Saturn Biographies:
Gloria Powers

Gloria Powers is a cultural anthropologist and special events coordinator. She manages the jazz group Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe and serves as public relations and marketing consultant for Rhythm & Muse, an international entertainment resource company. She has twenty years experience planning, coordinating and implementing cultural programs and music productions. A published writer with experience in editing and print media productions, Gloria promotes and publicizes the projects she directs.

Since 1991 Gloria has served as Executive Director and Development Director for the Big Easy Entertainment Awards produced by GAMBIT Weekly. This annual event features national and local celebrities presenting more than forty awards in music and theatre. Proceeds from the gala event benefit the Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education. She also produces the affiliated annual Tribute to the Classical Arts luncheon offering awards for classical music, opera and dance; these awards began in 1994.

She has served as a consultant to the New Orleans Music Business Institute and its annual Cutting Edge Music Conference since its inception in 1992. She was the coordinator of the Roots Music Gathering segment in 1996 and 1997.

Gloria has coordinated international cultural heritage conferences and art exhibitions for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) the Latin American Chamber of Commerce, and the City of New Orleans. She served two years as the Director of Delta Folklife Festival held in Farriday, Louisiana (funded by the NEA). She has ten years experience in the international trade and tourism (Latin America and Canada) and served two terms on the International Advisory Council for the Mayor of New Orleans.

In partnership with Michael Ray, she owns and operates Rhythm & Muse, an international entertainment resource company booking talent, producing jazz concerts and innovative multi-arts productions based on themes relating to the history and mystery of jazz and multi-cultural traditions in the creative arts. The group's Neon Sound Performance concept earned them a Regional Artists Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockerfeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation. They have been endorsed and presented by members of the National Performance Network, the Lisa Wallace-Readers' Digest National Jazz Network, the Louisiana Jazz Federation, The Louisian Division of the Arts and the Arts Council of New Orleans. Rhythm & Muse handles management and booking for Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe bringing Jazz Funk of the Future to major festivals and music venues internationally.

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