Ally Chapel

Ally Chapel (ArtHist’14) lives in New York City where she started an all-female, nine-piece New Orleans style brass band called Brass Queens. She writes she adopted the colors black and gold for her brand in CU’s honor. The band’s 2023 album is called Black & Gold, and Ally wrote the title track as an anthem fully from the perspective of a CU fan. In December, they toured through Colorado. She writes that she “co-founded the band, dedicated to showcasing the talents of female musicians, in 2019 as a way to disrupt a landscape that was dominated by male musicians and bandleaders.” The band has played iconic venues like Blue Note Jazz Club and major events like the Met Gala, Governors Ball Music Festival and Exit Zero Jazz Festival and made TV appearances on Good Morning America.