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Charmaine Michelle

Charmaine Michelle doesn’t know how you and her arrived at this divine checkpoint together but she’s so glad you’re here and this audacious artist guarantees you will not leave unchanged. Whether as a trumpeter, composer, writer or spoken word artist Charmaine Michelle has a passion for using her creative gifts to uplift and enlighten her audiences. At the age of four, she began her musical journey in the children’s choir at First Baptist Church in Vienna, Virginia, where she developed a love for hymns and Negro spirituals. In elementary school, Charmaine Michelle first started playing the cello but later switched to the trumpet

The Savoy Band

Matthew Shell

Matthew Shell (also known as MTS), is a music producer and engineer. Based in Washington DC, his versatile production style spans genres as wide as jazz and rock, to RnB and soul. Matthew writes and produces music released as solo productions under his own name, as well as for other bands and solo artists. He is the founder and CEO of publishing house and record label MTS Music. Shell’s work on the production for Marcus Johnson’s album Flo: Chill reached #7 on Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Chart in 2009. Later that year he worked as the engineer on O.A.R.’s album Rain or Shine that reached #5 on the Independent Albums Chart and also #7 on the US Alternative Albums Chart

Les Rhinoceros

Hailing from New York/Washington, DC area, Les Rhinocéros delivers a crazy world in sound, blending aspects of rock, world music, noise, ambient and jazz. Described as "world music from a country that doesn't exist", the group was formed in 2008 by bassist and composer Michael Coltun and has developed since then into an intense and wildly imaginative group that takes music to its extremes. Emotional, minimalistic, intense and grooving, this is music that goes beyond imagination to the edges of sanity. Les Rhinocéros has released 3 albums (to date) on John Zorn's Tzadik Label: Les Rhinocéros (2011), Les Rhinocéros II (2013), and Les Rhinocéros III (2015)

Peter Kelley

Born: August 13, 1957

Renee Collins Georges

Born: June 25

Renée Collins Georges, is a Los Angeles, California native, who has carved out a career as a vocalist, voice over talent, songwriter and teaching artist. Always using her voice to entertain and educate, Renée is a vocalist, songwriter (ASCAP), voiceover talent, Recording Academy member (DC Chapter), and teaching artist  (Arts for Learning in Baltimore, Maryland, and Arlington County Public Schools); A 2017 Mid Atlantic Jazz Vocal Competition finalist; a Jenga Music LLC Voice Coach, and a 2015 Grant Award recipient of the DC Arts and Humanities, Creative Sparks Initiative. She is the Founder, Executive/Creative Director of Kidz MusiQ Club LLC, Jazzing Up Learning!™ (a music arts initiative with the goal to introduce, entertain and promote jazz appreciation for children and teens)

Jonathan Steele

Born: September 24, 1970

Jon Steele is a bass player, educator, arranger, and composer in Washington DC. He's gigged with many of the best jazz musicians in town, recorded with all kinds of artists, and maintains a loyal roster of students. His latest release as a leader features world class musicians- Kevin Hays, Vinnie Colaiuta, Tedd Baker, Tom Williams, and Mike Pavone. Having studied both jazz and classical at the University of Tennessee, Jon graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Studio Music and Jazz and a Master's degree in Double Bass Performance. He has toured throughout the U.S., and worked with a diversity of artists such as Donald Brown, Louise Mandrell, and Sarah Lipstate, and also with symphonies in Tennessee and North Carolina

Dick Smith

Vocalist and former Washington Redskin Dick Smith is a legend in D.C., both as a performer and as organizer of Jazz Night in Southwest, the long-running concert series that draws hundreds of music fans every Friday night. It's no wonder Washingtonian Magazine named him one of the "wizards" who makes the D.C. music scene what it is today. As the crowd that follows him wherever he goes will tell you, Dick is more than just a performer – he is an entertainer extraordinaire. 


Adrian Norton

Born: January 5, 1963

I began my musical journey by playing the trumpet in Elementary and Jr. High School. By the seventh grade I switched over to the Tuba, due to the fact that everyone else played the trumpet and there was a need for someone to play the Tuba. That is where I started and learned to love the foundation of the bass and how very important it was to music in general. I started playing the electric bass when I was 14 years old. I continued my musical journey at Suitland Sr. High School and at Prince Georges Community College. I am also one of the founding fathers of the popular 80’s Go-Go band Ayre Rayde

Sharon Simpkins

Born: August 21