With his new 2024 genre and EP PROG:FUNK, New Orleans singer-songwriter-bassist Roland Guerin draws from genres including folk, blues, funk, rock and jazz, Guerin creates stories told through multi-layered melodies, rhythms and lyrics in the style of Steely Dan and Prince. He won a full studio from Burl Audio for Song of the Year with 28 Days. Raised in a musical family – his father was a great lover of jazz and classical music, his mother, a blues and zydeco bass player – Guerin began playing bass at 11. While studying Marketing at Southern University, Guerin joined jazz educator Alvin Batiste’s Band, The Jazztronauts. Guerin has toured and performed with legendary musicians George Benson, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Marcus Roberts, and Paul Gilbert. He's featured on the Blind Boys of Alabama’s Grammy Award winning album Down in New Orleans, Marcus Roberts’s Grammy Award nominated recording of George Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue, and Allen Toussaint’s album Connected. As a member of the Marcus Roberts Trio, Guerin performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and New Japan Philharmonic. Guerin joined the Allen Toussaint Band in 2008, touring until Toussaint passed in 2015. Soon thereafter, Guerin joined the band of Dr. John, becoming The Night Tripper's final Musical Director. Guerin toured Europe with Paul Gilbert in 2019, and the Marcus Roberts Trio in 2022. His Grass Roots album from 2019 was critically acclaimed.