Music artists & Schedule 2019

Yaima

Yaima is a Seattle Based world influenced downtempo folk-tronic music project. They are an elemental & Alchemical Electronic Duo, together since 2014. Creating a finely tuned container for their audience, members- Masaru Higasa (Guitar, flutes, handpan) and Pepper Proud (guitar & vocals) weave an intricate and soothing musical journey, traversing sensually stimulating and heart centered compositions deeply inspiring each listener to return to their truth. These soundscapes carry a familiar yet ancient tune- A truly enchanted experience...

yaimamusic.com

ALIA

ALIA is an internationally respected Electronic Music Producer, DJ, Vocalist, and Producer of the Feminine Medicine™ Project based in the San Francisco area. Inspired by the global bass movement, her music is an evocative, lush journey into her own blend of bass-heavy electronic dance beats, melodic frequencies, gorgeous feminine voices, conscious lyrics, and sacred psychedelic sounds. Described as feminine and fierce, elegant and gritty, ethereal and primal, her music unfolds in a pulsing, hypnotic journey that moves both bodies and hearts.

ALIA has performed at respected international festivals and conscious events including Wanderlust Festival, Envision Festival, Lucidity Festival, Enchanted Forest, and Beloved to name a few, where she has shared the bill with world-renowned
artists such as Beats Antique, Bassnectar, Emancipator, Phutureprimitive, The Polish Ambassador,
The Desert Dwellers, CloZee, Deya Dova, and many more.
For 10 years ALIA has played at dance hubs around the world and has been a long-time resident DJ for the thriving global movement, Ecstatic Dance. Her original music is featured on the soundtrack to the popular documentary, "The Bloom Series”.
ALIA is the visionary behind Feminine Medicine™, a series of collaborative albums and stage shows that brings more feminine voices to the dance floor. So far she has collaborated with over 30 artists for the albums and the stage shows. So far she released “Feminine Medicine Volume 1” “Feminine Medicine Volume 1 Remixes”. Volume 2 is in production~ release in 2019.

EDMTunes.com said, “ALIA is paving the way for women in the conscious electronic music world” and ALIA was named a "Woman Changing the Planet" by ORIGIN magazine.
ALIA is a mentor to other women leaders through her private mentoring program, Revolutionary Woman, and she is CEO of her women's empowerment company, Femvolution™.

Website: www.aliafrequency.com Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/aliafrequency

Hope Medford

Hope Medford is the hand drummer for world roots rock band, Medicine for the People (Nahko.com) since 2007. She has been playing percussion for over twenty years, the djembe and bajo cajon are her main instruments. Her first teacher was Babatunde Olatunje, and she has studied with master drummers in West Africa, Peru & Brazil.
As she has explored her own voice in her solo music, her style is a fusion of these many cultures and influences. Multilayers of world percussion instruments blended with powerful female voices meant to soothe and inspire.

She has produced 3 solo albums~ Back to the Mother, Purify, & Bring to Light.
Her newest musical project is CedarWing, a feminine trio which electrifies the stage.
Hope is an environmental activist, co-founding a permaculture education farm in Oregon, she has worked to support women and families, having helped deliver over 400 babies as a midwife, and she loves to share music as a form of empowerment and healing for youth, having facilitated drum circles for over 2,500 participants.
hopemedford.com

SaraTone

SaraTone has been dedicated to bringing a steady stream of music that expresses
the Joy’s and Celebration of Creation. Deeply inspired by Gaia, she finds fuel for the fire of this expression through Vigilance and Awareness of the state of the Earth and our Relationship to Land. Inspired by her travels and tours throughout the West Coast, Cascadia, B.C., Minnesota, Hawaii and beyond.
Sara Tone comes with Songs, Stories and a curious, reverent nature to help connect Community through Music and deepen our Sacred Relationship with Land, with Gaia,with Creation, with life and with each other!
Sara has been blessed with many opportunities to share this music in a diversity of settings.

This music is always an opportunity to Give Thanks and bring us that much more Close Together!
Thank you Gaia!! G4G!!

Kumu Ehulani Stephany

Kumu Hula Ali'i Kahuna Nui, hula teacher and high priestess, here in Puna Hawai'i. I've been teaching hula for about 26 years, and specialize in hula kahiko, the ancient hula, and chants. I've had the honor and privilege to study with 14 different hula masters, developing my own style with combining the different style's and teachings of my hula teachers.

It is a great honor and pleasure to share some of my teachings with the people of the ManaFest

hawaiianhuladance.com

Mary Isis

Mary Isis sings her visionary heart songs in the spirit of ceremony, with prayers to heal, awaken consciousness, uplift and empower those who listen. Her lyrical and melodic expressions of the universal human experience embraces the mystical and inspires remembrance of our true purpose and meaning in Life. Big Island Hawaii (Puna) has been her home for most of her life, yet she continues to travel far and wide, sharing her musical medicine in festivals, spiritual communities, tribal gatherings, song circles, private retreats, charity events and healing ceremonies. She is primarily based in Northern California where she produces her music healing botanicals and other sacred arts.

