CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Blues
• Country
• Folk

Folk, rockabilly, country

(Acoustic guitar, dulcimer, washboard)

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-5 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Solo, trio, quartet and quintet brass ensembles

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

1950s Cool cocktail jazz and swing. Playing the Great American Songbook.

Sax/Flute, Guitar, Bass

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo

Musical Styles:

• Bluegrass

Guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 7 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Dixieland

7-piece traditional Dixieland

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Blues
• Rockabilly

Blues, Rockabilly

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-6 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Traditional Ethnic

A traditional German polka and Oktoberfest band.

Band Facebook

Band Instagram

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Violins, viola and cello

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Winton began studying piano as a young boy while living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his youth was spent traveling through Latin America and the musical styles of those countries are at the core of his musical personality.
He has performed throughout the US, Canada, and China in a wide range of styles including Americana/folk music, Afro-Cuban jazz, Salsa, Bossa Nova and traditional jazz.
Winton performs regularly around Louisville, KY, with the Afro-Cuban band Hermanos, Brazilian jazz group Hora Certa, and the Salsa dance band Milenio. He can also be heard performing more traditional jazz in a variety of settings throughout the Louisville area.
Winton Reynolds has a doctoral degree in Composition and a masters degree in Jazz Studies, both from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, IN.

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Four Cellos

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

All string ensemble

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Two violins and cello

Band Website

Band Facebook

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Variety/Standards

Standards, torch songs and originals.

Band Instagram

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

String trio (Violin, viola and cello)

CMP Participant: Yes

• 4-6 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Dixieland

4-6 piece traditional Dixieland

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo

Musical Styles:

• Dixieland

Banjo, clarinet

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Dixieland

Sax, trumpet, guitar, tuba

CMP Participant: Yes

• 4-7 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classic Rock
• Top 40

Single or more (guitar with vocals – can add bass, drums and more to suit)

Band Facebook

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-6 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet
• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Trombone-led small group swing.

Available as a duo through sextet

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo

Musical Styles:

• Folk

Guitar and dulcimer

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Bluegrass

4 musicians (vocal, guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin)

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Blues
• Funk
• Jazz

Band Website

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Big Band

Musical Styles:

• Swing
• Big Band

Swing (17 musicians)

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Bluegrass
• Country
• Folk

Singer, songwriter and resophonic guitarist. A native of the Louisville, Kentucky area, Gibson first honed his skills on the Dobro and banjo as a member of several local groups in the Kentuckiana area during the early 1980s. Retiring from music for over a decade while he lived in Louisiana and Texas, Gibson resumed his picking as a reso player in 2001 after returning to Louisville in 1999.
Traveling across the USA, Canada and the Caribbean, Gibson has performed with award winning artists such as Dale Ann Bradley, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Tom Adams, Karl Shiflett, Marty Raybon and Charlie Sizemore.

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

Musical Styles:

• Booking/Event Agencies

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Jazz standards.

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-5 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles
• Easy Listening

Violin, viola, cello and harp (can add woodwinds)

Pop’, standards, show tunes and Celtic

Band Website

Band Facebook

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3-5 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Bluegrass

Instruments: Banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar

Band Website

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: Yes

• 4-6 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Jazz
• Funk

New Orleans style brass band performing traditional and contemporary brass band music as well as originals.

Band Website

Band Facebook

Band Instagram

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Big Band

Musical Styles:

• Classic Rock
• Top 40
• Jazz
• Big Band
• Swing
• Variety/Standards

High-energy party band covering classic-rock, Top-40, disco and more.

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classic Rock
• Top 40
• Variety/Standards

Hits from all eras; Tin-Pan Alley to Current Top-40 (drums, sax, bass, keyboard, vocals)

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Louisville native and Director of Music, John Austin Clark is an active piano/vocalist, conductor of both musical theatre and operatic genres, and performs regularly throughout the Louisville community in various venues. A trained practitioner of the Baroque, Mr. Clark founded and led Kentucky’s premiere Baroque orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, for sixteen seasons (2007-2023). He can be heard on the Naxos/Centaur label.

M.Mus. McGill University
B.Mus. Oberlin Conservatory

Band Website

Band Facebook

Band Instagram

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-6 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet
• Quintet
• Small ensemble
• Duo
• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Guitar, bass, mandolin, drums

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Solo Artist

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles
• Hip Hop
• Jazz

Jecorey Arthur is a teacher, musician, and activist from the West End of Louisville, KY. He has performed as a percussionist and vocalist around the world—from Switzerland’s Jungfrau Erzählfestival to Tennessee’s Big Ears Festival, Louisville’s Forecastle Festival, New York’s 92nd Street Y, and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. He is an endorsed artist with Salyers Percussion, an instructor at the Louisville Academy of Music, and an artist roster member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). His recording and composition work spans theatre, film, television, radio, podcasts, and studio albums, while his live performances include soloist appearances with professional orchestras in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Dayton, Indianapolis, Miami, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Petersburg, and Calgary (Canada). Notably, Arthur was the first hip-hop artist to perform with the Louisville Orchestra, premiering the folk opera The Way Forth and starring as Muhammad Ali in the rap opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali. Arthur’s unique performances follow the IMAN principles of being spiritually rooted, spatially relevant, and socially conscious. You can follow Arthur at @jecoreyarthur

Band Website

Band Facebook

Band Instagram

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Guitar, bass, drums

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3-16 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio
• Big Band

Musical Styles:

• Jazz
• Swing
• Big Band
• Variety/Standards

Piano, sax, bass or 12-16 piece big band.

Band Website

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Bluegrass
• Folk

Instruments: Banjo with traditional instrumentation

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

5 piece – saxophone, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Classical Ensembles

Classical Chamber music from Duo to Quartet.

Band Website

CMP Participant: Yes

• 4-5 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Jazz

Various Brass Ensembles

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Country
• Classic Rock

Original country/southern rock

Band Website

Band Facebook

CMP Participant: Yes

• 2-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• International – French & European popular songs

La Petite Music is a duo plus, featuring Dane Waters, vocals and Mike O’Bryan on accordion, plus other instruments when called for. French cabaret, German Schlager, bossa nova, swing tunes, and American songbook are our specialties.

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Easy Listening

Acoustic Guitar/Vocals (1-4 musicians)

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Small ensemble

Musical Styles:

• Traditional Ethnic

Klezmer and Jewish Music (6 Musicians)

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Traditional Ethnic

Klezmer Trio

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio

Musical Styles:

• Blues
• Classic Rock
• Top 40
• Variety/Standards
• Country
• Jazz
• Swing

All types of blues, classic-rock, 50s-60s, country, new-age rock, jazz and swing

Band Website

CMP Participant: No

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist

Musical Styles:

• Easy Listening

Solo guitar

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1-5 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist
• Duo
• Trio
• Quartet
• Quintet

Musical Styles:

• Americana

Memphis Beck is a veteran performer of stage, radio, television and recording. Memphis Beck leads a merry band that has travelled coast to coast performing at music festivals, art exhibits, fairs, clubs, farmers markets, house parties and celebrations of all kinds. Their unique versions of urban swing and rural rhythms are sure to bring a smile to your face and get your toes a’ tapping.

Band YouTube

CMP Participant: Yes

• 3-4 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Trio
• Quartet

Musical Styles:

• Easy Listening
• Variety/Standards

Light-jazz and standards Guitar, bass, drums. Can add vocals.

CMP Participant: Yes

• 1 Musicians

CMP Information

Ensemble Type(s):

• Solo Artist

Musical Styles:

• Traditional Ethnic

Accordion: Italian, French, German, Irish, Klezmer

Band Website

Band YouTube