Honey Conaway is a soul singer whose first album, Staircases, won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues performance nearly twenty years ago. We met at Dooby's, a Baltimore coffee shop just around the corner from the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she is a teaching artist. She arrived flustered, but clearly invigorated by her students. Read the Interview
Wunderkind Savion Kimberman started strong emerging from the Baltimore School for the Arts in the 1990s, but it took him a while to find his footing in the jazz world. He performed with the Herbie Hancock orchestra as a teenager and performed sessions with Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Abbey Lincoln, and Danilo Perez, among others. In 2012, his life in disarray, he checked himself into a Buddhist meditation center and lived there for four years... Read the Interview
Lulu Harper grew up beneath her mother's bright star. She had some trouble adjusting to Sian Harper's fame, but Sian's troubles with her own fame are legendary. I caught up with Lulu in Huntsville at Tee's Place and we talked between sets where thirteen-year old Nala Washington, one of Honey Conaway's Baltimore proteges, honed her craft. Read the Interview
