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Adriana Bio:

Adriana Wagner is an emerging trombonist, bandleader, educator, and composer based in Portland, Oregon. Wagner earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at Portland State University, studying with George Colligan and Darrell Grant. 

Adriana formed her quartet in 2022 and has performed at the Portland Literary Arts Festival with PDX Jazz (2022), PDX Jazz Festival (2023), Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival (2023), Creative Music Guild Festival (2023), Seaside Jazz and Blues (2024) Festival, Montavilla Jazz Festival (2024), and Portland’s most popular jazz clubs like The 1905, and the Jack London Revue. She formed her quartet in 2022 performing entirely her original compositions. Her originals invite the listener on a visual storytelling journey through captivating melodies that can resonate above or become immersed within the composition’s harmonic structures. The compositions are written from perspectives of heartbreak, struggle, beauty, and resilience. Influenced by many different music genres, she weaves styles together under a distinct jazz banner.

Wagner was recently named one of the inaugural recipients of the Music Oregon Echo Fund grant to help create her debut album. Her album “She Sleeps, She Wakes” was released on PJCE Records featuring her original compositions. The album was featured on Best Jazz on Bandcamp 2024.

She has worked with Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Pleasure, George Colligan, Randy Porter, Domo Branch, Wayne Horvitz, Dolphin Hyperspace, Nicole McCabe, Brown Branch Big Band, Pleasure, PDX Jazz Presents: The American Refrain, Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Cambalache Orquestra and Pura Vida Orchestra, Reb & The Good News, Night Heron, Lily Sheers, and March Fourth.

Charlie Bio:

 

Musical director, producer, and keyboardist, Charlie Brown III is a creative whose skillset varies across the board. With a background in Jazz and Church, Brown tales Piano/Keyboards by a genre less storm. Brown gained wider prominence after producing for and sharpening his production skills with Portland-Born Rapper Aminé. Brown has been collaborating and touring internationally with bass-phenom MonoNeon, and producing and performing with dozens acts around the states, including projects of his very own. Always looking to push the envelope and boundaries of our music, Brown does so through his unique ability to create worlds of creation spontaneously and on the spot.