It all begins with an idea.
Four Count Concepts is unique in that its background includes concert promotion/production and event planning. Its business team includes artists with extensive touring and studio experience, providing a distinctively positive artist/audience perspective many agencies can’t offer. Whether it’s a regionally or nationally recognized musical performer, keynote speaker or even a celebrity chef, Four Count Concepts brings the best entertainment experience to your event.
Meet the Team
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Ike Marr
FOUNDER
Isaac “Ike” Marr founded Four Count Concepts in 2007 as the only full-service talent agency in the Lake Tahoe Basin; he has since grown it into a regional agency specializing in private and corporate events primarily serving Lake Tahoe, Reno, San Francisco and San Diego.
A classically trained musician with an extensive performance history, accomplished chef and restaurateur with a growing list of establishments (the Old Post Office Café, Carnelian Bay, Calif.; the Pink House, Genoa, Nev.), Marr is well known to countless Lake Tahoe-area music lovers as the ferociously talented viola/mandolin/guitar-playing half of acclaimed duo Ike and Martin.
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Martin Shears
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
London native Martin Shears is an acclaimed musician, songwriter, engineer and producer with more than 35 years of professional audio experience in London, Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Lake Tahoe area. He founded Brilliant Audio Productions in 2000 as a full-service recording, mixing and production studio currently based in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Shears has an extensive list of production, post-production and songwriting credits, plus numerous international film and television music credits for his own compositions. Most notably in the Lake Tahoe area, he is well known to countless music fans for his powerful vocals and impeccable musical multi-tasking on guitar and bass pedals in acclaimed duo Ike and Martin, and in Beatle-esque duo the Fab Lads.
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Rob Brooks
SENIOR AGENT
Rob promoted his first show at 23 and has been hooked ever since. From Social Distortion, Beck and Rod Stewart to Loretta Lynn, Morrissey and Tim McGraw he has produced live performances from some of the best. Throw in 25 years of radio programming and you have an entertainment specialist.
"I'm so grateful for all of it." "Now I feel lucky to work with such great new talent. I can't wait to see where their careers will take them."
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Miranda Meisenbach
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Bay-Area native Miranda Meisenbach first brought her wealth of expertise in marketing, design and artist relations to the FCC team in 2020. A 15-year veteran of the professional event industry, Meisenbach has owned and operated Bay Area/South Lake Tahoe-based event planning company Mira WED since 2008, specializing in small-to-large corporate functions, weddings and other social events in Northern California and the Lake Tahoe area.
Under the stage name Miranda Rae Love, Meisenbach is also well known to countless Northern California and Lake Tahoe-area fans of rock, country and Americana music. With her soulful vocals and seasoned guitar playing, she continues to wow audiences as a solo artist and with her eponymously named band.
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Jeff Owens
MARKETING CONSULTANT
Jeff Owens joined the Four Count Concepts team in 2022. An accomplished bass guitarist and award-winning newspaper/magazine journalist, he has combined both pursuits into an 18-year-plus career as a writer and editor with the Fender Musical Instruments Corp. in Scottsdale, Ariz.
As an in-demand Phoenix bassist, Owens has numerous session, film and television credits as both musician and songwriter, and has backed up artists including Alice Cooper, Pat DiNizio (Smithereens), Nils Lofgren (E-Street Band), Robby Krieger (Doors), Colin Hay (Men at Work) and others. Since relocating to the Reno-Lake Tahoe area, he has become increasingly familiar to area music fans as the sometime-bassist for acclaimed act Ike and Martin and as half of Beatle-esque duo the Fab Lads.