Higher Grounds
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In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone.
Language: English
Format: Audio Drama
Continuity: Serial
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Full cast
Narrator: First Person
Genres: Crime and Mystery
Framing device: Show within a show
Soundscape: Sound effects & music
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Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:58:28 -0700
In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone.
Higher Grounds is the debut fiction podcast series from YellaBird Media
Premiering February 2026. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
Written and produced by Kimberly Conway,
Starring:
Laura Jane Jones as Sylvia
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni
Janice Lynn Sykes as Roz
Katy Yoder as Elle
Kimberly Conway as Kat
Robert Fleet as Gentry
Gervais Weekes as Charles
Stacey Lightman as Randi
and a full cast
Sound Design & Mixing: YellaBird Media
Mixing & Mastering: Rick Such
Website: www.yellabird.com
Instagram: @YellaBirdMedia
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Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:59:15 -0800
In the series premiere, journalist Kat Singleton arrives at Higher Grounds to speak with the women behind Nashville’s most infamous coffeehouse. Thirty years ago, the coffeehouse made international headlines when child star turned rock icon Elle Harrison was found dead in its parking lot. Six weeks later, mobster Carmine D’Orazio was gunned down in the same spot. Both cases were closed quickly, but questions have lingered for decades.
Now, for the first time, the women who built Higher Grounds are ready to speak.
Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds traces four women’s lives across the decades—friendship, ambition, fame, and fallout—leading to the moment long-buried secrets erupted into one of Music City’s most explosive scandals.
The story begins here, in the summer of ’62.
Written and produced by Kimberly Conway.
Dive deeper into the story and explore upcoming YellaBird productions at: www.yellabird.com
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Theme song: “Everything Changes” by Laura Jane Jones, available on Apple Music and Spotify.
Featuring performances by:
Laura Jane Jones as Sylvia Richardson
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni McKay
Janice Lynn Sykes as Rozalyn Mitchell
Kimberly Conway as Kat Singleton
Tara Madison as Reporter
Brianne Buishas as Young Elle
Kyle Sanderson as Announcer
Rachanee Lumayno as Opening and Closing Narration
Sound design and mixing by YellaBird Media.
Mixing and mastering by Rick Such.
Transcript and additional information available at:
The Divine Darlings | Episode 2
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:29:01 -0800
It’s 1967. Sylvia, Roz, Joni, and Elle form a singing group called The Divine Darlings. What starts on church stages quickly grows into something bigger. But as ambition begins to surface and first loves complicate loyalties, the four friends take their first real step toward the spotlight—unaware of where that step will lead.
Written and produced by Kimberly Conway.
Dive deeper into the story and explore upcoming YellaBird productions at: www.yellabird.com
Follow YellaBird Media:
Instagram: @yellabirdmedia
YouTube: YellaBird Media
Theme song: “Everything Changes” by Laura Jane Jones, available on Apple Music and Spotify.
Featuring performances by:
Laura Jane Jones as Sylvia Richardson
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni McKay
Janice Lynn Sykes as Rozalyn Mitchell
Katy Yoder as Elle Harrison
Gervais Weekes as Charles Richardson
Kimberly Conway as Kat Singleton
Jennifer Tzoumas as Allison Andrews
Rachanee Lumayno as Opening and Closing Narration
Sound design and mixing by YellaBird Media.
Mixing and mastering by Rick Such.
Transcript and additional information available at:
© 2026 YellaBird Media. All rights reservedWed, 04 Mar 2026 00:07:00 -0800
It’s 1969. The Divine Darlings are riding high on their first studio recording when real life closes in. A humiliating scene in a school parking lot. The Vietnam War divides the nation. As the world outside grows louder and more volatile, the girls are forced to make difficult choices, and the future they once imagined begins to slip out of reach.
Written and produced by Kimberly Conway.
Dive deeper into the story and explore upcoming YellaBird productions at: www.yellabird.com
Follow YellaBird Media:
Instagram: @yellabirdmedia
YouTube: YellaBird Media
Theme song: “Everything Changes” by Laura Jane Jones, available on Apple Music and Spotify.
Featuring performances by:
Laura Jane Jones as Sylvia Richardson
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni McKay
Janice Lynn Sykes as Rozalyn Mitchell
Katy Yoder as Elle Harrison
Gervais Weekes as Charles Richardson
Kimberly Conway as Kat Singleton
Rachanee Lumayno as Opening and Closing Narration
Sound design and mixing by YellaBird Media.
Mixing and mastering by Rick Such.
Transcript and additional information available at:
© 2026 YellaBird Media. All rights reservedNineteen Dollars and Eighty-Three Cents | Episode 4
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:07:00 -0700
It’s 1970. The girls are scattered across the country, trying to hold onto each other through letters as their lives start to split at the seams. In Louisiana, Sylvia is pushed into survival mode by a relentless series of events. In Nashville, Joni is left to navigate a new kind of loneliness, when a day of celebration turns into a night she will never forget.
Written and produced by Kimberly Conway.
Dive deeper into the story and explore upcoming YellaBird productions at: www.yellabird.com
Follow YellaBird Media:
Instagram: @yellabirdmedia
YouTube: YellaBird Media
Theme song: “Everything Changes” by Laura Jane Jones, available on Apple Music and Spotify.
Featuring performances by:
Laura Jane Jones as Sylvia Richardson
Cynthia Ergenbright as Joni McKay
Gervais Weekes as Charles Richardson
Kimberly Conway as Kat Singleton
Rachanee Lumayno as Opening and Closing Narration
Sound design and mixing by YellaBird Media.
Mixing and mastering by Rick Such.
Transcript and additional information available at:
© 2026 YellaBird Media. All rights reserved