Shelley Segal Segal's work is rooted in organic sounds and instrumentation. Her nylon acoustic helms both the fingerpicking of her gentle, folkier offerings and the force of her rockier surges. Raised in her father's Klezmer (traditional jewish folk) band she incorporates many of those early influential melodies, progressions and even…
Saxon Kincy Old Man Saxon is a rapper from Denver, most recently featured as the crowd favorite on Rhythm + Flow, the hit Netflix series hosted by Cardi B, Chance the Rapper and TI. His music has been featured on HBO's Silicon Valley, Netflix hit films Malcolm and Marie and…
Carla Gover Carla Gover is a Kentucky-born artist who performs original and traditional music. She offers renditions of ballads and banjo tunes from her native Appalachia as well as original tunes which touch upon themes of home, family, a sense of place, social justice, and spirituality. She has won a…
Elisa Harkins Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. She is the…
Aaron Marfizo Aaron Marfizo is a multi-instrumentalist, music producer, audio engineer, and music community activist. Aaron has a Bachelor’s of Science in Music from the University of Colorado Denver, where he studied audio engineering and piano performance. His accompaniment and production has been featured on local stages across all genres.…
Rissi Palmer Rissi Palmer, who describes her musical style as "Southern Soul," has received widespread media attention in national publications including Ebony, Billboard, People, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal and more. She has performed on the CBS Morning Show, CNN, Oprah & Friends, at the White…
Naima ShalhoubNaima Shalhoub is a Lebanese American vocalist, songwriter, and educator for social justice. A former educator in the public school system, Naima spent a year facilitating weekly “Music and Freedom with incarcerated women in San Francisco County Jail, ultimately recording her first album, Live in San Francisco County Jail.…
Em Zanleoni Em Zanleoni is a folk artist from small-town Vermont. Her experience as a church piano player, an opera singer, and a job as a high school psychotherapist reflected her lifelong twin dedication to both music and mental health. After a teen suicide cluster in her area, Em started…
DJ Sean Sean Hay is the owner/ entertainer for LIVEMIXKINGS. He launched the business more than 15 years ago to produce engaging, exciting events for all ages in the community. As part of MtL’s Activist Musician Accelerator, Sean developed a DJ Academy for teens, helping participants understand the history of…
GeNreal Nicholas Trahan (stage name GeNreal) is a hip-hop artist from Bethlehem, New Hampshire. He is a self-taught musician whose dense lyrics accompany self-produced jazzy, psychedelic boom-bap hip hop beats. He has been rapping and sample-based producing since the age of six. Nicholas knows the challenge of being “the only…