Byron Au Yong Composer and educator Byron Au Yong (歐陽良仁) creates musical events Variety calls “claustrophobic and expansive, intimate and existential, personal and political all at once.” He was born to Chinese immigrants in Pittsburgh and raised in the Pacific Northwest. His upbringing informs an attention to the ways people…
Krudas Cubensi 2019 Internationally recognized as Krudas Cubensi, Odaymar & Oli are originally Cuban Queer Trans Nonbinary Artivists Feminist Hip-Hop Pioneers, currently Oakland California residents. Working class Independent Musicians, Justice Fighters standing for black people, trans people, woman, queers, inmigrants, intersectional beings. In the nineties in Cuba they developed into…
Stellar Transcendental folk bard Stellar is a clear voice ringing out for justice and liberation. Seamlessly weaving the evocative story and soul of their songwriting with the clarity and urgency of our times, their 2021 solo debut RAINBOW SHADOWS is a manifesto of fury and compassion, a message in a…
Treya Lam treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose expansive and intersecting identities inform but do not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with ensembles across a variety of disciplines. their atmospheric voice, liberation oriented songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone…
Mary Gauthier “With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.” — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time. Her eleventh album, the first record in over 8 years consisting of all her…
Brian King/What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? 3rian King is a singer-songwriter, playwright, and performer whose voice Whoopi Goldberg described as the last sound she wanted to hear before sleep to ensure beautiful dreams. Either solo or with neo-cabaret band, What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, 3rian has released 3…
