DOUG DUFFEY

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Doug Duffey is a member of the Louisana Music Hall of Fame and the National Blues Hall of Fame. His musical style blends New Orleans Jazz & Funk with his North Louisiana Mississippi Delta roots: Delta Blues, Louisiana Rock & Roll, along with Memphis Soul & Gospel.

Doug began singing and playing piano at an early age and was composing and performing professionally by age 14. He has been called “one of the most prolific songwriters living in Louisiana” & has released 9 critically acclaimed recordings of his songs.

He has written songs for & or recorded with George Clinton, Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Keith Richards, Herbie Hancock, David Byrne, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Anders Osborne, Little Queenie, Marcia Ball, Zakiya Hooker, Jerry Beach, John Autinand many others.
 

DANIEL SUMNER

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Daniel Sumner, the group's musical director and arrange, is an accompished guitarist and educator. His playing can be heard on more than a dozen recordings including the three critically acclaimed releases from the New Orleans based group Permagrin.

New Orleans was his home for 13 years during which he performed regularly in the clubs and led the jazz band at Lusher Charter School, an arts-based magnet school. He is the Assistant Professor of Music Education and Guitar at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Dan is a sponsored Benedetto Artist and plays a one-of-a-kind custom 16-B archtop jazz guitar hand-built by Bob Benedetto. He plays AER amplifiers and uses Thomastik-Infeld strings.