Huntertones is a dynamic, horn-driven band blending jazz, funk, and soul with a sharp, contemporary edge. With a signature three-horn frontline, bold arrangements, and an irresistible sense of groove, they’ve earned a reputation for high-energy performances that feel both deeply musical and wildly fun. Their collaborative spirit has led them to work with artists like Lake Street Dive, SuperBlue: Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, O.A.R., and Cory Wong, while touring stages around the world. 

Every Huntertones show is vibrant, rhythmic, and fueled by the band’s unmistakable blend of creativity, connection, and adventurous improvisation. 

“When feeling and technique come together it’s like Swan Lake. Huntertones, y’all are like ballerinas!” –Audiotree 

“Soulful, tasty and groovy. I dare you not to dance or be in a good mood during and after listening to this beautiful music” –Lionel Loueke 

“Music and community at the highest level!” – Louis Cato 

Cécile is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The Late Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.” Cécile has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. She is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. Salvant won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010. Cécile has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, “The Window,” “Dreams and Daggers,” and “For One To Love,” and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album “WomanChild.” In 2020, she received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. “Ghost Song”, her debut for Nonesuch Records, was released in March 2022 to critical acclaim, and has gone on to receive two Grammy Nominations. 

Cécile’s latest work, Ogresse, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends genres (folk, baroque, jazz, country). Salvant wrote the story, lyrics, and music. It is arranged by Darcy James Argue for a thirteen-piece orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. Ogresse, both a biomythography and an homage to the Erzulie (as painted by Gerard Fortune) a d Sara Baartman, explores fetishism, hunger, diaspora, cycles of appropriation, lies, othering, and ecology. It is in development to become an animated feature-length film, which she will direct. 

Andrew is a Grammy-Award winning cellist praised by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph as “spellbindingly virtuosic”. Trained at the Juilliard School, they are a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet who have released several albums to Critical acclaim including Andrew’s arrangement of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” which Thewholenote.com praised as “ . . .easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.” They were the quartet-in-residence at the Met Museum in 2014, and have won the Osaka and Coleman international string quartet competitions. Their newest recording of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw won a GRAMMY for best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance. As a soloist last season Andrew performed John Taverner’s The Protecting Veil and Strauss Don Quixote. In 2019 they won the first prize at Oklahoma University’s National Arts Incubation Lab for their pitch of a wearable garment that translates sound into vibrations for the hard of hearing. They like to make stop-motion videos of food, draw apples, cook like an Italian Grandma and have developed coffee and cocktail programs for award-winning restaurants (Lilia, Risbobk, Atla) in New York City. 

Their solo project “Halfie” draws on their experience as a bi-racial and non-binary person in having access to multiple communities at once, while not feeling at home in any of them.  

 They play on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation. 

Caleb is widely regarded as a leading performer, choreographer, director, musical collaborator, and curator of musically-driven dance and interdisciplinary collaboration. 
 
A two-time Bessie Award winner (and five-time nominee), their work in concert dance and music has played some of the most prestigious venues in North America including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, New York City Center, Carnegie Hall, the Joyce Theater, and countless others. They’ve performed duets with Regina Spektor and Ben Folds on Broadway, television, and on music albums. They’ve graced the cover of Dance Magazine, and they’re the only dancer to be featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. 

Many shows created by Caleb (SW!NG OUT, Counterpoint, Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss, B-Z-Z-Z) regularly tour performing arts centers in North America – their work will be presented in over twenty cities this year. 

Led by Latin Grammy-nominated accordionist, pianist and composer Sam Reider, The Human Hands is a collective of innovative acoustic musicians working at the confluence of American folk, jazz and chamber music. Irresistible melodies, joyful improvisation and otherworldly sounds collide in what Songlines Magazine dubbed a “mash-up of the Klezmatics, Quintette du Hot Club de France and the Punch Brothers.” The Human Hands have toured throughout the US, UK, and Europe at venues like Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections Festival, Savannah Music Festival, Strawberry Music Festival and SFJAZZ and they’ve been featured on NPR, PBS and the BBC.  

