International Performing Artist | Educator

Shenel Johns continuously strives to push her limits and range in formidable and renowned venues and festivals including Museum of Modern Art, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Blue Note Jazz Club in her home away from home, New York City where she collaborates with the today’s musical pioneers to fuse traditional Gospel, Jazz and diasporic idioms. Most recently Johns’ debuted with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, for their return performance to the Rose Theater Stage in “Songs of Freedom” and was featured on a 50 city tour under the same moniker to share the “Songs We Love” with jazz enthusiasts across the nation.