Nicholas Gaitan It’s hard to come up with anybody who does more things with more skill, integrity, and soul than Nick Gaitan. A singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Nick makes music rooted in Houston’s East End and broader Gulf Coast: Tejano and honky tonk, blues and conjunto, rockabilly and soul. He’s a…
Ben Bedford In July of 2010, Bedford was named one of the “50 most significant Folk singer-songwriters of the past 50 years” by Rich Warren of WFMT-Chicago. The list also included Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Anais Mitchell, Joni Mitchell, and Danny Schmidt. In May of 2018, Bedford was named…
Marielle McIntosh Marielle McIntosh, also known as Marielle & The Flowers, is a musician, artist, and sustainability activist based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. She focuses on music that connects people to the Earth and community through creative lyricism, improv, song circles, and performing for sustainability and community centred events and…
Lara Herscovitch Lara Herscovitch is a singer-songwriter-poet-performer-author gem. As described in The Boston Globe, she brings “a luminous voice and a buoyant stage presence… big-hearted lyrics embrace the sum of life… Herscovitch’s music blows on the embers of a lagging spirit or a dormant creative life.” Lara leads with authenticity,…
Shumaila Hemani Shumaila Hemani, Ph.D. is a multi-award winning creative, climate advocate based in Calgary, Alberta. In partnership with Alberta Ecotrust, Hemani initiated innovative arts-based dialogue on energy accessibility as part of her artist residency at Trico Changemakers Studio (2022-24) and International Centre of Arts for Social Change (2023) that…
Andrea Wise Smith Andrea Wise Smith is a multi-disciplinary mission driven creative that works at the intersections of musical expression, place-based education, equitable community development, and collective liberation. As a singer and songwriter, Andrea draws from her cultural heritage as an African American woman in the Black Diaspora. Andrea’s melodic and…
Patricia Shih Patricia Shih is a multiple national award-winning singer-songwriter, visual artist, filmmaker, author, educator and former TV show host. Her uplifting "music with meaning" touches the hearts, minds and funny bones of her listeners and involves them directly with full audience participation. Ms. Shih tours North America, delighting audiences…
Kevin Chang Kevin Chang is an attorney, film producer, singer-songwriter & Executive Director of a Hawaiʻi non-profit organization Kua‘āina Ulu ‘Auamo (KUA: kuahawaii.org ). Formerly a solo practitioner in the field of entertainment law and civil litigation he continues to perform as a singer-songwriting act known as Mr. Chang and…
Jeri Katherine Howell Jeri Katherine Howell is a Folk/Americana singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist from Frankfort, Kentucky, creating at the intersection of social and ecological justice, wellbeing, and the fullness of our shared human experience. She commands performances with her dynamic voice, thought-provoking lyrics, quality musicianship, and joyful presence. Jeri Katherine…
Seth Glier The earth speaks to us in a myriad of ways — through ice cores, through uplift and erosion, through tree rings — languages we have the potential to restore our literacy in. Reconnecting with these quiet messages has set Seth Glier, an avid mushroom forager and a Grammy-nominated…
