Sheila Ford

SHEILA FORD & LOWELL HOPPER Blues and soul with a twist of jazz.

SHEILA FORD

The fabulous Sheila Ford has dazzled audiences for several decades, in nearly every musical style--blues, funk, R&B, pop, rock, latin, rap, big band, jazz, as well as musical theater. Over the past few years, Sheila has been headlining on various cruise ships featuring her show, “The Tina Turner Experience”. Sheila has over 100 recordings including her own CD, “Here You Are.” A Baltimore native and a Berklee College of music alumni, she has performed at numerous venues and festivals all over the globe.

LOWELL HOPPER

For over 30 years, soulful guitarist Lowell Hopper has charmed audiences around the world with original compositions to marvelous renditions of classics, tender ballads, transcendent instrumentals, and hard hitting renditions of R&B and jazz classics. Growing up in Virginia, Lowell was introduced to music at an early age as he would often listen to his father play the acoustic guitar and sing around their house. Lowell began playing guitar at age 6, and was playing guitar and bass in R&B and blues bands in night clubs by age 15.

After college, Lowell joined the U.S. Air Force during when he was inspired to start writing and producing his own music. Throughout Lowell’s twenty-year Air Force career, he performed and recorded with numerous jazz artists in Germany, Panama Canal, and Florida. Lowell has released 24 albums as a leader, most of which are played frequently on contemporary jazz stations across the world.