About Carmani Edwards:

Carmani Edwards is a bassist and composer born and raised in Chicago. A lifelong creative, at 16 her focus shifted from visual arts to include music, taking up the electric bass in her high school jazz band and adopting the acoustic bass a year later. She graduated from DePaul University’s Jazz Studies Program in 2022, and has been sharing her sound around the city ever since, performing with various artists including Ernest Dawkins, Dee Alexander, Shanta Nurullah, Aliyah Jones, Dakarai Barclay, Anaiet Soul; with Intimacy Nite in Chicago; and with bands Family Junket and Alliance.

About Piage Brown:

Although a vocalist, pianist and composer herself, Paige Brown still sometimes lovingly refers to herself as “arts-adjacent.” As Dark Matter Residency Coordinator for Elastic Arts, and as a fan/friend of many in the robust Chicago arts ecosystem, she constantly finds herself in awe of the talent and adventurousness of the creatives she is privileged to witness and support.

While she more frequently positions herself contently in the audiences of arts performances and exhibitions, she is currently navigating a journey of strengthening the inner mechanisms and communal connections to deepen and externalize her own artistic practice more fully. She currently finds challenge in her quest to improve at the art of taking things slow, and in reacquainting herself with the simple, playful practices that attracted her to Music, her first love.

Brown is dedicated personally and professionally to helping cultivate joy, growth, and purposeful alignment for self and others in all contexts.