This edition's featured artist

Anni Bootz Band

Dream Aria

Confucius Says

Confucius Says is a 4-piece jamband that has been playing around greater Boston since May, 2005. We cover material by the Grateful Dead, Little Feat, Phish, Hot Tuna, Hank Sr. and many more. We also play original material in the jamband genre.

From country, to rock, to space jam, Confucius Says puts a positive jamband spin on all the music we play. Come check out an upcoming show on the gig page or contact us to book a show.

Aliza Hava

Rebecca Kragnes

The music I choose to listen to at a certain time is a reflection of my real self in a given moment — what I am feeling, thinking or doing. By contrast, writing music is an expression of my ideal self. It is not a reflection but is an actual part of the best person I am. This piece of the ideal me is captured by sound in a fleeting moment.

Janet Kuypers

Born June 22 1970, Kuypers graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with a degree in News/Editorial Communications Journalism (with computer science engineering studies). She had a minor in photography and specialized in creative writing. She worked as an art director, a photographer and a model, and has been published over 17,000 times for art work in books, magazines and on the Internet. In interviews with Nation, Discover U, and on ArtistFirst.com Internet Radio, she has discussed her artwork with her writing. She has also been the lead singer of acoustic bands Mom¹s Favorite Vase, Weeds and Flowers, and The Second Axing, has been live on the radio alone and with these bands in central Illinois as well as Chicago, has had concerts in Chicago and Alaska, and ran a weekly poetry and music open mike. Her quarterly performance art shows in Chicago have allowed her to utilize her artwork with music and her writings. Through travel through all fifty of the United States, as well as Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, the Vatican City, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Shanghai and Beijing in China, she has had many opportunities to visually document many aspects of life.

Kama Linden

Singer-songwriter kama linden is TRULY UNINHIBITED, and just WAIT until you hear. This gutsy lyricist catches you with her edgy, yet well trained voice: emotional when necessary to drive home a ballad, and makes you do a double take when you listen to her biting lyrics (she said WHAT ). A former musical theater baby, she does ALL her harmonies, and has a pretty big range. Her music comes alive thanks to the help of her Producer Paul Snook of Night Owl Studios, NYC. Onstage she is sexy and fun, yet sincere in her delivery. If her eye contact and evil wink don't capture you, her sensuality in voice and movement will. Check out: Waiting, Crossed Over (regular and remix), Young and Pretty (remix), Don't Shut Me Out (regular and remix) CDs on sale through www.kamalinden.com (will direct you to other sites).

Mistral

I would like to introduce Mistral. We are from the USA. Our influences are Jethro Tull, Genesis, Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, UK, and more recently the Flower Kings, Anglagard & Benny Jansson.

Mistral - Fortunes of War is currently available as a CDR. This is a digitized CDR of the original release on cassette in 1982. This summer, Mistral will release a double CD, one old, one new. Fortunes will be digitally remastered and re-mixed. The second CD will have new material, alternative versions of a few of the old songs, and previously unreleased music from the period 1984-1987. Stay tuned to the website for new material samples coming soon.

Ngoma

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and paradigm shifter, who for over 30 years has used culture as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought. A former member of the SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS AND PLAYERS with Amiri Baraka and the Contemporary Freedom Song Duo, SERIOUS BIZNESS, Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution for a just and peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and was published in AFRICAN VOICES MAGAZINE, LONG SHOT ANTHOLOGY, THE UNDERWOOD REVIEW, SIGNIFYIN' HARLEM REVIEW and 'BUM RUSH THE PAGE/DEF POETRY JAM ANTHOLOGY He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word Documentary, "The Apro-Poets" with Allen Ginsberg. Ngoma has hosted the slam at the Dr. Martin Luther King Festival of Social and Environmental Justice Festival (Yale University-New Haven, CT) for the past 9 years. His newest CD release,"Ngoma's Take Out (Smokin' Spoken Word Cuisine w/Jazz-F unk-Fusion)" and his CD Movie Documentary "Ngoma:Alive and In Your Face from NYC", takes Jazz/Funk/Fusion and the Spoken Word to the next level. His CDs "D idgitation:Solo Didgeridoo Musik for Meditation" and "Ancient Future M editational Musik" are must haves for those interested in altered states of consciousness.

James Pearson

James Pearson is a multi-instrumentalist who composes, arranges and records in his humble home studio. He also engineers and produces other musicians and songwriters. The songs available for downloading from pearsonart.com were recorded with Ableton Live and Tracktion on his mac mini. He made the samples entirely of manipulated acoustic & effected guitar, found object percussion and nano orchestral snippets from old vhs recorded movies and tv shows. He does not use any commercial sample libraries or sound synthesis. Have a listen. Collect them all.

Karen Gibson Roc

Emerging from a thriving spoken word and music scene in New York City, Karen Gibson Roc and Fluid (The Band) bring a cohesive and fusion-like sound. They slip in and out of several different musical genres with ease. Karen shares dynamic words of wisdom while intoxicating here audience with raw stage presence.

Mario Rodriguez

Mario Rodriguez is considered one of the finest bassists in the world. He is considered a virtuoso on his six string bass both fretted and fretless. His proficiency on the accoustic bass is less known but equally as fine.

Currently, Mr Rodriguez is performing with several artists. He has been playing with legendary saxophonist and composer Gato Barbieri, prodigy of the guitar Al di Meola, new comer guitarrist Romero and most recently for Eddie Allen and his Salongo" better know for his work with Billy Harper quintet.

Mr Rodriguez has also played for such legendary singers as Lisa Minelli, Tony award winner Lllias White, and the man known as the voice of Las Vegas Clint Holmes.George Dalaras, Gabriela Anders, Mongo Santamaria, and Tito Puente have also taken great pleasure in working with Mr Rodriguez.

Ricky Singh

Trinidadian Brooklyn bred Ricky Singh is in simpler words an artist. After a two-year on-and-off hiatus up in Buffalo for state-instituted higher learning, he's back home in Brooklyn creating on "discarded objects." "I see so much stuff we throw away as a society;we thow it away to get the next big thing and I think this is often comparable to how we treat people. We throw them away when we find something better. In essence, I see so many interesting things on the street, not "garbage," but objects that people have rejected from society. Objects that have not had the opportunity to live a life of purpose or they've been "put out to pasture" as one might say. I am simply just offering a alternative. Giving them a life." While his life has been referred to "one for the ages (whatever that means)." He's been living at a young age with an old soul, even with his accomplishments up to this date, he is still very unsatisfied.

Christian Wicklein

The end of a late summer day fades to a cool twilight. Streetlights buzz into life on the suburban streets of a small town as stars wink into view overhead. Here two guitars and two voices tell stories of longing and hope for a better day. This is the music of Christian Wicklein and Charlotte Taylor…this is Hero of Our Time.