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Happy 10 years to A Seat at The Table!

I joined the team as Solange’s assistant 90 days (thanks to a four hour coffee with @onvacation 😂) before its release and the rest is literal history.

So many life long memories and relationships are tied to this album. traveling across the South to shoot the visuals, dreamy magazine and press shoots, touring at festivals + art institutions all around the world, winning Grammys, throwing and hosting lots of parties, dancing with Mrs Obama at their WH farewell party (peak!!), & countless more.

Forever grateful for this team who gave me my first experience as a producer (before I even knew all it entailed) and many lessons along the way.

Love you forever ASATT ❤️

somewhere in New Mexico ?

my iPhone 8 put in work

Questlove did his big one. & yes I snuck my phone in. & yes we recorded a video to “n*ggas we made it”

are you even tired if you’ve never made a music video

@solangefranklin painting tabis in Marfa

❤️🔴❤️

the making of best friends @asia.hyppolite ✨

our usual

trendsetter

delirious but also learning the words?

in all climates

Guggenheim show has my heart

SNL

I love NY

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post Hollywood Bowl

assistants also double as talent

dived for the culture. thankgyaaaa

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Just wrapped the first production of @wakemanmusical at @nlbarn in New Hampshire. A very cool new show about the real life Rosetta Wakeman (google it!).

Book, music and lyrics by @jenngrinels Directed by @billieakentyers MD @petestraydogs Choreo @michaelfatica

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What a pleasure it was to retreat up to New Hampshire for the past 10 days and play Trumpet/Keys for @wakemanmusical at the @nlbarn ! If you don’t know the story of Rosetta Wakeman it’s very very fascinating and I highly recommend checking it out!!

Thank to @petestraydogs for including me in this awesome crew of people!!

#wakeband

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One for the books! AMD debut with @wakemanmusical — what a whirlwind past couple weeks. Thank you @nlbarn for supporting new work and @jenngrinels @petestraydogs @lilydorment for your incredible trust and collaboration. 🫡🫶🏼

The Wakeman family has two daddys

@reese.cameron23 a force of nature with their soldiers in battle

Last min orchestration adjustments with @jenngrinels

Band at the Fleming!

Guitar/conducting…

Post-goat ice cream with the goat 🐐💕

Family portrait!

First band rehearsal!

Team MUSIC

Add it to my title: Vibe Captain

Stumbling thru and multitasking, as usual!

These digs weren’t too shabby, either… 😍

cows

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Concert Reflections: National Symphony Orchestra, June 2026

Kellen Gray on his NSO subscription classics debut 🎼:

“With every program you aim to create something special and lasting; but this recent program with the National Symphony Orchestra holds profound personal importance for me.

Beyond the NSO’s place amongst the pantheon of the nation’s ensembles, it is an organization that truly invested in my growth and has become a musical family. Through years of conducting community programs, invaluable mentorship from Music Director Gianandrea Noseda, shared ideas with the staff, and personal friendships, this organization has embraced me. To be entrusted with a subscription program, share the stage with musicians I so admire, and again collaborate with the incredible Michelle Cann, is an honor that is difficult to describe.

Also, the significance of this specific program at this specific moment of the NSO and Kennedy Center’s history, is also not lost on me. I don’t believe it to be accidental or incidental that Dvořák’s Suite in A major - a set of miniatures based on European folk dances - is named The American. I truly believe that even in 1894, Dvořák was making a statement about what it means to be American: all are welcome, and all have claim.”

5-6 June 2026, Transatlantic Rhythms 🎵
National Symphony Orchestra ( @natsymphonydc )
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington DC, USA
Michelle Cann, piano
Kellen Gray, conductor

Program🪉
Antonín Dvořák: Suite in A-major “American”
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Darius Milhaud: La Création du monde
Charles Lumar II: Elaine Eclipse
George Gershwin: Catfish Row

#music #orchestra #symphony #kellengray #concert
📸: @scottsuchman

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buddies

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Still trying to catch up but here’s a little more Eugene Onegin and a whole lotta partying at @theatresquared 🎻 ✨
📸 Production photos by @wesley_hitt_photography
🎥 Video by @rachel.chavkin

#eugeneonegin #bluegrass #musical #theatresquared #fayetteville

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happy birthday to our tender-hearted, angel-eyed charles 💫💫💫 i love you forever, baby! 🦀 @stringsfallapart 🦀

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a very special rendition of @peoplemuseumband’s ‘Madman’ featuring me (🎹) and @oceanboyfriend at @musicbox.village during the April album release show for ‘Dusk, a ballet’. I am so lucky to get to help bring such incredible music to life

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two new tracks out now <3

a / doe a dear
b / participation trophy wife (Phipps Remix)

special thanks to @megsterslab @stringsfallapart for making this gorgeous @jeremyphipps_ remix come to life in a whole big way. and to our very favorite @exactinverse for breathing upon doe, iykyk. and to @shawnhatfieldmastering for mastering.

stream them everywhereeee

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Update: event cancelled! Go see Charles at Theatre Squared 💯

This Sunday, Charles and Catherine are coming together as Controfferta, a summer duo playing to the bounty of summer. A little about them:

Charles Lumar II is a composer, musician, teacher and explorer currently on a project in Northwest Arkansas for “Eugene Onegin - A Bluegrass Musical.” He expresses himself in whatever medium seems up to the task but can primarily be found playing a double bass, an electric bass or a tuba.

Charles has had works premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in addition to performing and recording with People Museum, Solange and Kristin Diable (to name a few). He has also toured the world playing shows at notable venues including the Kennedy Center, Radio City Music Hall, the Guggenheim, The Getty Museum, Glastonbury Festival and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

When not creating or performing music, Charles enjoys making visual art and matching his music to compelling images and videos. Charles was recently selected as a composer for Castle of Our Skins’ Black Composer Miniature Challenge 2.0 in addition to being accepted into residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vashon Artist Residency, and The League of Stars Astro-Retreat and Art-Residency.

Charles is inspired by the stars, birds singing, and his mother, Elaine.

Catherine is a classically trained vocalist and composer with over ten years of piano experience and a background in musical theatre and stage performance. She has appeared in productions of Les Misérables and Into the Woods, and has composed and released multiple original piano works that have been performed live. Deeply inspired by the natural world and all living things, Catherine draws creativity from the beauty and complexity of the world around her—and is probably in a forest somewhere.

They’re writing music just for this dinner, come experience it 💫

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Does this feel like summer?

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See Controfferta June 14th ~ tickets in bio

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