DRED “PERKY” SCOTT comes from a distinguished Harrisburg family. He has performed off and on beginning at age 11 as “Little Perky Wonder,” specializing in ‘James Brown’ with Curley and the Grand Prixs. He has played with numerous local groups such as the El Dantes (with Cedric Lawson) and the Emperors, a very notable Harrisburg group who had the hit record “Karate.”

Dred played with Cedric Lawson in Boston when Lawson attended Berklee College of Music. Dred played bass with Isaac Hayes for a summer in the early ’70s. He is widely acclaimed as one of the finest entertainers ever to come out of this area. He has honed his chops with every significant musician to come in and out of the area over the last 50 years—Sam Banks, Cedric Lawson, Steve Rudolph, Ronnie Waters, and Jimmy Wood to name a few. While attending law school in Pittsburgh, he gigged with Dr. Nathan Davis and the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Band. Dred worked with jazz greats Marcus Belgrade, Gerri Allen, Kenny Barron and Max Roach, Roger Humphries, Dwayne Dolphin, and John ‘Squirrel’ Mosley during that time. Dred was the architect of the “Jazz in the Sanctuary” series which was a very popular Jazz medium for many years in the area.

A call to the ministry moved Dred to a new level of expression. He continues to use the gifts God has given him in spreading His Word to the communities he serves. He embarked on a fully funded “Jazz in the Sanctuary” yearlong series in Baltimore MD beginning in mid-April 2001. The series continues and performs at various church venues throughout the region. In 2004 Dred released a Jazz standards CD Live at the Whittaker Center…NINE, with Steve Rudolph, Roger Humphries and Dwayne Dolphin. Dred offers a monthly “JESUS and Jazz” worship at the church which travels extensively throughout the Mid-Atlantic region at churches and other venues. For over 25 five years Dred has been MC and performer at the “World’s Greatest Jazz Festival,” the Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival, hosting an amazing array of the best smooth and contemporary jazz artist on the scene.

Dred recently co-authored his first book, Pittsburgh JESUS, available on Amazon and at all major booksellers.

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MATT MONTICCHIO is a musical improviser, a creative musical collaborator and teacher, a composer/pianist, and a church music director.

A graduate of West Chester University and Peabody Conservatory, where he earned degrees in piano, music education and music composition and loving and playing many types of music including Hip Hop, classical, jazz and music from cultures around the world, Matt draws from a diverse background of music and all these musical worlds inform and enrich his own. As a church music director, he formed Pageant Music, a collective of musicians and artists seeking to glorify God in their creative efforts. 

At Peabody Conservatory, Matt studied with Christopher Theofanidis while earning his Master’s degree in composition. Ron Thomas has been not only a teacher and musical-spiritual mentor, but a life-long friend. Ron, Matt and friend and fellow jazz pianist/composer David Thomas created the group Les 3 and began in the late ’90s producing concerts of new music. 

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A.J. MYERS is an in-demand trumpet, bass, and guitar player based in Central Pennsylvania. His newest project, Monkton, is a collective of musicians with AJ, Chris Loser, and Matt Monticchio providing the core rhythm section.

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JEFF STABLEY is a composer, studio jazz drummer, and percussionist. He is currently a professor and director of the Jazz and Percussion ensembles at York College of Pennsylvania and is the music director of the annual Jazz Vespers concert that honors Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Stabley has directed this concert for close to 20 years.

Stabley was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1961. He got his B.A. in Percussion at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and went on to teach in the York City School District until 1986. In 2013 Stabley was featured in a book titled Leg Up: The Courage to Dream. He lectured at Messiah College from 1997 until 2002, and became the Director of Contemporary Music at Zion Lutheran Church from 2002 until 2016.

Stabley has played with such notable musicians as Greg Kihn, Donnie and Marie Osmond, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Eddie Money, Arturo Sandoval, Tim Warfield, Kirk Reese, Steve Meashey, Skip Heller, Don Collins, Paul Carr, John Swana, Chris Bacas, Jimmy Wood, Don Carn, Steve Rudolph, Ronnie Waters and many others, including Stefon Harris, Terell Stafford, and Cyrus Chestnut. Locally, he plays with Kirk Reese, Tim Warfield, and Jim Wood.