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Robert C. Ford

Born: August 5, 1967

Robert C. Ford, known as the Wall $treet Poet, is a globe-trotting poet, lyricist and spoken word artist based in New York City. His performances span Europe and the Americas, and he is recognized for blending poetry with music; collaborating with world-class performers across genres including pop, rock, jazz and opera. His words are delivered both in his own voice and interpreted by acclaimed vocalists.

He has released two albums of poetry set to music: The Music Between Us (2021) and Footprints of Steel (2025). These works feature collaborations with notable composers such as Charles Coleman (Paavo Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra), Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson), Mark Kostabi (Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion, Ornette Coleman), Carli Muñoz (Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett), Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) and Jay Rodriguez Sierra (Groove Collective, Wu-Tang Clan).

Ford has also performed alongside other celebrated musicians including: Gerry Brown (drums--Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder), John Clark (horn--Gil Evans), Jane Getter (guitar--SNL Band), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Paul Nowinski (bass--Les Paul, Keith Richards), Harvie S (bass), Dave Soldier (violin--Bo Diddley, John Cale) and David Taylor (bass trombone--Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones).

He has graced the stages of prominent New York City venues such as Birdland Jazz Club, The Bitter End, Joe's Pub, Pianos, Le Poisson Rouge, Chelsea Table + Stage, Nublu, The Stonewall Inn and Theatre 80. Beyond NYC, he has performed at Howland Cultural Center (Beacon, NY), Jazz Club ZWE (Vienna, Austria), Centro Mexicana para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico), NWEAMO Festival (San Diego, CA) and University of Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica). In September 2022, he was featured with Grammy-winner Suzanne Vega at the Players Theatre as part of The Village Trip Festival.

Ford is also the host and curator of Sky Vault, an intimate concert and performance venue in New York City.

Dario Margeli

Born: January 1, 1974

Marko Buskevits

Born: March 3, 1987

Passionate musician and gearhead. Writer & editor for various music blogs.

Howard Tucker

Born: December 30, 1963

Howard “Sergio” Tucker is a writer/poet and performer, whose music embodies cultural fusion. Regularly performing in Brazilian lounges, Black Jazz & Soul clubs, he proudly delivers his gospel of love to R&B/Bossa Nova/Samba rhythms. Tucker has performed his poetic works at the Kimmel Center, Rittenhouse Soundworks, Relish Restaurant, World Café Live, and Freedom Theater, with various local bands & Brazilian musicians such as vocalist/guitarist Juliano Bragga, percussionist Dendê Macedo and Afro Brazilian dancer Cleonice Fonseca. In the process, he has collaborated with artists like Jay Fluellen, Kimpedro Rodriguez among others

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Alita Mantels

Born: October 31, 1950

I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where in 1968 I graduated as a National Merit Scholar from Grover Cleveland High School before moving to Arkansas. After graduating cum laude (with the equivalent of three language majors and an emphasis in comparative literature) from Hendrix College in 1972, I spent nearly four decades in public education before retiring in 2010. Though never a professional performer, for many years (1970s-1990s) I taught stage-crew courses, managed a 1400-seat classic performing arts theatre, and served as a technical director for various types of professional performances and community events in central Arkansas

Austin O BRIEN

Born: August 25, 1966

AUSTIN O’BRIEN & THE STRAWBERRY CREAMED ENSEMBLE For those who know the artist and showman, Austin O'Brien goes on stage with the obsession to win over the public. And with the rage of a boxer, he deploys all his energy to knock the public off their feet. The musicians that surrounds the petulant Irish jazz man are of the highest standtard and he leads them with style and panache. Ausitn follows the tradition of swing jazz and is influenced by Harry Connick Jr, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and pianists Monty Alexander, Oscar Peterson and Omar Sosa, strong personalities and major players, according to Austin, they all have a great sense of music and showmanship. Over the last 10 years Austin produced 4 albums and a “Live DVD”

André Pogoriloffsky

Born: February 26, 1968

André Pogoriloffsky is the pen name used by Andrei Covaciu- Pogorilowski for his book "The music of the Temporalists". He was born in Bucharest, Romania, in February 1968. Starting with 1982, he studied music independently, helped by several private professors. In 1989 A.P. started to hear in his head a strange yet beautiful music that he was unable to notate. Short excerpts were presented on the piano to his musician friends who confirmed that the temporal fabric of that music could not be rendered satisfactorily with help from the traditional, bar-rhythmical, semiography. Between that point and 1994, A.P

Adriano Clemente

Born in Lecce in 1958, he grew up in Naples, and although he did not have a formal musical training as a child, he started to play guitar and piano at an early age, and composed his first songs in the early seventies.

​In 1974 he began to set to music the William Blake’s poems, as a result of which he made his first concert in Naples in 1978.

​In 1979 he formed a group in Rome for performing his Blake songs. He sang and played guitar and lute with Andrea Damiani, lute; Alessio Colarizi, recorder, crumhorn; and Miranda Simmons, voice. The band performed at the Folk Studio, Fonclea and other clubs in Rome.

Casia

Casia is a lyricist from Canada who collaborates with 100+ solo artists and bands from Russia to Australia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ��" March 28, 2011 USA ��" “Three Dreamers And A Horse” has just released their debut album on cdbaby called idream The Color of Love and WOW, it’s an album definitely worth taking a listen to if you like pop-jazz. It’s smooth, it’s upbeat and each song has something special to offer. And how can you go wrong when the lead singer in all the songs is Latin Crooner, Raul Rodriquez Jr. For those who don’t know Raul, well he’s not just a singer, and he’s not new on the scene either