About the Artists
Pamela Sneed is a poet, performer, and visual artist. Among her four volumes of poetry is Funeral Diva, which was widely featured, and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. She has been published in The Paris Review, Frieze magazine, Artforum, and the Academy of American Poets. Her visual work was featured in the group show Omniscient (2021–22) at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York. She performed the music of Big Mama Thornton, as part of the Juke Joint at the Park Avenue Armory, in March of this year.
Mazz Swift is a composer, conductor, bandleader, educator, singer, and Juilliard-trained violinist, weaving classical African American music, electronica, and improvisation across genres and instrumental configurations into their music. They are a 2019 Jerome Hill Fellow and 2021 United States Artist Fellow. Works include commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2020), the International Contemporary Ensemble (2023), the Silkroad Ensemble (2021, 2022, 2023), and the Kronos Quartet (2022, 2024).
Natalie Greffel is a composer, singer, bass player, and music producer. The songs on her debut album, Para Todos are inspired by her African heritage, mixed with Afro-Brazilian music. Most recently, she won the 2023 Deutscher Jazzpreis in jazz vocals and is finished her Master’s at Wesleyan University. She has recorded with Angel Bat Dawid, New Past, Radio Citizen, Onom Agemo and Disco Jumpers, Kelvin Sholar, and Karl Hector and the Malcouns. She is the curator of the Xjazz Festival, in Berlin, Germany.