Their latest record, The Golem and Other Tales, is anchored by a suite inspired by a medieval Jewish folktale about a man-made creature, the limits of human power and the relationship between divine and human creativity. The Human Hands features some of the brightest lights in acoustic music today: violinist Alex Hargreaves (Billy Strings), mandolinist Dominick Leslie (Molly Tuttle), cellist Duncan Wickel (Rising Appalachia), saxophonist Eddie Barbash (Jon Batiste), guitarist Roy Williams (Stephane Wrembel), and bassist Andrew Ryan (Kaïa Kater). The album features “The Golem” suite alongside five other compositions with echoes of Django Reinhardt, Planxty, Duke Ellington and Astor Piazzolla.  

Originally trained as a jazz pianist, Reider has spent his career composing original music and collaborating with a dizzying range of roots, jazz and classical artists like Jon Batiste, Jorge Glem, Sierra Hull, Laurie Lewis, Gaby Moreno and Paquito d’Rivera. Reider’s solo piano record Petricho, garnered a four-star review in Downbeat Magazine and made their Best of 2022 list. Reider and Glem’s collaborative album Brooklyn-Cumaná was featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk and was nominated for Best Instrumental Album at the 2023 Latin GRAMMY Awards. Beyond performing, Reider is a prolific composer and has worked with a variety of chamber ensembles and artists ranging from the Bay Area’s Del Sol Quartet to the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark.  

Considered the world’s premier Native American flutist, RC holds the distinction of being the only American Native performer performing in the Indigenous genre to have a Platinum Record-Canyon Trilogy- with over one million sold. He serves as an effective ambassador in reaching new concert audiences consistently drawing capacity or near capacity houses. RC has a successful career in many genres of music. He is an eleven-time Grammy® nominee who has many fans who follow him into the concert hall. Nakai’s recordings have reached listeners worldwide and have been used in films, documentaries, and therapeutic contexts. 

RC’s approach to the Native American flute is both innovative and respectful. Rather than simply replicating traditional songs, he has expanded the instrument’s expressive possibilities. Through new fingering techniques, extended melodies, and harmonics, he blends the flute’s haunting tones with elements of jazz, classical, and world music. He also composes original works for flute integrating influences from his heritage with contemporary sensibilities. His music carries a universal message of peace, healing, and connection to the land. Through his music and public work, he urges others to recognize the wisdom embedded in Indigenous traditions. 

Natalie is one of the most sought-after cellists playing traditional music today. Credited with putting cello on the map of contemporary Celtic music, she brings a wealth of world influences to her instrument, fashioning a tone and rhythmic sense that transcends any single tradition. Along with her longtime collaborator Alasdair Fraser, with whom she has toured for over 26 years and released seven albums, Natalie has charted a new course through the string music of Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and beyond—all without losing the influence of classical technique or her American roots. She and her fiddling sister Brittany Haas (Hawktail, Punch Brothers, Crooked Still, the Dave Rawlings Machine) have also released an album together and have also been touring as a duo for the last several years in Europe, Australia and the US. Natalie continues to be in high demand as a studio musician and has been a guest artist on over 100 albums, including those of Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, Irish greats Altan, Solas, and Liz Carroll, and Americana icon Dirk Powell. Through her skills as an educator, Natalie has inspired a whole new generation of young cellists in folk music at fiddle camps across the globe.

Jesús Enrique “Chuchi” is a reference for the contemporary folk guitar in Spain. For over 20 years, Chuchi’s versatility and style have made him one of the most in-demand guitarists in the Iberian Peninsula for folk music. He is co-founder of the bands Vallarna, the Buho Dinámico duo with bouzoukist Carlos Martín Aires, award-winning fiddle & guitar duo Blanca Altable & Chuchi2, 22 Cuerdas, Atlantic Folk Trio, and duo Kornoj with Galician singer & percussionist Xela Confer. In his capacity as composer/arranger, Chuchi has also worked with Folkfussion, A Gramalleira, Celtas Cortos, Xerfa, María Salgado, Sons d’Cabiella, and Galician pipe virtuoso Anxo Lorenzo. He currently plays with Muyayos de Raiz, Xosé Liz’s Indala band, and piper Germán Ruíz. He is also in demand as a teacher at music camps and workshops around the world.