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Lauren Teel is an accomplished percussion performer, arranger, and teacher with experience across the United States. Currently serving as a Visiting Professor of Percussion at Jacksonville State University, she is the Percussion Caption Head (overseeing all aspects of the marching percussion section) for the DCI World Class Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps. While attending the University of North Texas, Lauren was a member of the 17-time PAS National Champion UNT Indoor Drum Line. She was a member of the 2009 and 2010 Phantom Regiment percussion ensemble, which received the 2010 Fred Stanford Award for high percussion, as well as a member of the 2011 Santa Clara Vanguard. Mrs. Teel was also a member of the Heartland Marimba Ensemble from 2020-22, a semi-finalist in the 2015 Great Plains International Marimba Competition, and appeared in the 2013 blockbuster, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” as a timpanist. While living in Atlanta, Lauren performed as a member of the NFL Atlanta Falcons Drum Line. She is a member of the entertainment group, The Wrecking Crew, based out of Atlanta, GA and is an Educational Artist for both Innovative Mallets and Marimba One.

The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra veers from in-your-face, jaw dropping chops and passion to those quiet moments when the background noise disappears and you hold your breath to take in a soundscape of solitude. The power trio of electric bass (E'Lon JD), drums (Maison Guidry), and steel pans (Jonathan Scales) combines elements of jazz, classical, and progressive rock, peppered with Latin rhythms and soulful outbursts of funk. Their innovative sound and raw performance power has drawn high praise from musicians around the world, allowing them to share the stage and recording studio with artists such as Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Howard Levy, Roy “Future Man” Wooten, and Kofi Burbridge. From club and festival stages across North America and Europe and tours of Africa, Southeast and Central Asia as a Cultural Ambassador for the US Department of State to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert featuring Béla Fleck, the Fourchestra’s live shows make even the most jaded listeners forget where they are… even if just for a precious moment