Def-I

Diné artist 'Def-i' continues to carve out an original niche from introspective and poetic Hip-Hop. Hailing from Albuquerque, NM and emerging from the underground indy rap circuit, Def-i’s eclectic repertoire has provided him with much success and opportunity. Def-i's new album 'Water Edges' releases on Friday, August 19th 2022! less

Po.10.Cee

Po.10.Cee (potency), is a Native American hip hop group based in Taos, New Mexico.
Inspired by the mid 90's golden era their sound is versatile; a mixture of soul and hip hop with a Native American influence. The group began producing beats, writing rhymes, recording, and promoting in 2004. Through comedic raps and melodic vocals, they convey political and controversial messages, while also promoting their movement of truth, art, and unity.

Aaron Hale

Aaron Hale is a classically trained (Oklahoma State University), multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.
Upon the release of his debut album “Wildflowers & Atom Bombs” in 2017; Hale began performing with and without his band (Aaron Hale & The Human Beings) at music festivals nation wide taking with him a strong message of environmental stewardship, Native American Sovereignty, and global unity.

Hale Creek Singers

Finger Jane

FingerJane is a Waco born post punk indie rock band that has been in constant evolution since 2013. Founded originally as an all girl band inspired by Hole, and 4 Non Blondes, the bands progressive sound merges roots reggae elements with catchy hooks immersed in 90s grunge riot girl notions of feminism. Currently FingerJane has a new single hitting the Austin air wave called, “Pretty”. Members include James Delgatty on lead guitar, known for his passion for music and eclectic drive his induction into this group of experimental fusion styles with FingerJane was natural. Tyler “Nudlz” Putnam is currently the rock that holds down the groove, as his own flare and style adds all the energy behind other band. Isis Lee is currently the founding member responsible for all originals, and who has spent her time studying music at McLennan Community College and has successfully obtained a liberal arts degree, a music industry business management certification, and is currently pursuing her academic endeavors at Texas Tech University with a focus in Women’s and gender studies, political science, and psychology. Goals for FingerJane include a tour to promote the album called “Whisper of a Dove, Howl of a Wolf”, and as the band is looking forward to celebrating life by with the launch their first album happening this fall.

Treaphort

Treaphort's sound cultivates a positive, uplifting and present space through organic electronic sound. Vibrations of meditative patterning bring the listener to a platform of direct experience while maintaining a playfully light vibe.

Sierra Marin

Sierra Marin comes from Carlsbad, Ca and has been playing music since she was 9 years old.  After receiving her Bachelor's degree at UC Santa Barbara in Psychology and Indigenous Studies, Sierra realized that  working toward something that she did not believe in support of a corrupt system in need of change was completely contrary to who she was. So after college she hit the road. Finding much of her roots in street performing, she travelled the U.S. for two years entirely supported by  her income from playing at markets and on street corners. She experienced first hand the incredible power of intentional music to empower and heal humanity.   Sierra uses her voice to speak for the Earth mother, for the ascension of humanity into a state of harmony. She speaks for the revolution of unconditional love which begins within and ripples out into this world. She speaks of the importance of community, permaculture, and symbiotic innovation for the betterment of all. Performing as a live looping multi-instrumentalist Sierra weaves and layers sounds to create a soundscape of activating music. When she is not looping, She and her band The Shepherds of Ascension  collectively create a powerful movement of sound and melody strong enough to move the hearts and bodies of the many. 

Chances R Good

chancesrgood. born where nasa ships ships.he got his first recorder wen he was 19. shaved his head in taos nm.traveld recorded .shaved his head again in Rva. wen he was 24.traveled recorded met the cheif wen he was 27.recorded traveled shaved his head at 32 in crestone. where he eats and sleeps at 8000ft with Annmarie...
love to the waters and all who need it. 2/20/15 crg

Miraja

MIRAJA is an electronic music DJ & Producer who weaves together psychedelic, dub-inspired, bass-heavy, tribal soundscapes that take the listener on a blissful journey into the soul. Whether at a yoga class or an exhilarating dance floor, his electroshamanic fusion of Ancient World Rhythms blended with Downtempo, Glitch Hop, House, Dubstep, Trap, and Global Bass transports dancers to other-worldly imaginative musical realms. His dynamic onstage energy and diverse sets have rocked clubs and festival stages from the underground to the stars and beyond.

