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Gail Shipp

Gail Shipp is a native Washingtonian who grew up listening to Jazz Greats such as Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McCrae, and Gloria Lynne to name a few. Some of Gail’s performance credits include Blues Alley, Takoma Station night club, the opening performance for the Silver Spring Jazz Festival, local jazz legend Marcus Johnson, and for the Washington Area Music Industry Awards to name a few. She has performed with R&B artists Johnny Gill, Stacey Lattisaw, and Kenny Lattisaw. She also recorded with as jazz recording artist Roy Ayers, and has appeared at D.C.’s Listner Auditorium as opening act with her then R & B band for jazz diva, Shirley Horn

Mary Nelson

Marys interest for jazzmusic came without her even noticing! Very early she had a big interest for old MGM movies from the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's and the musical scores in them. The same songs that later were rearranged and made in to jazzstandards. In her childhood years, her American father Paul used to play music for her from the American Hollywoodera from artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby, combined with Leonard Bernsteins musicals and classical work. He spoke about his years in NYC in the early 50's when he saw the original version/cast of West Side Story on Broadway, heard Martin Luther King speak live at the Apollo Theatre, and everything about the movies, music and the musicals

Rebecca Richardson

Professional vocalist Rebecca Richardson began her training at the age of thirteen, winning All-State and All-Northwest honors before finishing high school. She went on to graduate from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a degree in Jazz Vocal Performance and a minor in bass, and continued her studies in New York with master classes in piano and voice at the esteemed Juilliard School. Her love of jazz music has led her down many paths - from Seattle to New York, Paris and Amsterdam - landing now here in Naples, where she and her trio serve as the house band for Campiello. She headlines many concerts for The Art League of Bonita Springs, Bayshore CAPA, and the Naples Botanical Gardens. Rebecca loves classical music as well - you can see her performing roles with Opera Naples and their resident troupe "ONcore", in concert, at area churches and as founder and director of the Naples Carolers

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Nicole Zuraitis

Grammy® Nominated New York based musician Nicole Zuraitis blends clever songwriting skills, an effervescent presence and dazzling vocals in a consummate package that has thrilled audiences across Manhattan and across the world. If recently you happened upon Greenwich Village’s 55 Bar or Birdland Jazz Club and were enchanted by the seismic versatile talent of inspired vocalist, keyboard player and songwriter Nicole Zuraitis, you’re officially part of the lady-powerhouse burgeoning fan club. Nicole was nominated dually with her husband Dan Pugach in the arrangement category the 61st annual Grammy® Awards for their version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”

Lydia Pense

Born: December 14, 1947

Lydia and the band debuted when the Fillmore was at its peak as one of the nation's musical Mecca's. Owner Bill Graham was so impressed with Lydia's voice and the sound of the band that he immediately signed Cold Blood to his new record label. During the span of six original late-60's, early-70's albums, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood helped, along with Tower Of Power, forge their own specific brand of funk/soul and R&B which came to be known as East Bay Grease. That music still holds up today, proving that great music is timeless and will continue to inspire generations to come. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood packed the San Francisco Ballrooms in their heyday, but that was then and this is now

Melissa Manchester

Let’s hear it for the boys! More than 25 years after Melissa Manchester released Tribute, her 1989 album that honored the great female singers who influenced her, she turns the tables with The Fellas, a radiant encomium to the men, including Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin, and the iconic songs they made famous. Singing with a verve and emotional vulnerability that immediately captivates, the Grammy winner inventively reimagines these be-loved standards. She turns “Chances Are” into a sly bossa nova and scats with seemingly impossible ease on “Love Is Just Around The Corner,” while bringing an understated urgency to “Night and Day.” Many of these tunes embedded themselves into Manchester’s musical DNA while she was growing up on New York City’s Up-per West Side

Leonard Cohen

Born: September 21, 1934

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships.[1] Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters." Early life Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family

Tania Grubbs

Born: October 5, 1965

Vocalist TANIA GRUBBS doesn't just sing nice songs. She crafts stories out of well-chosen songs with love and care - and lets the listener feel the spirit behind each note. She doesn't stand in front of a stellar band of sidemen. Her voice is an integral instrument in a quintet of equals, a guiding thread that weaves everyone together whether singing a warm, engaging note, a challenging phrase, an especially stirring arrangement, a soulful turn, or hopeful sentiment.

When world-renowned trumpeter Sean Jones described Tania Grubbs, he said knowing her has been a joy, “not only because of her skill as an artist but because of her connection to humanity.”  There probably couldn’t be two more perfect words to describe not only Tania but her fascinating, beautiful music: joy and humanity. 

Bev Lee Harling

Born: July 24, 1990

Bev Lee Harling’s love of music and cooking combine in the Kitchen Sink Band where chopping boards, cheese graters, glass orchestras, colanders and a dog bowl are used along with music boxes, a musical saw and a 1950’s typewriter to create a musical, organic experience. Sometimes dark, sometimes frivolous, always engaging and human spirited, her songs’ common bond being the luscious, pure vocals that thread their way through the highs and lows of life experience.