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Thea Hopkins

Thea Hopkins A member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard MA, performing songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music – Red Roots Americana. The Washington Post has described her as "a standout writer." In March 2021, it was announced Thea was the Grand Prize Winner of the 22nd Great…

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Stellar

Stellar Transcendental folk bard Stellar is a clear voice ringing out for justice and liberation. Seamlessly weaving the evocative story and soul of their songwriting with the clarity and urgency of our times, their 2021 solo debut RAINBOW SHADOWS is a manifesto of fury and compassion, a message in a…

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Dumi Right

Dumi Right Dumi Right is a performing artist, MC, and songwriter who has been recognized as a standard bearer in global and progressive hip hop circles for many years. He was first introduced to audiences during hip hop’s golden age as a member of Zimbabwe Legit, one of the first…

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David G Smith

David G Smith Internationally acclaimed Artist-Songwriter David G Smith is an acoustic roots solo performer with a lyric intensive style featuring guitars, a resonator, music and a voice that range from dirt-funk to intimate. His music is a blend of Folk, Americana, Country & Blues and speaks to the issues…

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Vera Chisvo

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…

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Dayvin Hallmon

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…

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treya lam

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…

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Mary Gauthier

Mary Gauthier “With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.” — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time. Her eleventh album, the first record in over 8 years consisting of all her…

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Ruben ‘Beny’ Esguerra

Ruben 'Beny' Esguerra Ruben “Beny” Esguerra arrived as a child to Tkaronto from Bacatá (Bogotá, Colombia) as a political refugee with his parents, who were receiving threats for their human rights activism. Today, he is a JUNO nominated multi-instrumentalist/producer, spoken-word poet, arts educator and community worker. in 2021, he was…

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Tanaya Winder

Tanaya Winder Tanaya Winder is an author, singer / songwriter, poet, and motivational speaker who comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is an enrolled citizen. She received a BA in English from Stanford University and a MFA in creative…

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