JEANNIE TANNER

Jeannie Tanner is an award winning composer with 8 Grammy-considered albums and 5 ASCAP composer awards. She is a singer-songwriter, vocalist, piano player, trumpeter, percussionist and producer who performs and re-cords her original music: a mix of pop, jazz, R&B and Latin rhythms. Jeannie’s music has been used for many television shows including Single Ladies (VH1 – produced by Queen Latifah), Bong Zombies (Amazon Prime), Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Netflix), Culinary Travels with Dave Eckert (PBS/The Travel Channel), Revenge (ABC), Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo), Fox NFL Kickoff, The Young & the Restless (CBS) and Days of Our Lives (NBC).

Her music has been featured in many movies including A Christmas Duet (Hallmark), Christmas Cookies (Hallmark), Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas (Hallmark), Doomsday Mom (Lifetime) and Christmas in the Air (Hallmark) — as well as Indie films Blame It On Toby (starring Kevin J. O’Connor) and Scrooge and Marley (starring David Pevsner, Tim Kazurinsky and Rusty Schwimmer).

As a performer, Ms. Tanner has headlined at top Chicago area venues/festivals performing with her groups 3 Martini Jeannie (3MJ) and the Jeannie Tanner Quartet — including City Winery, Northhalsted Market Days, Midsommarfest, Back Lot Bash, Porch Fest, Taste of Chicago, Winter’s Jazz Club, Andy’s Jazz Club, the Park West, Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, Ottawa 2 Rivers Wine and Jazz Festival, Pete Miller’s, Eddie V’s, Reggies, Davenport’s, the Highwood Music Festival, the Redhead Music Festival and the Arts Clubs of Chicago. Ms. Tanner also performs solo (playing piano and singing) and duo (with bass player).

LISA McQUEEN

Lisa composed the original score for SCROOGE & MARLEY, which was filmed in Chicago and recorded with a live orchestra.   She is a prolific composer of original comedy musicals including Shark Tank, the Musical, Forty Whacks, the Lizzie Borden Story, Tiny Fascists: A Boy Scout Musical, and Raven and The Messenger among many others. Lisa has been Music Director for Second City National Touring Company and also for Second City’s sit-down runs at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Rochester’s GEVA Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Barbados Holder's Festival and Boom Chicago Amsterdam. She was Music Director for the Off-Bway Production of WILDMEN! with George Wendt and The People vs. Friar Lawrence at Chicago Shakespeare with Keegan-Michael Key. Most recently, Lisa was MD of Second City’s She, The People and a leg of the WHOSE LIVE IS IT ANYWAY? 2023 tour with Ryan Stiles. Lisa is also a working jazz pianist and leads a Rolling Stones tribute band: The Rolling Clones.