Troubadours of Divine Bliss Troubadours of Divine Bliss, Renee Ananda and Aim Me Smiley, play heartfelt, eclectic folk featuring harmonies "smooth as Kentucky Bourbon", guitar, ebow and accordion. They have been best friends since their teens when they met at a holy-rollin' church outside of Louisville, KY. Despite Aim Me's…
Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley (AKA RaShad Eas) is a Forester, educator, consultant, and musician. Over his career he has been the inaugural diversity Dean at the Yale University’s School of the Environment and NC State’s College of Natural Resources. As a child of civil rights activists…
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…
Emilia Dahlin Emilia Dahlin is a folk artist from Gorham, Maine. She says that “music connects us to the deepest parts of our humanity, and … stitches us together.” A mother of a refugee and a friend of many in war-torn countries, many of Emilia’s songs explore themes of immigration,…
Myles Bullen Myles Bullen is a ukulele-playing rapper and spoken-word poet from Portland, Maine. Myles has toured nearly every state in the US as well as many European countries performing packed shows at music venues, colleges, recovery centers, prisons, festivals, and libraries. Myles sings songs about grief, mental health, navigating…
Cheryl Cawood Cheryl Cawood is a singer/songwriter in Sante Fe, Texas. Her music presents an edgy Country/Blues/Folk vibe. When two of her three daughters fell into patterns of substance abuse, Cheryl turned her experiences into activism by using her music to support the families of people with substance use disorders.…
Jaimee Harris Texas raised Folk N' Roll. Singer, songwriter, criminal justice reform activist, Jaimee Harris has built a devoted critical and popular following in Austin, Texas and beyond. On the heels of acclaimed debut Red Rescue, Jaimee Harris doesn’t disappoint with The Congress House Sessions, an intimate EP with stripped-down…
Sasha Klare-Ayvazian Sasha Klare-Ayvazian is an indie-folk artist in Austin, Texas, who integrates environmental and social justice themes in his music with poetic, anecdotal lyrics over warm guitars and string sections. Sasha founded Live Oak Productions, a program dedicated to shifting the focus of the modern-day music industry to combat…
