Matt Finck & Brad Monkell aka The Mink & The Monk present Amy Bellamy live at The Lark Street Tavern featuring Mike Nappi on the drums

Amy Bellamy is a master keyboardist who’s credits include:

• Perfomances with the A-Beez (music director and coproducer of this modern soul/funk original band with husband and bassist Aaron Bellamy), Chaka Khan, Beyoncé, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gerry Leonard, Shing 02, Sam Kininger Band (of Lettuce/Soulive), Oleta Adams, Valerie Simpson, and Club D’elf

• Leader of 14-year-long Tuesday night funk/fusion residency at the renowned Wally’s Jazz Cafe

• Performed for President Bill Clinton (Clinton Foundation)

• Performed at venues including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Blue Note Jazz Club NYC, Irving Plaza, House of Blues Boston and Chicago, B.B. King’s NYC, Rochester Jazz Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, Cayenne Jazz Festival, and many more

• International appearances in the Caribbean, Europe (including at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, and St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy)

• Shared bills with Parliament Funkadelic, Morris Day and the Time, Bootsy Collins, Fishbone, Soulive, Bela Fleck, and many more

• Recordings include the A-Beez, Say Goodbye (2018) and Never Going Back (2015); with Club D’elf, So Below, Deluxe Edition (2018); with Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project: Love and Soul (2015); with Sam Kininger Band, Anthem (BMG Japan, 2010); and with Jen Kearney, Age of Blame (2014)

Mike Nappi became interested in learning to play clarinet at age 10 and by the age of 13 picked up theAlto Saxophone. At 15, he became very serious with Drums and started taking private lessons. Within a few years he became a professional drummer. As he furthered his skills and technique with teachers such as Arti Dixson and Ralph Peterson Jr., he found himself performing and touring full time by the age of 19.

Over the next several years he has Nationally and Internationally performed, toured and recorded with Artists and Bands such as: Kim Waters,David Berkman ,Joe Diorio, John Patitucci, Kal David, J.Geils, Lucky Peterson, Aki Bermiss, Javier Colon, The Orion Experience, Sophie B Hawkins, just to name a few, as well as  off Broadway work including The Broadway Boys, Picture Incomplete, and Mr. Irresistible. He also held one of the chairs as a house drummer at the Terra Blues Club in Greenwich Village  backing up the artists that perform there frequently.

Currently he is still performing in the NYC tri-state area, writing music for TV and teaching privately.