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!

Aaron White

Aaron brings everything from killer vocal perc to awesome solos, and everything else in between!

Daniel Tobes

Dan, who is originally from Michigan (Go Blue!), relocated to Chicago with his family in the summer of 2022 after a one-year stint in Manhattan. He has been involved in organized (and sometimes unorganized) singing since middle school. After singing with the Grunyons (yes those Grunyons) in Metro Detroit for several years while in medical school and residency he became well acquainted with Jive. Once he landed in Chicago, he knew where his singing destiny lay.

Melissa Shubalis Moulden

Melissa is a mom by day, and a singing machine by night. She's been an alto in Jive for… let’s just say a while now, and joined when she was 12. Aside from helping to musically direct this very talented and attractive acappella group, she previously worked in marketing, and now sings in a few bands for “work.” Presently she’s in a wedding band called Euphoria and fronting an Alanis Morissette tribute band called Jagged Little Pill. She also occasionally sings with Green Fourteen (wedding band), and has been 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.

Jon Yan

Fun and fabulous Jon totally rocks.

Jared Beverly

Jared Beverly sings bass. He's a singer in his church choir, 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.

Chris Meister

Chris Meister is a previous member of Lake Shore Jive and is so excited to be a part of the group again since returning to Chicago after a 7-year stint away! He looks forward to singing some great harmonies and solos with the group at gigs around the city and at Spring Sing.

Maria-Paz Shariff

Maria brings a beautiful voice, smile…and tons of fun energy!

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 Discord conversations, The Voice, saying the word "arugula", and of course, outfits made out of curtains worn high on a hill with a lonely goatherd.