Westley Art Hodges is a pianist, clarinetist, and church musician in Chicago, IL.

Although classically trained, Westley Art grew up in New Orleans and is heavily influenced by jazz, blues, and gospel music.

Westley has spent their life performing for scores of churches. Even though church music is at the heartbeat of their music, underlying tones of blues, jazz, and gospel appear often. In their undergrad at Delta State University on Hwy 61 (the Blues capital of the world) in Cleveland, MS, Westley first experienced the blues. Westley heard a pianist playing the blues at a restaurant called the Airport Grocery. Since then, their interest in and study of the blues has peaked, and they often incorporate this passionate style of music into everything they touch.