Sanji

Magnetik Moon

Maggi Schultheis, Magnetik Moon, has paved her way in the Colorado music and arts scene. After establishing roots in Atlanta and Denver she has allocated a particular blend of tribal bass, deep dubstep, drum and bass, breaks and bass house. Magnetik’s music blends melodic, chanty tribal bass with hard hitting drums mixed with deep harmonic synths and bouncy basslines. Her live shows generate a full experience with dance and flow performances with her tribe. She is director of Gold Dust Tribe, a performance art group that cultivates art through sound, sacred movement and vision. Gold Dust brings a powerful delivery of tribal bellydance, hip hop, tutts and flow artistry.

Don Diego and Isabel

Passionate lovers of life, Don Diego and Isabel bring joy wherever they go. With songs of love, transformation and freedom, their music catalyzes sacred and spontaneous celebration!

Don Diego is an international troubadour, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of The Rainbow Gypsy Theatre, a vaudevillian musical traveling show that has been featured at music festivals, renaissance festivals, state fairs, county fairs, loading docks and laundromats worldwide. Isabel is a performance artist, activist, clown and singer of songs in more than eight languages. Together, their sweet harmonies and abundant humor captivate audiences of all ages. Seamlessly blending exotic old-world gypsy music, hippie rock, original heartsongs, participatory theater and the universal language of laughter, Don Diego and Isabel will stir your “inner gypsy” and get you on your feet, singing and dancing!

Don Diego has performed with Michael Franti, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters, Peter Yarrow, Trombone Shorty, Glen David Andrews, Willie Nelson, Vince Welnick, David Allen Coe, Rita Marley, Ram Dass, Stephen Gaskin, Artis the Spoonman, and Marcia Ball, among others. Together they have performed with Jah Levi, Fantuzzi, Shimshai, Tina Malia, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, and many more.

Roo

Taos Based electronic hardware producer, explores dark and synth tech sounds.

Einida Eleven

Elijah Garcia aka Einida Eleven is a Texas native but a Colorado transplant of over 20 years. His passion is to deliver vibrational medicine in the form of musical frequencies! His eclectic collection of rich organic sounds coupled together with those stimulating electric frequencies are sure to revive your soul and move your feet! World, tribal, downtempo storytelling sounds of our ancestral past, present and future! Join the ritual dance, awaken memories from the past! Love abundant!

Bri of the Light

Bri of the Light is a heart-centered medicine musician, fiercely dedicated to using her gifts to manifest the New Earth. Bri's heart songs inspire growth, increase awareness, incept truth and integrate the idea of oneness. She is grateful to serve, focused upon the goal of ascension through personal work supported by vibrational repatterning. She holds a strong vision of a future of unity and harmony together with all of life, using songs as bridges to that sacred future and intentional presence in the moment as the stepping stone. The time is now for our rising, become the change- witness the shift.

All Aboard Earth

Psilosapiens

Coop Mahndala and Stefan Surfs together create the Psilosapiens, and eclectic live-looping hip hop group, fusing ancient and future. They hope to inspire people to reconnect to the earth, remember their peaceful warrior nature, and to overall stay silly, sacred, sexy, and savage! A lot of their performance is live improv, channeling the energy of the space and moment. Be ready to have your booty chakra activated and your spirits invigorated and inspired!

Karavan Sarai

Karavan Sarai has performed at large festivals such as Bali Spirit Festival in Indonesia, Spirit of Tengri in Kazakhstan, and Lightning in a Bottle in California as well as cultural art centers including Makan in Egypt & CoSM (Alex Grey) in New York. Also igniting the underground music scenes of Cairo to Turkey with our mystical music.

Coop Mandhala

Coopmahndala blends soulful, acoustic medicine music with live improvised looping. His music was a gift given to him by something greater (some call it spirit, or source, or god) in times of pain and worry to bring him back to a place of peace and joy. He offers these gifts of songs back to the people in hopes that hearts will be opened, strengths will be returned, and spirits will be uplifted.

