Jazz

Pianist and composer Mina Cho was on track for a dazzling classical career when she first encountered jazz and gospel music as a university student in her native Seoul. Private study of her new passion for jazz led her to the Berklee College of Music, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a degree in Film Scoring and Jazz Composition, receiving many awards as both a composer and pianist. While at Berklee, her musical palette expanded to include South American, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian styles under the mentorship of Venezuelan pianist/composer Leo Blanco.

I'm mainly a blues rock improvisational guitarist. I also play harmonica, bass, and sing. It's all about having fun and expressing one's self.

Amy Kucharik is a singer-songwriter, dancer, and DJ from Somerville, MA. Amy writes and performs songs on ukulele, and has been featured as a vocalist with several local and national musicians. Her influences include Bessie Smith and the Asylum Street Spankers, and her vocals have been compared to Lena Horne. Her song "Dance Crush Blues" has been DJed at blues dance events across the country and as far away as Israel.

Born out of an unstoppable need to just get out there and play, the Dirty Water Brass Band is surfacing out of the catacombs of Somerville, MA, generating an oftentimes raucous but then again sometimes subtle sound that could be defined as music from the bayou and beyond. We are Mary Curtin (alto sax), Jamie Pierce (tenor sax), Jim Overly (sousaphone), Todd Page (trombone), Gary Smiley (trumpet), & Don Stevenson (drums); Alan Lenarcic (founding member/sax)