Earthwork Music Collective believes in the intrinsic power of music to raise both community and self-awareness. Comprised of musicians, teachers, healers, farmers, water protectors, and community organizers, they encourage cooperation and collaboration, using music as a tool to serve, heal, inspire and empower. Hosted by washboardist-at-large Vince Russo, this monthly series features members from all around MI converging to create cosmic collabs, cultivate lasting relationships with our community, and elevate environmental and social justice movements.
Joe Reilly’s songs are playful, clever, engaging, joyful, and always have something meaningful to say. The core of his message is an invitation to heal our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the earth. Joe’s aspiration is to water seeds of compassion, joy, healing, inclusive community, and peace in our collective consciousness through the sharing of music.
Traveling around in a bright orange 1973 Volkswagen Bus, Nicholas James Thomasma combines stories and songs for a show that can be enjoyed by patrons of all ages, charming audiences with his playful sense of humor and real life stories. Nicholas is also a facilitator at Huco Songs, the Port Austin Artist in Residence Songwriting Retreat Weekend, the Earthwork Songwriters Summit for Resilience, and Wheatland Music Organization's Summer Wheat Music Camp. He curates a songwriter in-the-round concert series called the Songtellers, and is currently the Interim Executive Director for the Michigan Music Alliance.
Sari Brown is a priestess of song, dance, and kitchen magic who curates dreams, facilitates rituals, and cultivates beauty in community. She works in the fertile gaps between cultures and has lived as an anthropological researcher and activist in South America and as a musician and pastor in Michigan. She is equal parts child of Motown, mystical chants, and Andean folkloric dance. Using textured soundscapes and vulnerable storytelling, her songs create holding spaces for healing, self-awareness, and practices of abundant life.
Sari is the founder and director of The Healing Feast, an organization and event series that embodies radical abundance, creativity, and nourishment to promote healing connections with self, others, the earth, and the sacred.
