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April 23-25, 2027
Lindsey B. Sarjeant is a Professor of Music at Florida A&M University and serves as Chairman of the FAMU Music Department and arranger for the Incomparable Marching “100” Band, symphonic Band and jazz ensembles. He is past Director of Jazz Studies and is a brilliant jazz pianist, composer, jazz lecturer, jazz historian, adjudicator, Marching Band […]
Leon Anderson, Jr., Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, joined the Florida State University faculty in 1998. His musical experience includes that of a classical and jazz percussionist, educator, clinician, and composer. Mr. Anderson earned the B.A. degree in Music Education at Louisiana Tech University and the M.A. degree in Percussion Performance at Southeastern […]
Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian who has published biographies of John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Ames—and now The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. He has also authored a memoir about his childhood in the Middle East. He is the Director of the Leon Levy Center for […]
Joy Sheffield Harris was born in Tripoli, Libya, on Wheelus Field Air Base then moved to Panama City, Florida just in time to attend Humpty Dumpty Kindergarten and later Florida State University. As a home economics and history teacher and later a marketing specialist for the Florida Department of Natural Resources and the Florida Poultry […]
Nominated in 2019 for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Salley is the 2018 & 2019 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Songwriter of the Year and was named the 2003 SESAC Country Music Songwriter of the Year. Salley has had over 560 different songs recorded, and his songs have sold in excess of 19 million […]
Musician, songwriter, author and award winning filmmaker Jennifer Msumba took the top prize in the 2020 Easterseals Disability challenge with her film The Fish Don’t Care When It Rains. Her ever- increasing tribe of 32k followers enjoy a steady diet of her vlogs and interviews on her YouTube channel, simply titled Jennifer Msumba. Her debut […]
Jennifer Daniels is an award-winning singer/songwriter and teaching artist who has released nine music albums, a picture book, and has just welcomed her first novel into the world! As an assistant to Eric Litwin (author of Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes), Jennifer’s family shows are full of interactive songs, stories, and movement […]
Heather Maloney has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and SPIN Magazine described her as “stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable”. Her new […]
Hank is a writer, editor and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 20 years, he has covered jazz, metal and various other styles for publications including Rolling Stone (where he’s currently on staff as a senior editor), The New York Times, Pitchfork, AllMusic.com and Time Out New York. In 2011, he published […]
Besides his life as a bass player, Greg Cohen has also worked as an arranger, producer, musical director and composer for the theater, film, television and recording studios. The recordings he has been a part of have received various critical acclaim -including the Pulitzer Prize (Ornette Coleman), gold records and many album of the year […]