Ms. Lisa Fischer w/ Ranky Tanky

Fresh out of college, trumpeter Charlton Singleton, guitarist Clay Ross, bassist Kevin Hamilton, and drummer Quentin Baxter originally worked together as an in-demand jazz quartet on the Charleston scene in the late 1990s before splitting off to each make their way as freelance musicians, working with names like Houston Person, Freddy Cole, Cyro Baptista, and René Marie. Gaining years of valuable experience while developing a deeper appreciation for the South Carolina Gullah tradition they came from, the band reformed with the dynamic vocalist Quiana Parler to celebrate the bone-deep mix of spirituals and gutbucket blues that marks the low country mainland and Sea Islands – music made by a self-contained culture of descendants of enslaved Africans that introduced such indelible parts of American songbook as “Kum Bah Yah” and “Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore.”

The band's 2019 Resilience Music release, Good Time, won Best Regional Roots Music Album at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards.

The word “Gullah” comes from West Africa and means “a people blessed by God,” and “Ranky Tanky” translates loosely from the Gullah/Geechee language as “Work It,” or “Get Funky!”