M3 Festival 2026

The 5th annual M³ festival celebrates some of the most innovative composer-performers in the jazz and creative music scene.

Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), a visionary and non-hierarchical mentorship initiative created by musicians Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, presents its 5th annual in-person festival featuring some of the most groundbreaking composer-performers in the jazz, creative, electronic, singer-songwriter, experimental, and traditional music scenes, and beyond.

M³ Festival 2026 Lineup:  Terri Lyne Carrington • William Parker •  Patricia Nicholson • Theo Bleckmann • Martha Redbone • Marta Sanchez • Caroline Davis • Aaron Whitby • Alexandria DeWalt • Allan Mednard • Carmen Quill • Carolina Borja-Marroquin • Chanelle Ignant •  Coco Elysses • Devon Gates • Ge Linna • Kweku Aggrey • Kweku Sumbry • Mama Dee • Marcus Grant • Melissa Almaguer • Miranda Agnew • Morgan Guerin • Noa Fort • Paige Brown • Rashaan Carter • Stephan Crump • Summer Kodama • Tomas Fujiwara • Unma Allinar • Vitor Gonçalves • Yuhan Su

Tickets and lineup will be made available via the M³ homepage.

Roulette members receive a discount – please email membership@roulette.org for more information.

Presented by M³ in partnership with Roulette.

A livestream will be available free of charge at 7pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization and platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to musicians of historically underrepresented gender identities (including cis women, trans women, trans men and non-binary) in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.