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First Annual Duck Jazz Festival

Band Biographies

The Jimmy Bruno Trio – The Jimmy Bruno Trio will headline this year’s Duck Jazz Festival. Jimmy Bruno is a world-renowned jazz guitarist playing from within the tradition of straight-ahead jazz while taking the guitar to a new technical level. Jimmy and his bandmates have been playing jazz for over two decades and hail from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jimmy Bruno is coming off the successful release of his new CD, “ Maplewood Avenue” and the launching of his on-line guitar training institute.

Jimmy Bruno

The Fuzz Band – The Fuzz Band is an eight-piece band which fuses soul, jazz, classical music, hip hop, and rock. The Fuzz Band comes to the Duck Jazz Festival Stage from Hampton, Virginia. Comprised of classically-trained instrumentalists, as well as accomplished jazz musicians, The Fuzz Band was named the Best New Contemporary Jazz Band in 2005 at The Capital Music Festival. The Fuzz Band has performed with Grammy award winning artists such as Alicia Keys, Outkast, and Lauryn Hill.

The Fuzz Band

Laura Martier and The John Toomey Quartet – Laura Martier is well-known on the east coast for her jazzy vocals which draw on a rich tapestry of musical influences. When combined with the instrumentation of The John Toomey Quartet of Virginia Beach, the result is straight-ahead jazz. John Toomey is a Jazz Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and has served as music director and pianist for jazz trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson.

Laura Martier

Ruth Wyand -- Ruth Wyand is a local Outer Banks musician who plays folk, blues, jazz, country, swing, ragtime, and Americana music. She has played to audiences world-wide. Ruth Wyand won the 2006 Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at the Gambel Rogers Folk Festival in St. Augustine, FL; and she is the first woman ever to do so.

Ruth Wyand

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