May 17th ZALON Program

Jan Garrett and J.D. Martin

Jan Garrett & JD Martin are award-winning singer/songwriters who live and create their music in the mountains of Colorado near Aspen. They have been happily married (to each other!) for 25 years, and have been traveling the country singing, playing, speaking, and teaching at Spiritual Centers since 2001. Their music is described as “Rich and intelligent, a velvet-hammer wake-up call as satisfying to the soul as it is to the ear.” Together have written, recorded, and produced 9 albums of original songs, available at their website: www.Garrett-Martin.com, where you can also read all about their colorful musical histories! They are currently producing a series of short videos called “Saturday Songs and Stories,” available on their YouTube channel.

Here is our donation link:   https://paypal.me/JanJD444

And our store page:  https://www.garrett-martin.com/store.html

Steve Sandberg

Steve Sandberg was composer and musical director for Nickelodeon’s landmark children’s programs “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!”.  He leads the Steve Sandberg Quartet, which plays original music that masterfully blends classical, world music and jazz  with the excitement of virtuosic improvisation, and teaches piano and composition online. 

Website: http://stevesandbergmusic.com/

Donation link: paypal.me/stevensandberg1
Steve also enjoys teaching all levels of piano and composition, and has some room in his private studio for new students (teaching remotely, of course.)

stevesandbergmusic.com
stevesandbergstudio.com
stevesandbergcomposer.com

Katherine Skovira

Mezzo-soprano Katherine Skovira co-directs the contemporary music ensemble, SoundLAB, with Music Director Robert Whalen. The Philadelphia Inquirer says of the pair: “The diabolical enthusiasm of Katherine Skovira and Robert Whalen left me nearly begging for mercy…the artistic equivalent of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.” Whalen and Skovira met at Cornell University and completed their doctorates together at the University of Minnesota. They have since collaborated on multiple projects, most recently in Philadelphia to launch the Barnes Ensemble and, later, SoundLAB.SoundLAB is a force for education and creativity, to embrace what is new, and to advocate. Upcoming projects include a new 2021 premiere of the other side of silence using live performers, cutting-edge AI and AAC assistive technology, in alliance with the non-speaking members of our community affected by catastrophic voice loss.

Donate to Katherine via Venmo or PayPal ♥️
Venmo: @ Kat-Skovira

Paypal: via QR Code

Write to Katherine: www.katherineskovira.com  ♥️

Learn more: www.soundlabensemble.com

VocaliD: vocalid.ai

Christopher Stoudt, filmmaker: https://christopher-stoudt.com

Matt & Melissa Dunphy

Matt & Melissa Dunphy will present 18th-century archaeological finds from recent digs under their Philadelphia home, The Hannah Callowhill Stage/The Boghouse.

Composer Melissa Dunphy and ecommerce professional & electronic musician Matt Dunphy are co-hosts of the podcast The Boghouse, which tells the wild story of acquiring a magic theater from a pedophile and discovering archaeological treasure below during renovations. Through their adventures, they research and uncover unexpected Philadelphia history, and connect with the professional archaeology community. They hope to one day reopen the theater as a multi-disciplinary performing arts venue called The Hannah Callowhill Stage.

Learn more at http://boghouse.thehannah.org/
The Hannah Callowhill Stage accepts donations via paypal at melissa@mormolyke.com or Venmo @mormolyke

Treya Lam

Treya Lam is a songwriter, composer and performing artist whose cinematic songs and compositions are built on dynamic piano, ethereal vocals, meditative guitar and lush chamber-folk arrangements. Their debut album Good News was created entirely by womxn – headed by Kaki King who produced and released the record on her label.

Treya is a part of Joe’s Pub Working Group, eco-theatre company Superhero Clubhouse and a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. Lam seeks out extraordinary venues and has performed at MASS MoCA, the Prospect Park Bandshell, American Museum of Natural History, Garfield Park Conservatory and the New York Public Library. Lam is partnering with One Fair Wage to release a music video for Wildhearts on 5.20.20.

Become a monthly supporter at www.patreon.com/treyalam

Venmo: @treyalam

Follow us on social media: 

IG: @treyalam

Facebook: www.facebook.com/treyalam

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qEgXVMkQQ0r9Y–ZLNn4Q

Hear our album Good News: 

Bandcamp: https://treyalam.bandcamp.com/

and all streaming platforms: https://fanlink.to/TreyaLamGoodNews

Jessica Beebe and Mark Livshits

Jessica Beebe has been acclaimed as having “a honey colored tone” and “the most radiant solo singing” by Opera News. She resides with her husband Mark Livshits in Lansdale PA, where they are expecting their first child in June! Both Mark and Jessica frequent the music scene in Philadelphia; Jessica sings in the Grammy award winning choir ‘The Crossing’, she frequents as a soloist with Opera Philadelphia and she sings both early and contemporary music in several chamber ensembles and companies. Mark is a frequent guest with The Philadelphia Orchestra, and works closely with many of their members in chamber settings. He also frequently performs internationally with Deutsche Grammophon artists Ye-Eun Choi, a member of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Jessica and Mark are both so fortunate to be able to perform together, especially during a time when public performances aren’t occurring. Thank you for your generosity!

Please visit Jessica’s website – www.jessicabeebesoprano.com

Facebook – facebook.com/jessicabeebesoprano

Donations

Venmo – @jessicabeebe *preferred

Paypal – flyingsoprano@gmail.com

Daniel Neer and Kit Young

Daniel Neer is a singer-actor, librettist and lyricist currently living in Washington, D.C. His performance credits range from Broadway, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center to The Apollo, National Sawdust and The Guggenheim Museum. He is thrilled to be stretching his performance muscles by exploring “opera improvisation” with Kit Young and the limitless poetry of Emily Dickinson.  danielneer.com

Kit Young, pianist/improviser brings to her music many years of performing collaborations since 1992 with  musicians and theater artists in Thailand, China – and Myanmar where she co-founded a music school Gitameit Music Institute. She returns frequently to Myanmar to perform “sandaya” the Burmese adaptation of traditional music on the piano. 

Shelter-In with Miss Dickinson’s Hymns

(Settings of selected poems by Emily Dickinson)
Daniel Neer, Tenor
Kit Young, Pianist/Devisor

1.
Silence is all we dread.
There’s Ransom in A Voice –
But Silence is Infinity.
Himself have not a face.
2.
Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest Room
If in that Room a Friend await
Felicity or Doom –
3.
This is the place they hoped before,
Where I am hoping now.
The seed of disappointment grew
Within a capsule gay,
Too distant to arrest the feet
that walk this plank of balm,
Before them lies escapeless sea
The way is closed they came.
4.
Our own possessions – though our own –
‘Tis well to hoard anew –
Remembering the Dimensions
Of Possibility
5.
There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of Death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself –

HuDost

The music of HuDost weaves a seamless tapestry of Folk, World and Rock that renders tears and laughter in listeners cultivating the nameless longing that abides somewhere in all our hearts and invoking total celebration. HuDost recently released a new album ‘of Water + Mercy’ that has received rave reviews and as an independent release reached #24 in the BILLBOARD SALES CHARTS for Folk/Americana. It is currently nominated for an Independent Music Award (IMA). HuDost are also committed advocates for ONE (non-profit organization).

Merchandise:

https://hudost.bandcamp.com

https://www.hudost.com/music-store

Subscription Plan: 

https://www.hudost.com/subscribe

Donations

PayPal using hudost@me.com or via Venmo using @hudost