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Adrienne Shamszad & Friends
Adrienne Shamszad is a singer-songwriter from the SF Bay Area who writes revolutionary anthems, prayerful power ballads, soul-stirring love songs, the blues, lullabies, and sing-alongs. She plays guitar, piano, and setar to accompany her strong and soulful voice. Adrienne is a bold performer who brings her audiences together with her humor, vulnerability, and a healing touch.
Adrienne’s influences as a guitarist and songwriter are rooted in folk, rock, and R&B as well as the classical poetry and vocal styles of the Iranian musical traditions. Over the years, Adrienne’s music has developed into a bridge between these two dimensions of her own heritage, steering her into the outer reaches of the singer-songwriter genre, and far beyond; American Roots with Mystic Soul.
Adrienne is a two-time recipient of the Living Cultures grant through the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA). She is a multi dimensional artist with extensive training in western classical and jazz vocal technique, acting, musical theater, and music education. She has performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theater as an actress and a composer. She has performed and toured with SOVOSO, an A capella group consisting of members of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra. She has released two full-length albums, an EP and multiple singles and has shared her original music around the world and throughout the U.S.
Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love. In her book of the same name, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya lays out her radical self-love vision, arguing that all people arrive on this planet in a state of self-love before internalizing messages of shame and injustice from systems of oppression. Healing, Sonya suggests, takes place through reconnecting with our inherent divine enoughness, transforming how we live in and relate to both our bodies and the bodies of others. - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/
The Bengsons, Abigail & Shaun, are a married composing and performing duo based in NYC and VT who have performed across the country and around the world. Their video for "The Keep Going Song" has been viewed over 4 million times. Three of their singles have been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX). They have received the Jonathan Larson and Richard Rodgers Awards and nominations for the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards. - https://www.bengsons.com/
You're Going to Die [YG2D] is a 501(c)3 nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality, with a free creatively conscious mortality podcast, monthly sell-out live open mics, concerts, & workshops facilitating creatively conscious mortality space for community, a free online grief space offered every week, an elderhood program integrating senior citizen wisdom into our general communal experience, a hospice program sending musicians to patients' bedsides, prison programming faciliating a suicide prevention group and hosting creatively connecting open mic space and workshops with community in San Quentin & working with community impacted by the prison system [inside & out], and cancer patient workshops & bedside visits for healing through creative writing.
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