Allison Bankston's Bio
  I guess I can really attach several titles to myself--broadcaster, singer/musician, homemaker, and now martial artist. I started singing solos in church when I was just 3 years old, spent 6 years on the road with a gospel singing team, and then studied opera in Chicago's Wheaton Conservatory. I returned to Maine after college and became the choir and music director for a church in Levant, participated in various short-lived folk groups, and became a professional soloist, doing everything from weddings and funerals to charity functions.  
A lot has changed over the years. Now, I'm the lead singer of a rock-funk band called Groovewheel that plays throughout New England. That's actually how I met my partner, Gaylen. He became our bass player.

My  first radio job was in 1986, at WHCF in Bangor, when I was a sophomore in high school. I continued doing radio part-time through college more as a hobby than anything else. After coming back to Maine I realized radio was really what made me happy, and I got my associates degree from New England School of Communications in Bangor. While attending school there, I worked as a part time DJ at FOX 104.7 and then got a job as a weekend and fill-in reporter for Channel 5, WABI-TV. I later spent 4 years as the morning anchor for Channel 5-TV in Bangor.

After 2 years of being a disaster specialist and spokesperson for the American Red Cross for the state of Maine, I took a job at Cumulus Media-Bangor and  started doing the morning shows on Q106.5 and Z107.3. I'm still there, 6 years later, having found my niche doing what makes me the happiest--except for the early hours.
Now, I live in Brewer with my partner, Gaylen, and his two children--Mackenzie and Parker--
and my cat, Lorena Bobtail.
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