Onda Cosmica

Onda Cosmica is a Latin Reggae and Cumbia band based out of Austin, Texas with music that shares life stories and culture enclosed in the form of song

Salamander Collective

The Salamander Collective is an improvisational collaborative musical experience made up of a few core members who curate and set the tone for an inclusive and transformative jam, welcoming members of the community to participate and share their authentic self - all in service to the present moment!

The Quijano Wood Family Band

The Quijano Wood Family Band is the musical manifestation of Megan Wood, Robert Quijano, and their faerie brood: Ora (4yrs) and Arrow (2yrs)! Lured to Taos, NM in a cosmic plot to welcome these wildling jester-spirits, Megan & Robert now lead the ensemble through a whirling swath of songs and tunes, new and old, from the deep wells of underground Country and so-called Folk music, to original songs of interwoven harmony and jazzy fingerstyle guitar!

Daniel Sage

Daniel Sage is a musician in love with the galactic universe, energy and vibration. His work deals with other dimensions, wilderness, and sticky situations. provocative, satisfying tapestries of life and crafted utopias are created as he uses a loop station to weave in and out of songs, poems, monologues, and movement. Heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, and Kurt Cobain, Sage’s style is strikingly decadent and psychedelically street worthy. His work has consistently taken technical and philosophical risks, establishing Sage as a leader in the realm of underground semi-discovered phenomenon. His first LP “Astronaut“ (2010) caught the attention of grammy winning producer John Hampton (White Stripes, Replacements, Stevie Ray Vaughn) at Ardent Studios in Memphis TN, eventually following it up with “Wildlife” (2014). John Hampton would die less than a year after playing drums and producing the record, and before he did, had this to say:

Divina Sound

A variation of style in music, including folk, reggae, tribal, hip hop, and soft etherial songs that carry a message of love, healing and of returning to the earth and indigenous practices.

Frank

FrAnk is a songwriter based in Taos, New Mexico. His ethnic American folk music travels through space and time and attempts to bridge the continental divide.

Link to music:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZYp1LFZM6lyHGDaZq9Stp

B47ance

B47ANCE takes an experiential approach with his music, aiming to take the audience on a journey of expression. He enjoys the unique result of blending genres, and appealing to what people are familiar with yet pushing boundaries at the same time.

To connect with the audience and guide them into a deeper flow state is one of the goals. With his roots in open format, B47ANCE loves to freestyle so that the true vibration of the moment can be taken advantage of. B47ANCE keeps the dance floor moving while connecting the audience to a deeper part of their emotions.

No matter the scene, B47ANCE strives to include anything mystical and magical. To awaken people to their true self through music is the mission.

A sound healer who studies the power of certain frequencies and harmonics, B47ANCE aims to help the world remember that we don’t go to shows just to party, we also go to shows to heal ourselves and the world.

Feather Wind

Feather Wind will captivate you with her soulful voice and lyrics from the heart. She is a nomadic light being spreading her music to the hearts of the world. Singer songwriter/ ukulele player

Luna Slater

Indie Rock/ folk singer songwriter with a compilation of original songs and some covers. At this festival Luna will probably only be playing originals. Her songs have lots of emotion and range from moods that are sexy, tragic, political, humorous, dark and sweet.

James Frances III

James Francis III (conscious folk singer/ songwriter traveling the world to connect through music)

Tiggs

Tiggums The Great. Soothsayer, and bard. Based out of a bus in the Chihuahua desert. Versed in the arts of Jambanding, fire spinning, and bar spitting. 100% down for a good time and prepared to blow your mind.

Shaunti

Sol Cloud

Nada Brahmananda

A sonic mystic and singer/songwriter, Nada Brahmananda travels the world

sharing expressions of love through ceremony, kirtan, and workshops. Nada’s

practice centers on devotional medicine songs that weave chant and mantra

across traditions, highlighting commonalities that evoke the spirit of loving

service found in the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba.

