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My name is Justin Butler. I am 37 years old and I am from St. Louis, MO. I am a professional musician and music producer/audio engineer as well as a part time singer-songwriter. My two main instruments are the guitar and the drums, and I have been playing both for 24 years.

My name is Dave Cipriani, I have been playing guitar for over 30 years, and professionally for 20. I have a BA in Classical Guitar Performance from St. Mary's College of Maryland, an MFA in World Music Performance from California Institute of the Arts. I currently mainly play 20-string Indian Slide Guitar and 7-string classical guitar in improvised styles.

John is a Nashville based multi instrumentalist, artist and instructor. Whether you're looking to learn your first chord, sharpen your craft or finally pick up the pedal steel, he is fit to guide you on your musical journey. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2013 and promptly moved to Nashville.

Skully Lawrence is a native of Sierra Vista, AZ and moved to Norwich, England at age 21 to play with an American childhood friend and 3 British lads in a band named “Allied Forces”. After much touring and efforts to launch the band he returned to Phoenix, AZ. Within a couple of years he joined up with Lurch Killz (original bass player for Sacred Reich).

Gavin grew up in Snoqualmie, Washington and studied guitar with Davey French, guitarist of the rock band Everclear for 6+ plus years. At the age of 16, he started to play guitar in multiple cover bands while also participating in the Mount Si Band program. ​In 2012, Gavin began teaching private and group guitar classes at Big Star Studios in his hometown of Snoqualmie.

I attended The University of Texas at Austin, where I studied guitar and got my BA in Recording Technology. Currently, I am the touring bass player for The Oh Hellos. The Oh Hellos have spent the last five years touring across the United States, as well as Canada and the United Kingdom.

Bassist and composer Wenjun Wu is well-versed in various strains of music, including jazz, improvised music, hip-hop, and pop music. He is based in Boston, MA. Wenjun pursued a Masters’ Degree from Berklee College’s Global Jazz Institute with a full-tuition scholarship. Study with Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, and Terri Lyne Carrington.

Flora Lucini is a professional performing, recording and touring artist with over 10+ years of experience in various genres including: Rock, Punk/Hardcore, Indie, Latin Jazz and Music of the African Diaspora. Following in the footsteps of her family of named Jazz/Latin Jazz musicians, Ms. Lucini has been performing and studying music since the age of 3.

From as early as I can remember, I was aware of the magic and power of sound. Harmony, melody, and rhythm were constant companions growing up — whether I was syncing footsteps to imaginary beats on the sidewalk or singing harmonies to ’70s radio hits from the back seat of my parents’ AMC Gremlin, music was always there. I come from a long line of musicians.

Marshal Herridge is a Vancouver-born jazz bassist currently residing in New York, New York. He has shared the stage with some of North America's preeminent jazz musicians including Anthony Wonsey, Andre White, Kirk MacDonald, Joe Sullivan, Kevin Dean, Al McClean, Remi Bolduc, Joe Farnsworth, Steve Cardenas, Mike Rodriguez, Dave Laing, Lorne Lofsky, Peter Bernstein, John Scofield,…