MUSIC & TALENT
2024 PERFORMERS
Bad River Youth Drum
Eliza Thorp
Northern Michigan based Singer/Songwriter, Eliza Thorp, has been weaving stories and finding home in the warmth of the Mitten music family. She writes songs about dreamers, her community and growing up with a wild heart. A Berklee Alumni, with a voice married to the piano notes, Thorp has been known to bring the raucousness of a basement party to a reflective silence with only a few verses.
Ellie + Haley: Sound Bath
Sound Healers Haley Benson and Ellie Esford both discovered their love of sound healing during their 200 hour Yoga teacher training in 2019. While they have enjoyed collecting their own instruments and playing solo, they quickly realized that playing together brought an added layer of magic to the power of sound. They have a particular love for leading meditation and sound healing experiences in nature where the sounds of the Earth and the instruments can come together in harmony.
Eoin Small & Sunni Leilani
Eóin Small is a singer/songwriter, multimedia artist, activist & community organizer living nomadically on the ancestral homelands of Dakota & Anishinaabe people in what has come to be called Minnesota and the broader “Midwest”. Much of Eoin’s work centers on climate justice & supporting indigenous-led movements against extractive industry.
Eoin’s contemporary indie/folk music infuses his experiences in movement spaces with lyrical themes of anger, love, calls for justice, guidance and healing with the occasional romantic interlude. Standing for Water Rights & Earth Rights; Sunni Leilani’s Community Stretches Across Turtle Island,
Extending to the Various Places & Lands She Calls Home,
Along With Their Indigenous Peoples.
After Spending Approximately 5 - 6 Months In Standing Rock,
She Started a Self Funded & Self Sustained,
Ancient Love Story Journey & Tour
Across Turtle Island & the Hawaiian Islands,
Collecting Sharing Documenting Witnessing & Communing With Indigenous Peoples
https://sunnileilani.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-love-story
Michelle Chenard
Michelle Chenard is a Michigan Emmy® Award Winning Songwriter and performing music artist who has been continually voted a favorite in Northern Michigan as Best Solo Performer, Best of the Best and more in Northern Express, Northern Michigan’s largest newsweekly. Michelle scored a Michigan Emmy® Award for musical score on the TV documentary Sacrifice and Honor: A Tribute to our Northern Michigan Veterans. She continually performs hundreds of shows across the state each year, including some of the most well known Music Festivals in Michigan.
SETH BERNARD
Music Maker. Water Protector.
Founder and Co-Executive Director of Title Track, working for clean water, racial equity and youth empowerment.
Founder of Earthwork Music, encouraging community healing through collective musicianship, and the Earthwork Harvest Gathering, a celebrated annual cultural that takes place on the family farm where I grew up.