User:Newsygirl/Clayton Park

Clayton Park is a notable award winning newspaper reporter and editor and musician from Seattle, Washington. He is currently the Business Editor of the Volusia Flagler Business Report and the assistant Business Editor of the Daytona Beach News Journal. He is also one of the two founding core members of The Park-O-Lators (Parkolators), an original Americana band based in Daytona Beach, Florida, along with Susan Brehme Park.

Newspaper Editor and Reporter
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Newspaper Publisher
From 1997 to 2004, Clayton Park and Susan Brehme Park published the Jet City Maven/Seattle Sun newspaper. The paper originally was called the Jet City Maven for "Jet City" a nickname used to refer to Seattle, and "Maven," a neighborhood know-it-all, but was renamed the Seattle Sun newspaper on January 2002 in response to the 9-11 attacks. The newspaper had a circulation of 25,000 free copies, was published monthly, and distributed throughout North Seattle from the ship canal north to the city limits. Susan Park worked full time as managing editor and publisher while Clayton Park continued to work as the Business Editor at the Eastside Journal in Bellevue, WA, now defunct. The paper won numerous awards, including a Neighborhoods USA Award in 1997. The paper was sold to Town Crier, who took over operations beginning in the fall of 2004.

Musician
Clayton Park is a singer/songwriter and is currently one of the two founding core members of the band, The Park-O-Lators, an Americana band based in Daytona Beach, FL. He plays guitar and fiddle and is one of the two lead singers and songwriters for the band.

He has also been a member of several other bands, primarily as an acoustic fiddle or electric violin player.

While living in Seattle he was a member of several bands including: rock band, Somebody's Daughter from 1990 to 1994; ambient jazz band, Mystery School from 1993 to 1995; acoustic swing band, The Jim Basnight Thing from 1995 to 1996; bluegrass band, Round the Bend from 2005 to 2006; bluegrass band, The Cowtippers from 2006 to 2007; and several other bands. He also ran his own band, Someone Somewhere from 1994 to 1996 before quitting to run his own newspaper, the Jet City Maven.

He has also backed numerous musicians on recordings and live performances, including Jason Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players), the Walkabouts, and Rachel Harrington in Seattle. After moving to Florida in 2007, he began backing other musicians, including Casey Raines, Quartermoon (?), and the Halifax Contraband.

From 1990 to 1994, he was a member of Somebody's Daughter, a rock band founded by singer-songwriter-guitarists Sheryl Wiser and Dustin Waln. At their peak, the band opened up for Tori Amos and the Crash Test Dummies and was featured in a movie ______ (name)______.

In ____ Clayton was featured as a fiddle player on the TV show, Northern Exposure. He appears in the deleted scenes of Season 3, Episode ____.