Z Saj Z Saj, pronounced Z Sage, is an artist, songwriter, public speaker, educator and business-owner from the west side of Chicago, IL. Saj pulls inspiration from her everyday experiences. Authenticity has been a big key in the creation of Z Saj’s journey. She has made it a point to…
Daniel Pak Originally from the island of O`ahu, Daniel Pak is a singer, songwriter, and producer residing in Seattle, Washington. As frontman for Kore Ionz, Pak has shared the stage with many of reggae’s trailblazers, including The Wailers, Steel Pulse, and Toots and the Maytals. In 2011, “Love You Better,”…
Emma Jayne Emma Jayne is an Emmy nominated composer, singer-songwriter, and comedian living in Brooklyn, New York. Her songs have appeared everywhere, from Coca Cola commercials to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Emma won his “Battle of the Instant Songwriters. For lovers of Carole King, Sara Bareilles, and…
Joselyn Wilkinson Joselyn Wilkinson, of acclaimed folk blues duo Joselyn & Don, is a professional musician, arts educator and facilitator working to create equitable access to music education for disadvantaged youth and advocate for diversity in the folk and roots music community as well as founder of the women’s global…
CANDY ROOM Okcate Smith McCommas is enrolled Mvskoke (Creek) and of Mexican and Celtic heritage. Under the band name CANDY ROOM alongside her husband Steven, they write and produce music that addresses environmental and social issues, such as inequity, worker exploitation, and mental health awareness. Currently, CANDY ROOM is working…
Lilli Lewis As the story goes, Lilli Lewis should never have been. Before she was born, Lewis’ mother was told her baby probably wouldn’t survive due to lung trouble, so the fact that Lewis now makes a living singing with those same lungs is a gift she never takes for…
Jean Rohe Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. Jean recently won the 2022 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriting contest with her deeply personal and timely song “Animal”. Her latest full-length record as…
Arielle Silver Arielle Silver is a consummate storyteller whose rich, expressive voice and acoustic guitar frame expansive melodies that echo her tours and travels across the American heartland. Raised on folk festival fields and synagogue pews, in woodsy and watery places up and down the Atlantic Seaboard and now based…
Neale Eckstein Neale works in the acoustic music community as a producer, engineer, photographer, videographer and songwriter. He has been involved in making music since his early teens, playing in cover bands and putting together sound systems. Neale put down the guitar and got a DDS degree from the University…
Rachael Kilgour Rachael Kilgour is a Canadian-American songwriter and performing artist whose plain-spoken, lyric-driven work and intimate performances have endeared her to listeners and fellow artists alike. The 2015 grand prize winner of the international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and winner of the 2017 Kerrville New Folk Contest,…
