MUSIC

Jonathan Moody, Music Director,  currently navigates between jazz-fusion sextet ASPHALT, Kalamazoo-based cover band KiND, Music Director at Unity of Kalamazoo as well as pit musician in the SW Michigan theatre scene. He brings a strong foundation and genre authenticity to each and every gig.  At home in Kalamazoo, MI, Jon is a dad, coffee and taco enthusiast and occasional cartoonist/illustrator.   www.justmoody.com

Elizabeth Case, Choir Director, is also program manager for Next Level Leaders in the Center for Sustainable Business Practices at Western Michigan University’s Hawthorn College of Business.  She spent 10 years in the public school system teaching middle and high school choir.  Prior to UWM, she worked in nonprofit leadership roles as piano lab coordinator at the Gilmore Piano Festival and executive director of Camp Wakeshma. 

Carolyn Koebel, Percussionist, has been exploring rhythm and vibration for the past 30 years. Her early studies are rooted in the Western traditions, while the past 18 years have found her slowly traversing the globe in search of indigenous music and traditional rhythmic materials from Latin & South America, West Africa and the Middle East, and all points in-between. The result is a compelling recombination in a musical palette that compliments a variety of styles and genres in groups from Fonn Mor & An Dro to Dunuya Drum & Dance, Blue Dahlia, and a host of singer-songwriters and traditional musical ensembles throughout the region. She leads the Japanese taiko drumming program at Kalamazoo College.