Allyship & Transcending Differences

Allyship & Transcending Differences

In a time of great division, building bridges has become more about accepting different perspectives and less about creating agreement. For artist changemakers like Eric Dozier, Nimo Patel and Sara Thomsen, allyship is a lifelong process of building relationships and overcoming divides. Their music is a powerful tool for transcending…
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Panelist Profile: Millie Heckler

Panelist Profile: Millie Heckler

Embodying Self & Expanding Perception “Self-expression is the taking of an internal impulse — a personal vision — and through self-awareness putting it into external form.” That’s how USC describes the process by which people create art, achieving both self-expression and self-awareness. For videographer, documentarian, singer/songwriter, and actress Millie Heckler,…
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Panelist Profile: Omega Jade

Panelist Profile: Omega Jade

Speaking Truth & Building Legacy There is much opportunity to embrace at the intersection of comedy and hip hop. Just ask Omega Jade — creator, host, and producer of Rhyme & Unreason, which can be described as “a chaotic mashup of standup comedy and freestyle rap.” But embracing this opportunity…
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Panelist Profile: Rajnii Eddins

Panelist Profile: Rajnii Eddins

Shedding Light & Sharing Hope Over the past year and a half, the global pandemic has fundamentally reshaped relationships between business, society, and government. Widespread calls for systemic change go hand in hand with a shift toward more socially conscious consumerism. For spoken word artist Rajnii Eddins, that means poetry…
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Survivor Stories: Myles Bullen

Survivor Stories: Myles Bullen

Myles Bullen is a Native American “soft rap art poet” from Portland, Maine. Music has helped him through the hardest parts of his life; he makes his music to help others in the same way. With inventive wordplay and powerful lyrics, Myles raps over everything from smooth jazz beats, to…
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Nicholas Trahan/GeNreal: Using Music to Connect with Rural Youth

Nicholas Trahan/GeNreal: Using Music to Connect with Rural Youth

“Just doing what I had wished another person had done for me when I was that age.” That’s what fuels New England hip hop and rap artist “GeNreal,” otherwise known as Nicholas Trahan, to make an impact on rural youth. For him, success has always been about mindset. And if…
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Emilia Dahlin: Facilitating the Voices of Immigrant Mothers

Emilia Dahlin: Facilitating the Voices of Immigrant Mothers

Photo: Lauryn Hottinger If a picture paints a thousand words, it can also forever change a life. That’s what happened to musician Emilia Dahlin when she saw the starkly haunting images of the arduous journeys faced by immigrants, taken by renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado in his book "Migrations: Humanity in…
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Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls

Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls

Creativity, connection and community... That's what encompasses the work of Myles Bullen, a Native American musician, poet and performer from Portland, Maine—and one of Music to Life's Northern New England Accelerator participants. Over the past few years, Bullen has performed in schools, prisons and recovery centers around the world. Just…
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Concert Archives: Sasha Klare-Ayvazian & Steven Hernandez, June 28,2020

Concert Archives: Sasha Klare-Ayvazian & Steven Hernandez, June 28,2020

Learn More about Sasha Klare-Ayvazian & Steven Hernandez ARTIST: Steven Hernandez  ARTIST: Sasha Klare-Ayvazian HOST: Anmol Mehra  EMCEE: Leti Bueno Music has always played a vital role in the social change movements of our time. Now more than ever we need it! Become part of the musical response team by attending…
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Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America

Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America

Music and social activism have intertwined throughout Gina Chavez’s career as a Latinx bilingual folk-pop singer. Gina began writing music while living in Argentina. Later she spent eight months as a volunteer teacher in a gang-dominated barrio in El Salvador. Her single "Siete-D" is a celebration of the Salvadoran spirit…
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