Inlakesh Music
Friday
9:30 PM ~ Sasha Rose (Solo Electronic Set)
Sasha Rose is a multi-talented Canadian born singer/songwriter, musician, DJ and producer. Born into a musical family, she started learning guitar, flute, African djembe and piano at age 5. She got her first taste of International stardom at age 10 while touring Europe as a member of a children’s chamber choir. From age 16, she began an extensive professional solo-touring career, which took her through the U.S., Australia, Canada and Europe. In 2009, she performed in a choir backing Joan Baez. In 2011, she became a central member of the collective Liberation Movement, a collaborative project with Resurrector of Heavyweight Dub Champion and Shipibo Shamans from the Peruvian Amazon. Sasha has released two solo acoustic albums as Sasha Butterfly, Grace (2001) and Creation Song(2004). She has recorded vocals on over 30 projects including two Random Rab albums, the Interchill release Gathering of the Tribes with her project Kinship, Mimosa’s 2009 album Hostilis and Tea Leaf Green’s 2008 album Raise Up The Tent. In 2011 she co-produced Qi Goddess (with Jami Deva), which is geared towards healing and meditation.
7:30 PM ~ The Ancient Wild
The Ancient Wild is harpist/singer/songwriter Kate Wilde and multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter Christophe Sunhorse. Foot-operated percussion, the Celtic harp, rhythmic guitar, and sweetly soulful female + male vocals make up their unique, synergistic sound. Elements of classical, metal, flamenco, and folk run through their instrumentation, and their inspired lyricism calls for visceral notice of the beauty that surrounds us. A love for the earth lies majestically within each note and word.
5:45 PM ~ Firefly Walter
Firefly walks in many worlds, and through music bridges heart, mind, and spirit. Original compositions explore consciousness and transformation, fueled by passionate lyrics and folk-rock-pop influenced sounds. She has been exploring sound her entire life, from training in classical clarinet to self-taught guitar and piano, folk singing, campfire storytelling, contemporary folk music, devotional chanting, and group singing. She weaves in poetry and symbolism of the mystical path and the hero’s journey into a fresh synthesis of original compositions, spoken word performance pieces, inspirational speaking, sound healing, and workshop facilitation. Her favorite word to describe her creative expression is “prayer-formance”.
11:30 PM ~ Marya Stark
In the space between art and persona there is magic. Artists who work their craft for decades may find it on occasion. Marya Stark lives there. Drawing from influences as diverse as Baroque classical, Broadway, pop and folk, Marya crafts a sound that is wholly original. She creates the way she breathes; without choice or hesitation. With her most recent release, “Unstoppable Joy”, Marya embraces the joy of the universe as a palpable force to be enjoyed. Her recent award-winning album, The Garden, has a greater depth. Marya relates experiences of love lost and found, and of the rites of passage into adulthood.
The classical influenced art-pop sound Stark currently prefers makes perfect sense. She loves grand musical gestures and subtle symbolism, but it’s difficult to carve out a single niche for her. Marya loves to incorporate the audience right into the heart of the song through looping the audience’s voices, passing out props, and telling tall tales. She is a carrier of myth, mystery, and medicine songs with which she embarks to create a ceremony of the human condition, taking her audience on a journey through the caverns of the soul.
Saturday
9:30 PM ~ Tina Malia
Tina Malia is a musical visionary in the world, dream pop and sacred chant communities. The omni-talented Malia uses her artistic gifts as singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, sound engineer and producer to express her radiant inner landscape with an exceptionally broad creative palette. Her voice, an instrument of exceptional purity, can be as tender as an angel’s sigh or as powerful as a deep ocean current. Tina embraces the heart through her original compositions, with lyrics that elate and music that inspires.
Tina’s all-encompassing worldview and artistic perspective have led her to studio and live work with a wide variety of iconic artists such as pop singer India.Arie, revered chant artists Deva Premal & Miten, world music favorites Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Idan Raichel, EDM trailblazer, Bassnectar, and cherished songwriter Kenny Loggins. Tina’s prodigious talent seamlessly harnesses all of these styles as is evidenced in her self-produced catalog of albums: Shores of Avalon, Jaya Bhagavan, The Silent Awakening, The Lost Frontier and now, Bridge to Vallabha.
Malia’s music has been acclaimed by audiences the world over, radio, press and industry tastemakers, including Echoes’ John Diliberto, Kenny Loggins, Jai Uttal, Bassnectar, Yoga Journal, Zone Music Reporter, Music Connection and Soul Traveller.
7:30 PM ~ Elijah Ray
A prodigious composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist and spiritual teacher, Elijah Ray is known for his pioneering heart and transformational music that crosses a wide scope of genres…from funky, danceable tunes and soul-moving ballads, to sound healing and emotionally evocative soundtracks. His shining presence, gritty soul, and message of love invite the listener into an experience of what it is to be an awakening human. His spiritual messages of authenticity and the power of community have transformed audiences internationally, and many are calling his music the “soundtrack of the awakening.” Both mystical and raw, Elijah’s charisma and musical prowess draws his audience into life’s nectar–spiritual, sexy, sweaty, gritty, and ecstatic. Elijah has single handedly crafted a full band sound on most of his “Band of Light” albums, playing most of the instruments and arranging many of the tracks himself.
