Board of Directors

Mike Loperfido

Shane Hewitt

My friends call me ShaneO, and I was born and raised in the Gunnison valley, and still reside here. I fell in love with radio at an early age, and have played music most of my life, be it guitar, bass, drums, ukulele, etc. I was the weirdo who would record the radio on cassettes so I didn’t miss any good songs. I still have those cassettes, and listen to them once in awhile. I’ve been working with wood floors since I was about 15, and am currently at Renick Woodfloors. I was the lighting director for the Ibar Ranch for about a year, which was an awesome experience. 

I joined the worlds greatest radio station, KBUT, in 2022, and was a fill in DJ for a year before I got my very own show, RockHard Radio, every Wednesday from 10-noon. KBUT changed my life in so many ways, and I’m proud to be on the board of directors. I love being surrounded by other music nerds like me, something I only really experienced while in a band, and that completely sold me on the place. 

If there’s anything more beautiful than this valley, it’s the people that reside in it, and I’m proud to dedicate my time to the wonderful community service that is KBUT. Stay weird Gunnison valley!!! 

JC Barber

A New Hampshire native, I feel fortunate to have found, and moved to, Crested Butte for the first time in October of 1986, 3 months before KBUT first hit the air. After being canvassed passionately a few times times by Jim Michael, our de facto house DJ at the time, I decided to help relieve him of some of his extraordinary load of airtime. Being an agreeable sort, I got further coerced into doing 3 early morning shows a week for much of the first couple of winters I was on the air. A public radio baptism served by walking to that frigid bus barn at 5:30 am 3 days a week as a young adult. 9 years and a few hundred radio shows later, life led me to Alaska in the spring of 1995, where I continued as a volunteer DJ at KUAC in Fairbanks for several years.

27 years later, I have been able to return to my CB roots to raise my daughter here in the community where I expect to spend the rest of my life. Music has often defined me, becoming the basis of my career for the last 24 years, firmly embedded with a crew of former CB locals, and roommates, who found success as touring musicians. Shout out to 17 Elk Ave and the Forest Queen, our origin story.

I started in the non profit arena at an early age as a canvasser with the PIRGS and Greenpeace in New England and then CO. I caught back up with this and the Denali Foundation, now the Denali Education Center, during my decade plus up north. I am excited to be back in that field with KBUT, an entity that has meant so much to me for so many years.

I am grateful to be back “home”, the upper end of the East River Valley, where you’ll likely find me outdoors, on skis, a bike or boots exploring what I consider to be the most wonderful wilderness area in the world. Go KBUT!