Lynn Drury
Lynn Drury plays a style she calls “NOLAmericana” and has been an integral part of the New Orleans music scene for over 15 years. She was recently nominated for “Best Folk/Singer-songwriter and Best album” from Offbeat Magazine (2017), and “Songwriter of the Year” from Offbeat Magazine (2015), Best Female Performer by Gambit Weekly(2015), and has been featured at the Jazz & Heritage Festival for over 10 years. Her song “City Life” was also featured and used for ESPN’s 10 year Hurricane Katrina Anniversary video. Her most recent album, “Rise of the Fall” (2017) continues to garner accolades far and wide.
Charlie Wooten
“American Charlie Wooton is an inventive and extremely skillful bass player. Better yet, it’s a musical face. Its lines have melody, a seductive dance and/or a really contagious percussive footprint. Extrapolates the essential role of the accompaniment. Such a person could produce only peculiarly interesting works.And this was the case of ZabaDuo, a project developed alongside Brazilian percussionist Rafael Pereira. The 2015 instrumental album illustrates the “less is more” maxim in rich detail. It was practically carved with bass and tambourine. The exceptions are the participation of Daniel Groover (guitar in a track) and Laura Reed (vocal in two tracks). And look who comes around!”
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Johnny Mastro And Mama’s Boys
Johnny Mastro And Mama’s Boys have been based out of New Orleans for quite a while now, but they formed way out west at the legendary Babe’s And Ricky’s Inn in Los Angeles. It was there that club owner “Mama” Gross encouraged them to forge their own unique sound as long as it stayed true to the roots of the blues.
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Betsy Badwater
Betsy Badwater hammers down a stout distillation of rockabilly, country, blues, soul and high-lonesome. Betsy writes the songs, sings, plays guitar, and a tambourine-topped bass drum all at the same time. The Americana bandleader insists on organic instrumentation, guts-out-gospel vocalization, and rich, passionate, storytelling.
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Arsène DeLay
A soulful voice, from a jazz tradition, with a heart of rock and roll, makes for a styling as complex as the city she calls home. Arsene spent much her life on the road, starting on Milwaukee’s rich underground hip-hop and poetry scene with Poetree Chicago, Growing Nation, Black Elephant, & Sheree Amore, while finishing a BFA in Theatre Arts, at Marquette University. Her acting career took her to Los Angeles, where she would put the Ascona Jazz and Heritage Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the REDCAT Theatre at the Walt Disney Concert Hall under her belt before finishing her Master’s Degree in Acting from California Institute of the Arts.