Gwen Thompson

Host of Music Inside Out

Michael Pellera

Jazz

Chair, Jazz: Assistant Chair, Jazz Piano and Composition

Gregg Stafford

Trumpet

Detroit Brooks

Banjo

Detroit Brooks, famed session and touring guitarist of the New Orleans music scene, has the most recognizable face in the city.

Hot 8 Brass Band

Band

"The play the music that makes you glad to be alive" - ESQUIRE

Don Vappie

Banjo

Don Vappie is a world renown jazz musician and presenter from New Orleans. He leads the Creole Jazz Serenaders, a classic New Orleans jazz orchestra, as well as his various jazz and R&B combos.