Ana Azzue Gallira and Ori Alon are artists whose work is participatory, engages the public, and facilitates positive experiences. Ori is based in Beacon, New York and Ana has recently moved from New York to California’s Bay Area.
http://www.supportivebureaucracy.org/hiddenfortunewheel.html
Risa Tochigi, aka Boogie, is one half of the dynamic duo boogieREZ. Boogie is a Japanese American artist who crafts detailed imaginary creatures, flowing abstractions and fun and uniquely creative loving characters. Her body of work taps into the flow of the streets and the vibrations of the dance culture. Her creative spirit blends the technical mastery of traditional Japanese prints with urban imagery, materials and locations.
She is an illustrator, painter and a muralist who truly lives life to the fullest. She can’t stop, won’t stop creating! She works on a wide range of projects in a number of mediums. Recently, she has been deeply involved in using ply-wood to bring her illustrations to life. Her imagination and love of nature and design has led her to create many organically inspired pieces. Some of these projects include, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Nord Anglia International School, Art 4 WTC, Jonathan Levine projects, O+ Positive festival, Sun Rise Steam Shack, Int-O Yellow, First Street Project, Raw Brooklyn, Star Street Art Project, Meeting Of The Styles, Mural WTC2
She believes visual art is an extremely vital component of life. She is always experimenting with different processes and pushing the boundaries. The art movement called UMEWE draws a tremendous amount of creative encouragement found in all her projects. This crusade was developed as a collaborative effort in which art and design act as a platform to promote optimism and combat depression. Her deep need to help others is rooted in her work. She is heavily inspired by her incredible nephew Masaki, her partner in crime Rezones, the culture of HIP HOP, sensational African drum and dance, yoga and all the amazing people that she crosses paths with on a daily basis.
Lucinda is a self-taught muralist and painter. She is currently a resident artist at the Grand ArtHaus in Phoenix, AZ. She begun curating and throwing underground art shows which led her to curate group and solo exhibits for local artists. She has facilitated mural projects in Phoenix one being with immigrant rights organizations such as Colibri Center for Human Rights. Lucinda has worked alongside public artists: Mata Ruda on several murals. One being the longest mural project in the US, known as Gateways to Newark. She has now begun her own path to painting her own murals, was part of this years Wall Therapy in Rochester, NY and has shown in several galleries in the U.S, such as ChimMaya Gallery in East LA. 17 Frost Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Tangent Gallery Milwaukee Detroit, MI, El Chante Casa de Cultura Albuquerque, NM, The Hive Gallery Phoenix, AZ, Arizona Latino Arts and Culture Gallery Phoenix, AZ and The Grand ArtHaus Phoenix, AZ. Lucinda has spoken at conferences and on panels as a guest speaker. One being at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ for La Revolución: The Legacy of Mural Art in the Southwest and in Rochester, NY for Wall Therapy conference titled “Art and Social Change at Times of Crisis”. Lucinda continues to serve her local community in Phoenix as an artist, muralist, curator, activist, volunteer and mentor.
https://lamorenaart.bigcartel.com
https://iamapotropaic.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/lucinda-yrene-muralism-feminisim-and-spirituality/
The Sad Voice is the new solo venture of the former leader of Clare and the Reasons. Clare and Olivier Manchon will put together chamber music versions of Clare and the Reasons songs as well as new song, and other covers. Clare went into the underground world of having 2 kids back to back and hasn’t performed in several years. She will become her own shadow for this performance at O+ and the Sad Voice will sing for a real audience.
Pete International Airport is the brain child of Peter G. Holmström. It’s name is borrowed from a song title by his other band, The Dandy Warhols. Pete International Airport’s new album, Safer With The Wolves…, is a meticulously crafted psyche rock journey into the dark heart of electronica. The album’s 11 tracks feature guest singers from like-minded allies such as: The Black Angels, Daydream Machine, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dark Horses, Hopewell, and more. It was released by A Recordings in November.
