our motley crew

Here are our fabulous, fun, crazy, talented, fun, goofy, amazing, fun peeps.
We look forward to meeting you at our next gig!  

Griffin Dassatti

Griffin first joined Jive way back in 2013 after complaining to Chris Meister (a fellow member of Griff's college choir and a'cappella group) that he needed an outlet for all of the singing energy he'd been building up since leaving college. Chris brought Griff in for an audition and the rest is history...until Griff got this stupid idea to go to grad school on the east coast and left Jive in 2016.
Like a fool, he thought that would be the end of his journey. But O, dear Reader, how wrong he was. After four years away from Chicago, he's back and couldn't be happier to rejoin both the city and a cappella group he loves most!

Megan Melody

Megan Melody (yes that is her real name) joined LSJ in November of 2021. She previously sang as member of her school and church choirs, in local community theater productions, and in an all-female a cappella group at the College of the Holy Cross, The Delilahs. Over the past decade Megan has been pursuing a career in medicine (she is currently a hematology and oncology fellow at Northwestern), and her singing has been mostly limited to her shower. When she is not working, she enjoys reading trashy novels, biking, trying out new restaurants in the city, wine tasting (and recently passed her first level sommelier exam), and hanging out with her husband Eric and puppy Dawin. Megan is excited to continue her love of singing as an alto in LSJ.

Melissa Shubalis Moulden

Melissa is a mommy by day, and a singing machine by night. She's been an alto in LSmfJ for a while now, but it’s a mystery exactly how old she was when she joined... 18 perhaps. Aside from helping to musically direct this extremely talented (and dashingly attractive) a cappella group that rocks her world, Melissa sings in a few cover bands in her "spare" time. Needless to say, she doesn’t sleep much. You might see her singing at someone’s wedding in the super fun Euphoria Band, or rocking her newest endeavor - an Alanis Morrissette tribute band called Jagged Little Pill. She's also performed as a member of the Apollo Chorus, BeatVox, and several other bands including The Hookups, The Andrew Blake Band, Pirate Radio, Raise Your Glass, Wingman, U.F.C. Band, Seven Soul, and Voices, to name a few. Melissa's Greek name means love, and she has many of those, including but not limited to: sushi, good gluten-free beer, bacon, La Pasadita’s steak tacos, caramel ice cream (are we sensing a trend here?)... her hubby, Chandler Bing (those are meant to be read separately, heh)... and of course, her two wonderful kids! 

Jon Yan

Fun and fabulous newbie to Jive! Jon joined us just before last year’s Spring Sing— and totally rocked.

Jared Beverly

Jared Beverly sings bass. He's a singer in his church choir, a new Jiver, and a lover of all things acapella. When he's not singing, he's studying for his PhD in biblical studies. He also enjoys running along the shores of Lake Michigan, knitting, costuming, dogsitting, and drinking coffee.

Emily Newhouse Dillingham

Emily has been singing with Jive since 2006, after stints with the University of Virginia's First Year Players, DC's Vox Populi, and Northwestern's Wigmore Follies and Habeas Chorus. At the moment, she's a soprano, but she fills in as an alto, a tenor, an erstwhile music director...whatever gets the job done!  She lives in Andersonville with her husband, her daughter, and Betty the wonder dog, and she loves boating, traveling, and watching any reality programming Netflix has to offer. When she's not singing with Jive, Emily practices yoga and law.

Mick Gehr

Also new this this past year to Jive! Mick brings not just a great sense of humor, but also awesome (and fun) musical direction!

Tim Molsky

A midlife crisis recently brought Tim back to a cappella 20 years since defeating John Legend's group at Carnegie Hall on the night that inspired Pitch Perfect. Broken from no legal claim to either the movies or Legend's hits and a failed audition to replace Lionel Richie in the Commodores, Tim shifted his career from gracing the New York Times music spread to modeling spreadsheets.  Though he excels in finance, Tim could no longer hide from his past. Look out Legend, all of me is back!

Judi Riley

We haven't seen Julie Andrews for a while. That's because she has created a new secret life as a designer in an obscure midwestern toddling town near a (great) lake and joined a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious a cappella group. She now goes by the name of Judi, named after the Saint of Hopeless Cases who she prays to anytime she is given an arrangement that requires her to sing above, or anywhere near a high C. "Judi" does, however sport a killer hands-free cab whistle! A few of her favorite things include hugs, people who can laugh at themselves, LSJ witching-hour Slack conversations, Songland, saying the word "arugula", and of course, outfits made out of curtains worn high on a hill with a lonely goatherd.