Mike “Biig Miic” Brooks, a Chicago native, is a multi-faceted artist who utilizes his artistry to teach, mentor, and inspire the masses. An innovator who developed the curriculum for his class Hiptronic that he taught for two years at Maranatha Christian Academy. He honed his teaching skills throughout his nine years at Urban Ventures as [...]
Sarina Partridge
Sarina Partridge is a musician, song-leader, educator and activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She feels most alive when learning, creating and sharing songs — especially songs that grow out of time spent in wild places. Sarina sings with a wide variety of music projects: community choir song-leading; singing/ playing with folk trio Heartwood; and performing [...]
Sarah Larsson
Sarah Jagoda Larsson is a performing musician and folklorist devoted to building resources to preserve and celebrate folk tradition. Sarah tours internationally as a vocalist and percussionist in The Nightingale Trio, an ensemble singing contemporary arrangements of Jewish and Slavic women’s music from Eastern Europe. Her music has been called “a revelation” by reviewers, and [...]
Nanilo
Nanilo is Sarina Partridge and Sarah Larsson, a duo of women singing songs of diaspora. Nanilo is a duo of women singing songs of diaspora. Nanilo traces musical lines to tradition from Jewish and Eastern European roots. Singing entirely in the songs’ original languages, including Yiddish, Russian, Ladino, Hebrew, and more, the duo showcases the way music [...]
Chris Keller
Chris Keller is a Minneapolis-based artist, educator, and father dedicated to healing, creativity, and community. Known musically as Kristoff Krane and Kadoka, Chris is a lyricist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist (percussion, guitar, piano), known for his stream-of-consciousness style and improvisational approach. He began his music career as a founding member of Face Candy, an experimental hip-hop [...]
Kashimana Ahua
Kashimana Ahua believes each new day brings a new song from within if we take the moments to write it. She believes that everyone should write songs and after she teaches she envisions leaving a strong community of songwriters ready to share their stories through songwriting. Participants learn to use observation, listening, improvisation, collaborative writing [...]
Garrett Obrycki (g)
Hello! My name is Garrett – I also go by g! Over the past decade, I have had the incredible privilege of performing, producing, and teaching across the globe. I spent 15 years training and working professionally as an opera singer around the United States with companies like Opera Philadelphia, Sarasota Opera, the Prototype Festival [...]
Dylan Fresco
Dylan believes strongly in the inherent value of each person’s interests, talents, stories and ideas. His goal as a teaching artist is to support and inspire students to express themselves creatively, both on their own and in collaboration with each other. In his work, he invites connections between people and communities through story, music, poetry [...]
