''The Acoustic Storm'' to Continue with Host Audrey Parets

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, January 3, 2019

Audrey Parets

United Stations Radio Networks (USRN) has announced that its weekend show, "The Acoustic Storm," will be continue to be produced and broadcast for its 21st year on the air despite the untimely death of its creator, Jeff Parets. Parets' wife, Audrey, will be taking over the hosting and producing duties that Jeff had carried on for 20 years since introducing the show locally in the Phoenix market in 1998.

Audrey Parets will take over beginning with the first broadcast week of February which includes the weekend of February 2 and 3. The announcement comes jointly from Audrey Parets and USRN's EVP/Programming Andy Denemark. The continuation of the program not only fulfills one of Paret's final wishes, but this launch date closely follows an event at which industry colleagues, friends and family are welcome to celebrate the life of Jeff Parets. Details for that celebration can be found here.

As its title implies, each week "The Acoustic Storm" delivers acoustic and unplugged versions of well-known songs to Classic Rock and Classic Hits radio stations. The music is often planned around a specific theme, and the concept was created and hosted by Parets and first signed onto the airwaves on Sunday morning, October 25, 1998, as a local show on KSLX-FM in Phoenix.

Audrey Parets is an experienced on air host and voice-over artist who has been working closely with her husband, Jeff, on the weekly broadcasts for many years. Using the on-air-name Zoe Moore, she also hosted her own nationally distributed show from 2009 until 2013, a Hot AC companion to "The Acoustic Storm" known as "Organic Tracks."