SamOurEye

SamOurEye is a live looping electronic enable that blends world influenced percussion and instruments with deep bass elements. 

Mama Breeze

Mama Breeze brings that old school funky hip-hop swag with a refreshing positive twist. Immerse yourself in her love-splashed, deep-rooted mama vibes and open to the messages within.

RedTale & The Dome Gnomes

Musical - songs, improv, dance music, sing-alongs, ballads. We like funk to folk, rock to hip hop, with heart and soul. RedTale and the Dome Gnomes emerged from the geodesic desert domes of sacred Sonoran medicine land outside of Tucson, AZ. The caravan collective has played out and morphed shape from stage to street to varieties of venues. 

We love to pursue the muse through improv, group singing, synchronized movement, sharing verses, and embracing new gnomes and fae-folk among our party as we circle up and chant as a choir choruses of mantra-messages, anchoring common intent via cohesive expression.

We look forward to communing with you, fellow Dome Gnome, hugging it out and singing the sound of “welcome home.”

Christina Knighten

Christina Knighten is a singer-songwriter sharing songs that soothe and uplift. Her album, “Love Liberates," weaves stories of love, change and reflections on life and beyond, allowing for feeling and healing.

Cory Simmons

Cory forged his life-changing relationship with guitar early on. After a transformative experience at Envision music festival in 2015, Cory understood that his connection with guitar and music as a whole would formulate the basis of his career. 

Cory’s music is melodic and soulful, inspired by his own life experiences including the hardships that he endured while growing up. Cory ties his lyrical insights together with a vast array of melodic sounds and meaningful rhythms that tug at the soul-strings of his audiences. 

Daniel Wander

Daniel Wander is a world-traveled, Rocky Mountain based singer-songwriter. His genre-fluid, all-original sound is influenced by Americana folk, island roots & soul, classic rock, and a little bit of country gospel. Daniel's music is inextricable from his lived experience - his tunes tell true tales of a colorful world that most folks believe died alongside the Summer of Love. Not so...

Armed with an arsenal of guitars, an all-star crew of collaborators, and deep musical chops earned over a decade on the rambling road, Daniel sings to revive hope in the human spirit, offer sonic medicine for weathered hearts, and of course - get people up on their feet and dancing!

Nick Lytle

Nick Lytle is a multi-instrumental loop artist from Lincoln Nebraska with a unique style that dances on the edge of folk and reggae with a taste of psychedelic electro.

SPXTR

Conscious Hip Hop Artist

Moonstruck Melodies

Moonstruck Melodies is a husband and wife duo offering campfire music, from and for the soul. This couple weaves concepts of past lives, dream-states, and personal experiences into a cozy cradle which carries their lyrically haunting serenades to another world, bringing the audience along for the journey. With simply a ukulele and guitar, these two bring a captivating and potent experience to the table.

The duo has come to believe that this life experience is both physical and spiritual - the latter being a subject that has historically served to divide, rather than connect and collectively unite us. Austin and Sydney are striving, through music and art, to open up the conversation of spirituality and other planes of existence to a more inclusive language that allows all seekers a spot around the fire.

DeepSi

DeepSi has co-created in dynamic original rock bands as a vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Following a path of the heart, DeepSi has explored Kirtan, a form of bhakti yoga which is devotional chant in Sanskrit. This is often sung in call and response or simultaneously in unison and in harmony. The empathic power that Kirtan generates subtly shifts the focus from the self to a more inclusive embrace of All through musical ecstasy.

With pop rock, jazz and Kirtan musical influences the DeepSi album is a unique and powerful collection of inspiring original songs.

Tasty Taylor

“Hailing from Houston TX, Taylor is known for his punchy and unique blues rhythms as well as his beachy original music. While he wears many hats stylistically, he is often compared to Jack White, Sublime, Jack Johnson and CAKE. During a set you can expect anything from blues-funk, jazz swing, bossa nova, surf rock, pop classics, acoustic rap, soul and gospel and much more!

He frequents many festivals as a solo act but he has a Dallas band named “Tasty & The Groovy Snacks” playing a variety of funky tunes that are sure to fill you with sunbeams. ”