Lullabies from the September 2021 Lullaby Project

Lullabies from the March 2021 Lullaby Project

Lullabies from the June 2021 Lullaby Project

Lullabies from the Jan/Feb 2021 Lullaby Project

Camila Meza

Equally prized as a vocalist, guitarist and composer, Camila Meza has uplifted audiences worldwide with her assured and beautiful singing, highly advanced guitar (both self- accompaniment and blistering solo work), and vivid, melodic songwriting that reveals complex layers with every listen. She’s been hailed by The New York Times as “a bright young singer and guitarist with an ear for music of both folkloric and pop intention.” In May 2019 she released her fifth album, Ámbar, (Sony Music Masterworks), producing it herself and proudly introducing The Nectar Orchestra, an ensemble combining rhythm section and string quartet. Steeped in metaphor, romance and complex emotion, Ámbar is a breakthrough, rooted in the incredible agility and interplay of Camila’s state-of-the-art jazz group, peppered with American pop and Latin American music across eras and genres. Camila moved from Chile to New York at 23, graduating in 2013 from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she studied with Peter Bernstein, Vic Juris, Sam Yahel, Steve Cardenas and Gil Goldstein. She has appeared at festivals worldwide as well as NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and WBGO’s The Checkout, garnering praise from The Village Voice, The Wall St. Journal and many other outlets. Camila is a rising star in both the guitar and female vocal categories in the esteemed DownBeat Critics Poll. In 2018, Pat Metheny enlisted her to perform and act as musical director for his NEA JazzMasters induction ceremony at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Miranda Ferriss Jones

Vermont native Miranda Ferriss Jones is a composer, lyricist, teacher, and vocalist. She studied theatre at Yale University and is a thrilled participant in the esteemed BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Miranda has toured internationally as a singer and has been the recipient of multiple grants for her original musical works. Her show The Precipice is a five year musical collaboration with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and pianist Jeff Chimenti and was performed at San Francisco's Z Space theatre. Miranda is eagerly awaiting the premier of her two woman partially biographical musical, Showing Up, which had to be rescheduled when the pandemic hit. Miranda has spent the last three years working as a commissioned composer on a original new musical focused on sculpturessess Emma Stebbins and Edmonia Lewis. In addition to her work as a musical theatre writer, Miranda runs a busy private vocal studio in Montclair, NJ and spends time parenting her two beloved sons.

Emily Eagan

Emily Eagen is a versatile singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and teacher. She has lived in New York City since 2007, where she is a freelance performer and is completing a Doctorate in Voice at the CUNY Graduate Center. Emily sings with the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, toured for several years with singer Moira Smiley and her vocal quartet, and toured with the Bang on a Can All-Stars for their performances of Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer. Emily is a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall's community engagement programs, including the Lullaby Project for expectant and new mothers. Lullabies that Emily co-wrote can be heard on the Lullaby Project’s Album Hopes and Dreams (2018), sung by Roseanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, and Angélique Kidjo. She is the host and co-creator of Sing with Carnegie Hall, a video series for families which will be released in February 2021. Emily is a co-founder of Moving Star, a collaborative vocal lab in residence at Carnegie Hall, and co-wrote and performed in Nooma (2019), an opera for babies ages 0-2. Emily is a regular faculty member and Assistant Festival Director at the Amherst Early Music Festival (CT), and teaches at the Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn. Emily studied voice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, for which she received a Fulbright Fellowship. She has a special interest in studying and performing American vernacular music styles, in which she combines singing and her skills as a two-time International Whistling champion.

Monica Fimbrez

Monica Fimbrez is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.  She graduated from San Francisco State University with a bachelor’s in Vocal Jazz and World Music in 2006 and has been performing, writing, recording and teaching ever since. Over the last 14 years Monica has taught interactive music classes for children ages 0-5 through Music Together, in preschools, and at private gatherings. She writes songs for kids to sing in her classes, personalized songs for children, as well as original music and poetry that she performs under the name of Monica Maria. Monica recently released her first album in 2020 called “Nuevos Caminos.” It features original music and poetry and is a testament to her wide range of influences. She writes in both English and Spanish.  English is her native tongue, but she has become fluent in Spanish over the years through her dedication to Latin music, cultures and communities. 

Sarah Elizabeth Charles

Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist/composer based in New York City. She has released three critically acclaimed albums with her band, SCOPE since 2012 and her musical output has been described as a “genre of one” (DownBeat Magazine), “soulfully articulate” (The New York Times) and “an unmatched sound” (Jay Z’s Life+Times). As the vocalist in a number of bands, Charles has recorded numerous other albums and performed at many venues including The White House and Carnegie Hall. In addition to her performances and recordings, Charles is also an educator. She works as a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility and Future Music Project youth workshops, has a private lessons studio in New York City, is an adjunct professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music teaching a course she designed called "Jazz and Gender," and has developed an early childhood music education program with Rise2Shine, a non-profit organization based in Fond Parisien, Haiti. In 2019, she was one of five recipients of the Yale School of Music's Distinguished Teaching Artist Award. In 2020, she was selected to be one of five members of the Joe's Pub Working Group, was a recipient of the New York City Women's Fund grant in support of her band's fourth album to be released in 2021, and was a recipient of Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works grant.

Daniel Fabricant

Daniel Fabricant is one of the most versatile and in-demand bassists in San Francisco. Playing upright or electric, he can adapt to a wide range of musical settings, from intimate chamber groups to sprawling dance bands and Latin ensembles. Daniel has performed internationally with Piaf! The Show, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, Joan Rivers, Spencer Day, Ann Hampton Callaway, Petula Clark, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes, among others. In the Bay Area, he regularly performs with The Cosmo Alleycats, Rupa and the April Fishes, and Redwood Tango Ensemble. He has appeared at SFJAZZ, Monterey Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, Yoshi’s, The Freight and Salvage, and the Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko, and New York City venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Café Carlyle and The Algonquin. Daniel is also an accomplished music instructor, teaching guitar, bass and ukulele to students of all ages in private and group settings.