The live band consists of long-time collaborator Daniel Sparks, plus Tara Autovino and Jason Russo of Guiding Light.
MAMADOU KELLY hails from Goundam near Timbuktu in the heartland of Mali’s Niger River Delta. Born in 1969, KELLY first picked up the guitar at 17 and traveled up the river to the town of Niafunke to learn from the great Ali Farka Toure, legendary master of Mali’s acclaimed “desert blues” tradition. After Farka Toure’s death in 2006 KELLY went on to become a key member of Alkibar, the group formed by Afel Bocoum, a Niafunke contemporary of Ali Farka Toure.
In 2013, KELLY released his first solo album with the well-received “Adibar”. Returning in October 2015 with “Djamila”, KELLY established himself as a formidable performer and composer full of subtle music – one of Mali’s emerging contemporary masters. Backed by veteran sidemen collectively known as BanKaiNa, the band cooks refined rhythms into profound grooves.
Kelly has toured North American several times: in 2011 as part of the Acoustic Africa tour, in 2013 as part of the Festival au Desert – Caravan for Peace tour. He is the leader of the Ali Farka Toure Tribute Band and last was in the USA in May of 2017. Among the venues where Kelly has performed are: New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago’s World Music Festival, the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, Sante Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center, Montreal’s Festival Nuits d’Afrique, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and many other celebrated venues.
https://www.clermontmusic.com/mamadou-kelly/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLs1vco0NrE&feature=youtu.be
We are a small, friendly group of LGBTQ and allied singers who travel from all corners of the Hudson Valley to blend our voices and perform beautiful a cappella music together! Formed at the beginning of 2016, we focus on mostly-modern secular music in four-part harmony. Common themes within our music include equality, love and celebration of our unique identities.We perform at least one major concert per year as well as various small gigs such as at Pride and open mic nights. We rehearse Monday evenings in Kingston.
THE BEAUTIFUL BASTARDS are a tent revival for the Church of Friday Night Rock and Roll healing you deserve. The Kingston, NY based power trio twists traditional elements around post modern rhythms and muscular arrangements that make them sound much bigger than the sum of their parts. Expect a mashup of 60s-70s NYC-artrock, Chicago blues, vintage R+B, and proto-punk. Their sound is defined less by genre than the conviction that rock music should be sensual, cathartic, and liberating.
The Hipstones have fronted various seven to nine piece lineups. Mark and Anthea currently take to the stage as a “soul duo”. The duo’s beloved harmonies, soulful roots, and sophisticatedly accessible songcraft are now enriched by electronic textures, deconstructed and futuristic hip-hop beats, and captivating but challenging modern jazz compositional flourishes.
Raised in the urban sprawl of Brooklyn, Stranger Cat—the electro pop project from Cat Martino —was born out of a respite in the wilderness. As most stories go, she was seeking a noiseless place for musing, but found instead a sentient beast stalking through the woods, be it animal, alien, or deity; she memorized its sound.
The frequent collaborator with Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, The Shins, Sharon Van Etten and others, released Stranger Cat’s debut album In The Wilderness on Joyful Noise Records, a soulful collection of art pop songs. Marked my Martino’s velvet croon, signature vocal looping, and driven by a production style that is both electronic and organic, Stranger Cat delivers intricate, soulful, and dark R&B pop. NPR cites it “Pairs high-energy production with soaring vocals that sound like a dare to be free”, while Noisey says it “Hangs in a starry galaxy alongside Bat For Lashes, Kate Bush, Chew Lips, and Purity Ring”.
Whether playing solo, or with a rotating cast of accomplices, Martino concocts a mesmerizing set of sound embraced by a voice at once fractured and full of strength, creating an aurally and visually vivid and energetic performance, making live loops onstage using voice, synths, and drum machines. All of this is to serve the song – dark, sexy, soulful, playful and dream-like – that might just make you let yourself go and dance a little bit.
