KATHY CHIAVOLA at NOAH Banquet on May 12! Kathy Chiavola is an internationally renowned singer songwriter and guitarist best known for bluegrass and country music. She has released four critically acclaimed albums and been featured on A Prairie Home Companion and NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered. She has recorded with hundreds of artists including Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, Bill Monroe, John Hartford, John Oats, Ricky Skaggs,Tammy Wynette,Tony Rice,Vince Gill, Kenny Rogers,Victor Wooten and Mark O’Connor. She was named “Outstanding Background Vocalist” in the Nashville Music Awards, 1995. She maintains a private voice studio and has been an adjunct voice instructor at Belmont University for over twenty years.

ODESSA SETTLES at NOAH Banquet on May 12!

Odessa Settles, born and raised in Nashville TN, the only sister of eight, has been on stage most of her life thanks to her singing father. Odessa has served as a multi-genre artist referral entity in Nashville for many years in the areas of vocal and instrumental music, acting, modeling, spoken word, recording projects and short films. Odessa considers herself a folk singer and novice songwriter, a lover of ukuleles and anything she can beat on (percussions, sticks, paddles, cans, buckets, tambourines, etc.). Her gifted mission in life is to minister to the sick, listen, learn, bridge gaps, sing, record, and perform with as many people possible, and teach to others the great lessons she has learned from those who have allowed her to share their space.

Odessa is a founding member of The Princely Players, an A cappella music and drama group well-known throughout the country who chronicles African American history from mid 19th Century through today via staged productions. Odessa is the coordinator and manager of the Nashville Symphony Let Freedom Sing Celebration Chorus who come together yearly to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Odessa is currently collaborating with Roy “Futureman” Wooten on the Black Mozart Project, which chronicles the life of Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de St. George.