Music for All Seasons Benefit Show | 7.9 | 7PM

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MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS BENEFIT CONCERT | JULY 9 | 7PM

Sami Stevens, Emma Frank, Aubrey Johnson, Tavonna Miller, and Joanna Sternberg are putting on an intimate night of music to raise money for Music for all Seasons; a local organization which provides music programming to those who need it most.

Joanna Sternberg is a singer, songwriter, musician and visual artist born/based in New York City. Joanna started taking piano lessons when they turned 5. Joanna taught themself how to play the guitar and electric bass when they were 11. Joanna attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. They started studying double bass during their freshman year. Joanna got a full scholarship to Mannes College of Music, and studied classical double bass there for a year and a half. Joanna decided to leave the school and take a year off. During that year they did nothing but stay in their room and draw comics. Joanna has been a freelance musician and visual artist since they were 18-years-old. Joanna finished their double bass performance degree at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, where they got a full scholarship. When Joanna was 23, they began writing songs and learning how to sing. At the age of 24 Joanna started singing in public while accompanying themself on different instruments. Today, Joanna continues to write songs, sing, create visual art and play instruments (double bass, electric bass, guitar, piano, violin, drums, banjo and mandolin.)

Emma Frank is a songwriter and vocalist living in brooklyn. she's working at playing her songs solo, which she will do at this performance.

Singer/Songwriter Tavonna Miller emerged from Los Angeles performing her heartfelt and soulful songs for large and small audiences alike. With the release of her albums, “Peace, Love & the Lack Thereof” in February 2012 & "The Beauty of Believing" in July 2016 the Pop-Soul songwriter contributes bodies of work to the world of music that express her artistic observations. In her quest to continue creating art that inspires, Tavonna has been blessed to watch her catchy tunes and down-to-earth stage persona be eagerly embraced by music lovers of all backgrounds.

Aubrey Johnson is a New York-based vocalist, composer, and educator who specializes in jazz, Brazilian, and creative contemporary music. Aubrey is a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, Queens College, and Montclair State University. She has performed and/or recorded with the Lyle Mays Quintet, Jimmy Cobb, John Patitucci, Janis Siegel, John Zorn's Mycale Vocal Quartet, Fred Hersch, among many others. Aubrey recorded on Bobby McFerrin's 2010 Grammy-nominated release, "VOCAbuLaries", and on Arturo O'Farrill's 2020 Grammy-award winning album "Four Questions''. Her performing and teaching has taken her throughout the US and Canada and to Central and South America, Europe, and Asia. Aubrey's debut record featuring her original music and arrangements, produced by Steve Rodby of the Pat Metheny Group, was released in March of 2020 on Outside In Music.

Randy Ingram, pianist/composer, has been hailed as “gifted” (Jazz Times) and “a formidable composer” (San Francisco Chronicle). Ingram’s latest recording for Sunnyside Records, The Means of Response, is an intricate, virtuosic and powerful protest record, and a message of hope and solidarity for his young son. A collection of “exquisitely performed pieces, all composed by Ingram”, (Jazz Times), The Means of Response was largely composed at New Hampshire’s MacDowell Colony following the news of the 2016 election. The Means of Response features his trio of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Jochen Rueckert, two of jazz’s most esteemed veteran sidemen. Originally from California, Ingram attended the New England Conservatory of Music before moving to Brooklyn, NY in 2003. He frequently tours throughout Europe and Japan, and has played with leading musicians including John Patitucci, Ari Hoenig, Tierney Sutton, Ingrid Jensen, Joe LaBarbera, Kendrick Scott, Lage Lund and the late Billy Higgins. A committed educator, Ingram is a faculty member at Drew University.


 
 
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