member profiles

New Jersey's Troubadour, Gordon paints musical portraits that plumb the depths of our emotions and bring the past to life while pointing to a hope-filled future. His listeners are given passports to travel mystical and historical roads through lush, sonic landscapes filled with ghosts, coffee shop waitresses, and railroad engineers, leaving audiences inspired!

Born in New York City, Grace Garland rose to fame in the early 1980s when she played Vera Vanderbilt on the TV series All My Children. She went on to become a series regular on The Apollo Comedy Hour between 1993 and 1995, a TV series filmed at the legendary Harlem Apollo Theater. Grace was described as "The Tina Turner of Jazz.”

Grace performed at Lincoln Center in The Indie Collaborative's 2022 Winter Holiday season show.

Sadly, Grace left us in early 2024. Her bright smile and good humor are sorely missed.

Originally from the Washington, DC area, Gracie Terzian is a singer, songwriter, ukulele player, and actor living in Westchester County, New York. Her first EP, "Saints and Poets," debuted at #23 on the Billboard jazz charts and quickly became the #3 jazz album on iTunes. Gracie has also worked extensively in theatre and film as an actor and composer and is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 American Roots recording artist and co-founder of the Indie Collaborative. In addition to being met with critical acclaim, his AMERICAN STORIES series albums have spent 11 weeks in BILLBOARD's top 10, including #1 on the Heatseeker charts, #5 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart, and #12 on the Country album sales chart, selling nearly 30,000 copies. He has performed at Lincoln Center, The Troubadour, The Bitter End, The Bluebird Cafe, twice at Carnegie Hall, and on PBS television shows like Song of the Mountain and Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. Several official Apple Music playlists featured his latest albums, THE CHRISTMAS HEART and MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES.

His songs have been called "a soul/rock stew with a dash of blues and a pinch of country" (Stone Phillips, The Today Show) and his voice has been compared to soul legends Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. His piano playing has been called "a veritable cyclone of soul, drawing its energy from such diverse regions as the swampland funk of Professor Longhair, the testifying soul of Ray Charles, with the rhythms of African drumming and American roots rock thrown in the mix." - Benny Metten, Ctrl. Alt. Country, August, 2010.