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Roland Guerin grew up in a musical family.  He first learned music from his mother, a bass player who taught him that you can’t make it in music without a strong groove and feeling. Roland studied Marketing at Southern University in Baton Rouge, where he joined legendary ja... Read more

Few pianists or composers are able to embrace the breadth and depth of New Orleans’ piano traditions as Tom McDermott. The venerable musician grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he absorbed ragtime, traditional jazz, and, inevitably, the sounds of New Orleans musical lege... Read more

Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, La, is a prolific and eclectic composer, pianist, and arranger. Her compositions range from solo works to large ensembles in the jazz and new music idioms, film scores, and collaborations of dancers, visual artists, writers, and acto... Read more

Raised in Gonzales, Louisiana, Douget was adopted into a mixed race family. His Cajun father exposed him to all things Acadian from food to music. In a region known for mixing African, Latin, Native American, and European traditions and cultures, Douget celebrates his part ... Read more

Shannon Powell is a legendary New Orleans jazz drummer and educator who can be found with his own combo or with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Kermit Ruffins, or other high-end Crescent City combos. Powell, raised in the storied, musically-inclined Treme neighborhood, was... Read more

Joe Krown is a New Orleans piano and B-3 master, known for his prowess in the funk, blues, boogie-woogie and jazz arenas, and for his work with The Joe Krown Organ Combo, for his legacy with Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and, presently, as a member of the hard-touring Kenny Wa... Read more

Victor “Red” Atkins hails from Selma, Alabama. He began playing with Delfeayo Marsalis in 1989 and went on to perform with Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Aaron Neville, and many more. Victor is currently a member of Irvin Mayfield's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Read more