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Alyssa Allgood

Born: September 5, 1992

Named a “Rising Star Female Vocalist” in the 2024 and 2025 Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and voted “Best Individual Jazz Musician” in the 2024 Chicago Reader Poll, Alyssa Allgood has captured attention for her dynamic vocal command, sophisticated songwriting, and captivating performances. Showcasing modern sensibilities, Allgood is a fearless vocalist known for her confident musical interaction, fierce improvisation, and vulnerable expression. Downbeat Magazine has praised her “boldness, swagger, and surefooted musicianship” while the New York City Jazz Record has recognized her “force, clarity and jazz integrity.”

April Mae

Biography April Mae & The June Bugs are rising stars in the East Coast music scene. With a string of impressive recent performances, including the Philadelphia Folk Festival and MusikFest, AM&TJB have been garnering recent press, dubbed the “The Breakout Surprise Act” on more than one occasion. January 2015 kicked off with a full page front cover feature story in the Courier Post. In 2014 they were featured in the Burlington County Times, AL.com, and a TV appearance on Time/Warner Cable. “She’s doing stuff that nobody else is doing…with a flair for off-the-wall sound that’s really fresh right now,” says Lon Mickelson, blues promoter with Blues Women International

Tanya Tiet

As a vocalist and a live performer, Tanya Tiet (pronounced: tee-yay) has honed a style all her own as she impulsively swoops from soothing tones that caress emotions to fire-laced bellows that inspire celebration through movement. Tiet keeps us guessing and for that reason alone, we keep watching. Tanya Tiet has distinguished herself by completing multiple tours overseas and singing with prominent international artists such as the legendary group Sister Sledge (Including a European tour that also showcased industry icons, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Kool & the Gang and the Earth, Wind & Fire Experience featuring Al McKay)

Jessica Lee

Born: September 2, 1969

Jessica Lee is an American Jazz & Blues singer with a unique voice influenced by Jazz, Blues, Rhythm & Blues and Inspirational music.  She performs "Classic," "Contemporary" and "Crossover" Jazz & Blues, and has produced shows with innovative, customized themes for charity performances and for concerts at theaters, festivals, jazz & blues clubs, arts centers and country & urban clubs throughout the country.  Jessica has had the pleasure of writing, recording and performing with wonderfully talented musicians, including a long collaboration with guitar great Mark Strickland and with some of her favorite Jazz mentors.

Anne Burnell

Before she recorded her last album Blues In The Night: Songs by Harold Arlen, Anne Burnell, one of Chicago’s most versatile live performers, followed a classic roadmap paying lush tribute to a legend. The collection was an NPR and jazz radio sensation across the U.S., and was played internationally on Jazz & Blues Tour Radio, Amsterdam and Canada and – testament to its “cool” factor with young tastemakers hit the Top Ten on the CMJ charts. Anne’s latest, the gloriously diverse and whimsically titled Summer Days & Dreamy Nights, celebrates not a single composer but a singular friendship between the singer/songwriter and renowned Windy City based jazz guitarist Henry Johnson, who produced, arranged and plays electric and acoustic throughout the 13 track set. She met Johnson three years ago at Andy’s Jazz Club during one of the many gigs she played there with her husband and frequent musical partner, pianist and vocalist Mark Burnell. They struck up an immediate friendship and had a feeling they would soon be collaborating on a project.

Alita Moses

Alita Moses is a CT-born, Philadelphia-brewed vocalist taking the New York City music scene by storm. At 23-years-old, she has earned a BM in Jazz Vocal Performance from the University of the Arts, won the 2014 Shure Montreux Jazz Vocal Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and performed internationally with the likes of Al Jarreau, Patti Austin, Lee Ritenour, Steve Davis, Joel Frahm, The Philadelphia Pops Orchestra, and many more solo artists and groups. While her career started in jazz, her versatility and inspirations have led her to the neo-soul scene where she has made a mark with her band, Lohai, and has been recruited for performances like singing with rapper Vic Mensa on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Lucky Vamp

Born: February 2

Lucky Vamp is the mesmerising vocal performance of Sally Jane Hurst, supported in duo, trio or large band format as the setting requires. Sally Jane Hurst’s voice has a sweetness and control that is deceptive in its power and depth. Her performance is always tailored to suit the venue, from small and intimate or large and celebratory. If you want powerful emotional ballads Sally delivers classic lyrics in a deceptively simple and honest style giving her a unique blend of artistic interpretation and passion in one class package. Sally has performed in some of London’s most prestigious music venues, such as The Royal Festival Hall, St

Alison Rycroft

Growing up on a farm in Burnley, Alison's first foray into jazz was as a singer in her University's Big Band in Dundee in which she performed for two years. Her love of jazz was sealed by the year she spent in New York, using her spare time to listen, and sometimes perform, in legendary jazz clubs. Since returning to the UK and moving to London she has perfomed at venues including the Bull's Head, Hideaway Jazz Club, Oliver's Jazz Bar, the Commander Bar and the Pheasantry. She has also been featured on BBC Radio Scotland. Her influences include: Carmen Mcrae, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Liane Carroll to name but a few. Alison is a fledgling lyricist and songwriter with new material on the way

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