Gathered around the hearth, we'll experience and be part of the music of:
Aaron Nigel Smith
Aaron Nigel Smith is a Grammy® Nominated musician and Billboard #1 recording artist who has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Lollapooza, and Pickathon, and performed throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He was also a featured musical guest and composer for the Emmy Award winning PBS Kids show Between the Lions in 2008.
Aaron is an educator with 20 years of experience creating music curricula. In 2002, he founded FUNdamentals of Music & Movement, a fun approach to music classes for preschool children. He scaled FUNdamentals to a national program and sold to RockStarts in 2012. Young Audiences, The Right Brain Initiative and Arts for Learning added Smith to their teaching artist roster in 2011, and in 2013 he was named the Sunburst Teaching Artist of the Year..
Aaron and his wife Diedre, formed the non-profit 1 World Chorus with the mission of promoting peace and empowering youth internationally through the arts. More than 10000 youth in Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Kenya & Jamaica have participated in 1 World chorus programs. Aaron’s simple mission is to connect and empower youth, families and communities through music and the arts.
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Yawa (aka Amenta Abioto)
Yawa is a songwriter and producer from Memphis, TN and currently resides in Portland, OR. In her one-woman performance, she builds vocal and instrumental loops from synth, drum machines, and kalimba creating atmospheric textures. Yawa surprises and tantalizes audiences with mind bending ideas while skipping musically from soul-shaking gospel to smooth jazz. Her music is boldly mystical and soul-fired, and her raw live performances invoke elements of both theatrical and magical surprise.
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