Melanie Charles is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, actress, and flutist of Haitian descent, with a creative fluidity spanning jazz, soul, experimental, and Haitian roots music. Charles’ indie release “The Girl with the Green shoes” and “Yall Dont Really Care Black Women” released under the Verve imprint established Charles as a progressive voice in Jazz gaining a handful of features in The New York Times, as well as The Village Voice. “You can hear her collaging her musical DNA into jazz-studded multi-instrumentalism and dipping a toe into the experimental… there’s an uncanny cohesion to Charles’ music.” – Village Voice. Charles graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with a BFA in vocal jazz performance and has worked with Herlin Riley, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jean Grae, SZA, the Gorillaz, Mark De-Clive Lo, Mach Hommy, Kassa Overall and many others. .Her television appearances include Good Morning America, SNL, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s Vinyl. Charles’ passion project “Make Jazz Trill Again” aims to blur the lines between social classes, cultures, genders, sounds and theories to create a world where opposing elements and eras can co-exist through the vehicle of improvised music, podcast conversation, music and event production and advocacy. Melanie is excited to be playing songs from her complete discography alongside her highly sought after band; Zacchaeus Paul on Keyboards and Vocals, Jonathan Michel on Bass, Rogers Charles on Sax w a surprise special guest!