Describing the musical partnership of Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini as a duo is accurate, but their collaboration contains multitudes. She’s a trombonist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco. He’s a composer, guitarist, and singer from Brasilia. Together they’ve honed a singularly expansive creative communion encompassing their love of the Brazilian songbook, jazz, Impressionism and sophisticated pop songcraft.

Their original material features lyrics in Portuguese, French and English set to music drawing from a vast stylistic spectrum. With sumptuous two-part vocal harmonies hugging Brazilian-accented Portuguese accompanied by trombone and acoustic guitar, Cressman and Faquini’s richly orchestrated sound seems to emanate from a much larger ensemble.

Lena Clav is a producer and singer-songwriter from St. Louis whose music weaves together jazz, digital soundscapes, and R&B. Her performances blend self-produced tracks with live keyboard and vocal arrangements to create a richly layered immersive experience. She has been featured at music festivals, including the 2024 Laz Jazz Festival and the 2025 True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri. This spring, Lena has collaborated on a joint release, ‘ Juno / Lie To Me’ with fellow St. Louis artist and award-winning producer K Kudda Muzic. Lena invites her listeners to embrace a more playful, sentimental, and grounded version of themselves.