Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Singer, songwriter, model, and actress

Airlift Project: Music Box Roving Village: City Park

Location: New York/Brazil

Practice: Guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer

Airlift Project: Music Box Roving Village: City Park

Jonn Hankins is the Founder and CEO of the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild. He previously held the positions of Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum, Development Director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation, and Principal Development Officer for Corporate and Community Affairs at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). At NOMA, he directed, “Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans,” an award winning exhibition and oral history research project that documented two centuries of families of master craftsmen who built and still maintain New Orleans’ unique architecture. Mr. Hankins has advocated for and lectured to apprentice trainees on the need to revive traditional building trade skills in a post-Katrina New Orleans beset by what has been described as “a lack of traditional building skills in the local population and a low quality of rebuilding that threatened New Orleans’ character” by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Foundation for Building Community. 

Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Singer in Tank and the Bangas

Airlift project: Music Box Roving Village at City Park

Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Drummer for Sweet Crude

Airlift Project: Music Box Roving Village at City Park

Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Sculpture, fabrication, anything that needs to made ever

Airlift Project: Roving Village Residency

Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Musicians and inventor

Airlift project: Roving Village City Park

Location: New Orleans, LA

Practice: Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from a variety of sources, whether it is her Haitian heritage, living in New Orleans or dancing at Cajun Mardi Gras. Leyla, a multi-instrumentalist, is a cellist and singer whose distinctive sound is impossible to replicate.

Airlift Project: The Music Box Roving Village City Park

Website: http://leylamccalla.com

Location: New York, NY

Practice: An Americanjazzpianist, composer and instrument builder/designer

Airlift Project: The Music Box Roving Village City Park

Website: http://www.hopscotchrecords.com/cooper-moore.html

Location: New York, NY

Practice: Composer, Conductor, Multi-instrumentalist, Jazz legend

Project: The Music Box Roving Village at City Park- Conductor

Website: http://williamparker.net