5:45 PM ~ Alexa Sunshine Rose
Alexa Sunshine Rose brings a sweet healing vibration to Inlakesh this year, with the power of her original sacred songs. Alexa plays in the tuning frequency of A 432 Hz to promote inner peace and deep sound absorption. Listeners worldwide have utilized her music during pregnancy and birth, hospice, yoga and massage, community song circles, and inner-transformational journeys.
“…There are some singers who grow blossoms in the garden of the heart, bringing peace and healing into this world. Alexa Sunshine Rose is one such artist. Her divinely inspired music will sing you up to the stars and back again, deep into your own heart. Her albums are collections of prayer-filled intentions, dancing their way forward in a vision of unity and love!” -Murray Kyle, Mystic Troubador
11:30 PM ~ Diane Patterson
Diane Patterson
This concert features an acoustic duo with Al Torre.
Diane Patterson sings the world awake with strong voice, rocking guitar, sweet ukulele, and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and wild pirate heart joyfully plant seeds of love and light in every listener. Based in Southern Oregon, wordsmith Patterson weaves spirit and unifying social commentary, now around the world, on festival stages, at folk music and conscious music gatherings, healing gatherings and in concert venues of Southern Oregon and Northern California, in Hawaii every winter for the last nine years, in Europe summers of 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2016, and December 2012 in Mexico for Synthesis Festival. Master medicine musician, Al Torre, will accompany Diane on lead guitar on Teach, Inspire, Be Real spring tour from Chicago to Atlanta! They are a mighty duo.
Teach, Inspire, Be Real is Diane’s fourth full length fabulous CD . . . featuring SaraTone, Al Torre, Jared May, Yuji Tojo, Roman Morykit, Bodhi Setchko, Verdell & Vernon Primeaux and Claudia Paige.
Al Torre, of the original Freedom Tribe, will be warming up the Casbah Stage with his fiery brand of guitar work and unique ability to cross seamlessly over many styles and genres of music.
Sunday
9:00 PM ~ Simrit Kaur
“For Simrit, singing is not a performance, it is a sacred worship of the Divine. Her voice, her music, and her teaching, reflect this devotion, which seems to come from her so effortlessly. This devotion is a gift, a talent beyond any, that will lead thousands into the lightness of being and awareness that is so vital to humanity in this day and age.” ~Snatam Kaur
Her sound is hailed world-wide as haunting, hypnotic, healing and majestic, while her voice communicates so much humanity. Simrit was born into a lineage of Greek women singers, with her great grandmother being the Greek beloved Tula Demetriou. Simrit was born in Athens, Greece to the 17-year-old grand daughter of Tula Demetriou, and at just over a year old, was adopted by another Greek family to be raised in South Carolina.
Simrit is a student, practitioner and certified teacher of Kundalini and Naad Yoga (the sciences of sound and consciousness). Her yoga of the voice and sound course, ‘The Supreme Sound’, has been highly acclaimed worldwide. She records, composes and produces music, and tours with her band giving concerts and workshops across the globe.
7:00 PM ~ Freedom
Freedom is a Singer Songwriter
from the Northland.
His Music is Medicine.
Undefinable.
Full With Potent Poetry of
Substance and Relevance.
Good for the Soul.
He Will Be Joined By His
Blood Brother : Joshua Wellington
and Long Time Collaborator :
Al Song Wolf Torre
Come Be Witness.
5:15 PM ~ Zahira
Canadian performing artist Zahira is an internationally known vocalist, songwriter and musician who lights up each stage she performs on. Her music is original Soul/Pop/Reggae infused with lyrics of truth and positivity. Zahira and her band join together to inspire people to be strong and positive amongst the transitional times of the world today. Zahira’s pure and powerful voice ranges from alto to high soprano, and her unconventional, wide-ranging style has a transformational impact on her listeners. Aside from her native language English, she has written and performs songs in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Spanish, French, and indigenous languages in an effort to share her message with the world. Zahira has toured to Israel, Mexico, Canada, Dominican Republic, Bali and many other diverse places. She has worked with a number of globally renowned artists, including Sly & Robbie, Red Fox, Bibi McGill (Lead Guitar/Music Director @ Beyonce), KRS-One & Luciano.
11:00 PM ~ Elijah Ray
A prodigious composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist and spiritual teacher, Elijah Ray is known for his pioneering heart and transformational music that crosses a wide scope of genres…from funky, danceable tunes and soul-moving ballads, to sound healing and emotionally evocative soundtracks. His shining presence, gritty soul, and message of love invite the listener into an experience of what it is to be an awakening human. His spiritual messages of authenticity and the power of community have transformed audiences internationally, and many are calling his music the “soundtrack of the awakening.” Both mystical and raw, Elijah’s charisma and musical prowess draws his audience into life’s nectar–spiritual, sexy, sweaty, gritty, and ecstatic. Elijah has single handedly crafted a full band sound on most of his “Band of Light” albums, playing most of the instruments and arranging many of the tracks himself.