brandon woody & troy long perform “silent night”…enjoy!

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More about Brandon:

Brandon Woody was referred to as one of the top upcoming young performing artist in the region by the Baltimore Sun in 2015. He started playing the trumpet 12 years ago. He grew up in east Baltimore and attended several cultural programs around the city at a very young age like the Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Peabody preparatory, Morgan state summer camps, Leith Walk band program. Brandon Woody is an alumni of the Baltimore School for the Arts. He started his own band named UPENDO in the year of 2015, and has been performing all over the east and west coast and internationally since then. After attending the Brubeck Institute, Brandon was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Manhattan School of Music. He has studied with Cecile Bridgewater, Ambrose Akinmusire and his mentor Theljon Allen, performed with with artists such as Quincy Phillips and Ray Angry, and has performed at venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center Appel Room, The Meyerhoff, Smalls Jazz Club, The Lyric Opera House, Sydney Opera House and Monterey Jazz Festival. Brandon has played with and recorded on projects all over the east coast, including Miranda Curtis, Sophie Marks and Solange (he is a new member of Solange’s band). Brandon taught at the New Jersey Performance Arts Center, Highlandtown Elementary and co-led the first Peabody creative improvisation summer camp in 2018. Brandon has been curating several shows in Baltimore in the effort to simply bring people together that might not always get the chance to be together. Brandon recently moved back to Baltimore and started working on his album, which has a planned release of 2021.