This is not your ordinary Sips & Stanzas!  Join us as we travel back to 1996, arguably the best year in Hip-Hop and R&B.  Join our panel as we reminisce about the music of SWV, Maxwell, The Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest and many more.  We’ll discuss the direction of music now versus 20 years ago from the perspective of the artist and the consumer.  Make plans to stick around because immediately following Sips & Stanzas; get ready to join our friends from SpreadLuv for the best tribute concert in the city benefitting NMAAM.

Panelists include:

• Tamara (Taj) Antrice Johnson-George: Wife of Eddie George, Mother, Author, and 1/3 of the multi-platinum selling R&B group Sisters with Voices (SWV)
• Brian Sexton and Lonnell Matthews: Co-founders of SpreadLuv, LLC whose mission is to create a platform for independent artists, musicians and visual artists
• Laura Reed: South African born Singer/Songwriter who’s making an impact with her original neo-world, soul sound
• Allison Semmes: stars as Diana Ross from “Motown The Musical”