. Thank you to Tori Elizabeth for being such a wonderful partner and sound tech tonight. Thank you to Elliott Smith for booking this program. Karina Hernandez & Leesah Stiles for coming out to see the show. Patricia Powell Becker for helping promote the show. Beatrice Hall and Shirley and Rayna Reis and every single person who helped pump this big public debut up. I am overwhelmed sitting here thinking about all the people who make this super weird life I have possible. Love you guys and can’t wait to do it again!

08/22/2024

Tomorrow is the big night! Join Hunt Talent's very own Jacob Hunt and Louie Fortunato at Richey Suncoast Theater for a night of FUN!

08/22/2024

It was so much fun hosting the HAMIs again this year!! The team at Stage West Playhouse really does so much for the arts in our community and I am so grateful to get to call them my friends.

Hernando Sun Newspaper covers Brooksville, Masaryktown, Spring Hill, Ridge Manor, Weeki Wachee News

08/20/2024

You’ll come for the Rock Impressions and leave laughing your head off. Great standup and spot-on musical impressions make this show rock.

Over thirty years Kier has done it all, and done it all over the world, including entertaining the troops in Europe, Asia, and the Persian Gulf. He has worked with such greats as Reba McEntire, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Daniel Tosh, Darius Rucker, Ronnie Milsap, and many others, including appearances on the Bob & Tom Show.

Kier’s spot on impressions include Sting, Springsteen, Dave Matthews, U2, Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Waylon & Willie, Tom Petty, Prince, Barry White, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Macklemore, and many others. Plus! - his World-Famous History of Rock Guitar Riffs.

4,237 Headlining Nights at Comedy Clubs

2,488 Nights at Music Clubs

931 Cruise Ship Shows

626 Corporate Events

522 College Shows

71 Major Concert Openers

68 Shows on US Military Bases (Worldwide)

56 Festivals

33 Nights in Las Vegas

1 Rodeo (seriously)