Friday March 8 * 8pm at Brentwood Arts Exchange (3901 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD) * $20 * TICKETS

We’re happy to partner with the Listening Room Series at Brentwood Arts Exchange to present two of Rhizome’s favorite creative musicians….

Jamal R. Moore, a native of Baltimore, is a multiinstrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. He is an affiliate of the late Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikans People Arkestra, member of Baltimore-based Konjur Collective (led by Bashi Rose), and co-creator of Ancestral Duo (with Luke Stewart). Jamal currently leads his own groups, Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Strings, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, and Mojuba Duo.

Janel Leppin has been a pillar of Washington, D.C.’s creative music and jazz community for over 20 years, as a cellist, composer, arranger, bassist, and singer. She has performed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and at many international festivals worldwide including the High Zero Festival, the Swedish Women in Jazz Festival, DC Jazz Festival, and Washington Women in Jazz Festival.