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…
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…
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,…
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 and composer 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. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College,…
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…
