Morgan James is a classically trained vocalist, Broadway veteran and recording artist. Morgan recently paid tribute to Judy Garland for her centennial, where she performed “Get Happy” with Sinfonia Gulf Coast and Nashville Symphony. 

Ms. James is a frequent symphony pops soloist, whose appearances include Ravinia, Philadelphia, Virginia, Wheeling, Cleveland Pops, Houston, Sun Valley Music Festival, American Pops Orchestra, Spokane, Detroit, Harrisburg, San Diego, Utah, Youngstown, Fort Meyers, Kansas City, Charlotte, Allentown, East Lansing, Atlanta, Colorado (and many more). 

On Broadway, Morgan has appeared in five Original Broadway Casts: Motown: The Musical, Godspell, Wonderland, The Addams Family and Kristin Chenoweth’s For The Girls. With viral sensation Postmodern Jukebox and her own channel, her videos on YouTube have garnered 300 million views (and counting). 

As a recording artist, Ms. James just released her fifth studio album of original soul music entitled “Nobody’s Fool”.  Her music is available on all streaming platforms. 

Morgan received her voice training at The Juilliard School.  For more information and tour dates, please visit morganjamesonline.com. 

Instagram: @morganajames

“A one-man compendium of avant Americana.” – The New Yorker

As a child of Memphis, TN, Doug Wamble has always been surrounded by a vast musical and cultural landscape. From listening to his mother play piano in their Baptist church to his grandfather singing cowboy songs, murder ballads and old time gospel favorites while strumming his guitar, Doug has been immersed in music for his entire life. After completing a Bachelors in Jazz Guitar from the University of North Florida and a Masters of Music from Northwestern, Doug decided to head to New York to seek a career as a guitarist and composer. Appearing on bandstands and recordings with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Steven Bernstein, Courtney Love, Madeleine Peyroux, and Cassandra Wilson, Doug was making a name for himself in the jazz world when he was signed to Branford Marsalis’ label, Marsalis Music/Rounder Records. Doug released two critically acclaimed records Country Libations and Bluestate, and two singer/songwriter albums on E1 records, Doug Wamble and Fast as Years, Slow As Days, the latter being on his own imprint, Halcyonic Records. In 2019, he released “9 for ’19” on BandCamp, which is a collection of music ranging from blues, to jazz standards, to original pop/R&b/soul songs, to richly orchestrated jazz compositions dating back from 1997 to the present. Building on his history with Wynton Marsalis, which led to guitar contributions to several Ken Burns documentaries for PBS such as Prohibition, The War and Unforgivable Blackness, Doug began working as a composer for Burns’ Florentine Films, collaborating with Ken, his daughter Sarah, and David McMahon for the tragic film The Central Park Five. Wamble contributed original score pieces for Burns’ Vietnam, Jackie Robinson, The Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts, and Eastlake Meadows. Doug has been the album producer and touring musical director/ guitarist for his wife, Morgan James, since 2012. Since 2016, Doug has been on faculty as an ensemble director and guitar instructor at The Juilliard School. 

John Scarpulla has toured, recorded and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the music business and has gained his reputation as an artist and performer both live and in the studio with Funk legends Tower of Power, Rock icons Billy Joel, Huey Lewis and the News, Hall & Oates, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, Pop superstars Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and Michael Bolton and Latin luminaries Willie Colon, Celia Cruz and so many more.  For the last 14 years John has been touring the world as the featured Soloist/Saxophonist, Musical Arranger and Contractor for the legendary Diana Ross and her band.  While doing all of this John held the lead Saxophone chair for the Tony Award winning and Grammy nominated Broadway show “Movin’ Out” penned by Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp and also for the most recent incarnation of “Grease-You’re the One That I Want” followed by “A Night with Janis Joplin”.  In April 2024 John will hold the Woodwind chair in the “Heart of Rock and Roll” opening on Broadway set to the music of Huey Lewis and the News featuring his talents playing all of those iconic Tenor Sax solos played by Johnny Colla. With his fellow “Movin’ Out” bandmate Michael Cavanaugh, John has toured the world and performed with the premier symphonies of North America from Boston to Los Angeles performing the music of “Billy Joel and More”.  He has served as Musical Director for numerous productions most recently for the prestigious Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards where he Conducted, Arranged, Orchestrated, Contracted and played Saxophone and is currently a 2024 nominee for the coveted “Hired Gun Award” in acknowledgement of his extensive career as a sideman…“in the trenches for an entire career built on not only being in the right place at the right time, which will happen, but also being a musician that is sought after by various artists spanning genres and styles and decades recording, touring, contracting, arranging, writing and producing with these artists.”