On stage or sidelines, this jazz artist always goes back to music

Joe Costello is the owner and founder of Onstage Entertainment Group. Photo courtesy of Joe Costello Joe Costello is an Arcadia-area entrepreneur who runs an entertainment company with a roster of more than 1,200 performing artists. What’s more, he built that business on the professional skills he learned as a touring blues and jazz drummer. As a young man, Costello was devoted to a performing career, studying and practicing intensely to reach his 10,000-hour practice goal and achieve fame as a musician.“I loved it. I loved everything about it,” he said.Costello, who grew up just south of Albany, New York, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in jazz ensemble from SUNY Fredonia and moved to the heart of the jazz and blues scene in New York City after graduation to pursue his ambitions.

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