TERESA WILLIAMS

BIOGRAPHY

Teresa Williams grew up at the crossroads of American roots music as a seventh-generation cotton farm in Western Tennessee. Inspired by the sounds of the Mississippi Delta, Muscle Shoals, Nashville and Kentucky, Williams has sung with Bonnie Bramlett, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Hot Tuna and the post-Grateful Dead projects Furthur and Phil Lesh & Friends. She and her husband, guitarist/producer Larry Campbell, are members of Levon Helm’s backing group and regularly perform at Helm’s famed Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, N.Y. Williams also appeared on Helm’s three Grammy-winning albums. “Dirt Farmer,” “Electric Dirt” and “Ramble at the Ryman.”

JERRY “WYZARD” SEAY

BIOGRAPHY

Wyzard is a visionary producer, bassist, performer, arranger, programmer and songwriter whose best-known composition — the classic “Baby Love” by Mother’s Finest — helped land that band in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2011. A pioneer of funk-rock, Wyzard’s musical influence is both deep and wide: You can count both Prince and Eddie Van Halen among his acknowledged acolytes. Wyzard has toured and recorded with the likes of Stevie Nicks and Joan Jett, produced albums for Guitar Shorty and is a member of the all-star international collective, Carl Carlton and the Songdogs. 

CHRISTOPHE WILLEM

BIOGRAPHY

Christophe Willem is the winner of the fourth season of France’s “Nouvelle Star,” the country’s version of “American Idol.” He began his career in the arts acting in the 2004 film “Alive,” and after the “Nouvelle Star” victory he began releasing albums in 2007. Two of his three titles – “Inventaire” and “Cafeine” – debuted at No. 1 in France and high on the Belgian charts, and he’s had five Top 10 hits in his homeland. Willem (ne Durier) became a judge on the French version of “X Factor” in 2011.