“Mother & Son’s Musical Collage feat. Charmaine Michelle & Bakhari Nokuri”

Music has an amazing ability to create connection and catharsis for families going through life’s challenges. This evening’s event with feature tone poems, original compositions and jazz standards that will touch on themes from a mother & son’s journey through Messianic Judiasm, Pan Africanism, Healing & the Black American experience.

Trumpeter, Composer and educator Charmaine Michelle walks in the tradition of Miles Davis while bringing her own style of cool jazz to the band stand. Raised in Northern Virginia, she studied jazz at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory, as a recipient of the Noble Levi Jolly Sr. Jazz Scholarship. She has played with the The Go Go Symphony, New World Jazz Orchestra, DMV Women’s Jazz Society, Grammy Award nominated Vocalist Carolyn Malachi, Artists against War, Shannon Gunn and the Bullets, The Fruition Experience, Musicians of Mercy and recently released her own EP “Love Takes Time” which is now playing on radio stations.

Bakhari Nokuri is an up and coming award winning percussionist and composer who attends Glenelg High School. He has studied with Mike Tomaro and Shenandoah Conservatory Professor Alphonso Young Jr.

Charmaine Michelle – Trumpet
Bakhari Nokuri – drums
Daryl Adams – Bass
Rachel Winder – Sax
Justin Taylor – Piano