Vera Chisvo Maria Chisvo is a young woman, funky jazz vocalist, voice actor, model and guitarist who goes by the pseudonym Vera. She is a creative catalyst winner of the Women Rising Award from the Hub Unconference 2020, US Embassy International Visitors Leadership Program Alumni of 2021, and Pop Up…
Kartika Jahja Kartika Jahja is a vocalist and songwriter with the group Tika & The Dissidents. Some of the albums they have released to date are Frozen Love Songs (2005), Defrosted Love Songs (2006), Headless Songstress (2009) and MERAH (2016). The band is known to fuse different genres from punk,…
Dayvin Hallmon Before he could speak, Dayvin M.A. Hallmon showed an awareness and love of music. At the age of five years old he began taking piano lessons. Later he learned the clarinet and saxophone. A few years later, Dayvin began studying the violin and viola. Perfectly at home in…
Candice Wicks-Davis Candice is a Long Beach native and the founder and CEO of Edutainment for Equity. She holds a Masters in Education from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor’s in Sociology from UC Berkeley. She has 20 years of experience in the field of technical assistance. Candice is…
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…
Ashni Davé Genre: Pop, Jazz, R&B. Location: Brooklyn, NY Ashni is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and pianist. Her relationship with the stage began with classical North Indian dance, Kathak, and western classical piano. A first-generation Indian American, she grew up absorbing Hindustani classical music and Garba, Gujarati folk music and…
Jason Kao Hwang Genre: Classical Location: NY The music of Jason Kao Hwang (composer/violin/viola) explores the vibrations and language of his history. His compositions are often narrative landscapes through which sonic beings embark upon extemporaneous, transformational journeys. In 2019, 2018, 2013 and 2012, the El Intruso International Critics Poll voted…
Shaina TaubRaised in the green mountains of Vermont, Shaina Taub is a New York-based songwriter and performer. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater and a signed artist with Atlantic Records.As a songwriter, she is a winner of the Kleban Prize, the Jonathan Larson Grant, the Fred Ebb Award,…
Millie Heckler Millie Heckler leans into creative playgrounds of re-emerging possibilities. Her practice is listening. Her interests lie in all the voices of the body fully expressing, no shame, as means to remember, forget and renew the root from which she comes. Connect with Millie: https://www.millieheckler.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071481305331 https://www.instagram.com/mildred_heckles/?hl=en
Omega Jade Omega is originally from San Diego, California, now residing in Burlington Vermont. She started performing as a stand up comedian. She then produced her own comedy shows. You may have heard of Rhyme and Unreason, a crazy mix of comedy and hip hop. Her hunger for performing eventually…