Check out her most recent album release, "There's no Place like Om," a healing, worldly sound journey with Vedic mantraand inspired prayers & compositions.
Learn more on her website : www.maryisismusic.com

CedarWing

This powerful trio creates feminine soul folk ~ soothing vocals, sophisticated strings, and a beat that makes you dance. Their sound is a woven tapestry of three part harmonies and powerful rhythms offering a message of healing and upliftment. Their unique instrumentation of guitar, banjo, hand percussion, and Cajon gives a worldly yet familiar feel. Each woman is an independent songwriter and performer, Inspired by the path of music as medicine. When they collaborate their skill and experience on stage is electric.
Aradhana Silvermoon- Vox, acoustic guitar
Hope Medford- Vox, percussion, Cajon
Robin Lewis-Vox, banjo, electric guitar

Ku'ulei Music

Ku’ulei Perreira – Keawekane is a musician who is rooted in mauli Hawai’i. She is a firm believer that
musicianship comes with the role and responsibility to create movement among listeners in order to generate positive social change. Kuʻulei was born in Hilo and raised in Panaʻewa and Keaukaha, Hawaiʻi. She speaks fluent Hawaiian and enjoys working with her community. In the past, she has taught ukulele lessons to Panaʻewa youth through a program that was sponsored by the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children Center. Kuʻulei is actively participating in native Hawaiian programs by teaching young students about the relationship between Aloha ʻĀina ʻOiaʻiʻo, their connection to themselves, their families, and their communities, and Native Hawaiian Health. Kuʻulei’s most recent work includes the composition of a song found in the Ka Leo o ka Lāhui newspaperʻs February 21, 1893 article, entitled Mele no ka Puni Lilelile, which touches upon the wealth of indigenous knowledge and its application to political and social justice. In the future, Kuʻulei hopes to develop curriculum for school-aged children using songs like Mele no ka Puni Lilelile to activate their central understanding of self-worth through the perpetuation of Hawaiian knowledge.

Radically shifting kanaka consciousness to ignite systemic change -
one manaʻo at a time.
#kamana`ookalā
www.kuuleimusic.wordpress.com

Moonfire

My primary focus while offering music is fun. I play music that moves your feet from around the world.
I like to take the dancers on a mind expanding journey through a multifaceted soundscape.
Exploring many different genres that are all linked together through a deep bass line and seasoned with wild organic instrumental accents such as flutes drumming and chanting.

Ascension Alchemy

Ascension Alchemy Ascend and transcend with organic roots vibrations! Five rhythms inspired, indigenous West African, Latin and Asian influenced, Icaro infused deep groove prayers... to open, transform and alchemize our bodies and souls! Dr. Unity Nguyen, Aimryta Archer, Dr. Chris Love Inski, Seth Robinson, Erik Avery

Ydine

Ydine is a soulful songstress based out of Hawaii.
She performs throughout the islands as a solo artist and with her band AnOtherEvolution,
an ever-evolving ensemble of local musicians.
The beautiful compilation of a Cuban mother and Norwegian father, Ydine has cultivated a uniquely diverse musical style that cannot be defined by any particular genre.
Her family origins and experiences thus far, such as sailing extensively throughout the South Pacific, traveling abroad, and living on farms throughout Hawaii, have heavily influenced all aspects of her music. Her lyrical poetry calls upon humanity to reach its fullest potential: to preserve our delicate ecosystems for future generations, to cultivate empathy and hold space in our hearts for those around us, and to go through this life fostering inquisitive and inspiring minds.

Ok2Change

Imani and Jay met in 2009, working for a variety of environmental and human rights campaigns in California. Music had always been secondary to work they were involved with until a move to Big Island in 2016 sparked Ok2Change. With Imani on vocals, Jay on guitar, and a host of other musicians in support, Ok2change is a blend of folk and hip hop meant to inspire meaningful change within hearts and communities and to make music that connects us.

Kaahele

Kaahele is a Hawaiian word for “Journey” and the musical name of Kelly Hyde. Her lyrics are clever, uplifting, and comical, bringing awareness and at the same time making light of the human situation. Her music covers an array of folk, reggae, bluegrass, and her own special flavor. Kaahele speaks to the separation between the modern and natural world. She represents nomadic culture, and reaching out to those who could use a fresh point of view. Her songs are full of food for thought, and her melodies are soothing and creative. Listeners may feel inclined to laugh or be brought to tears.
“Kaahele’s passion and talent are reflected in her original musical arrangements. Her powerful lyrics and ideas empowering others to consider simple changes and broad concepts to help be part of the solution and not the pollution. She paints the picture bridging humans nature with nature, sung from the depth of her soul. Her music makes a difference
in the world as she continues to spread wisdom words. Listen and be inspired."
- Donna Maltz of “Soil to Soul Solutions”

Diane Patterson

Since 1990, wordsmith Patterson weaves spirit and unifying social commentary, now around the world, on festival stages, at folk music and conscious music gatherings, healing gatherings and in concert venues of Southern Oregon and Northern California, in Hawaii every winter for the last nine years, in Europe summers of 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2016, and December 2012 in Mexico for Synthesis Festival! Based in Southern Oregon, independent and supported by her community, Diane considers herself a micro magical munition of manifesting: nature consciousness, cleanest food for body and mind, best balance and highest integrity of relations between all Beings.

Priscilla Momah

Priscilla Momah is a soulful song weaver inspired by the healing powers of music. She translates her journey of growth through rhythm and poetry to invoke ancestral connection and divinity through self-love.. Originally from Minnesota, Priscilla continues to spread her tranquil stylings throughout the Midwest and the Big Island of Hawaii. Her selections of antidotal soul music has reached the ears of Flow Fest, Project Earth, The Full Eclipse Apex Gather, FEMN Fest attendees throughout the Twin Cities, Ohio and the Big Island of Hawaii. In early 2017 Priscilla started a collective called Heartbeat Instrumental creating a platform for melanated Kings and Queens to share healing arts through the expression of music, art and wisdom share. She continues to walk in her truth inspiring Kings and Queens to take their throne and activate in their unique expression of light.

Watch her video: https://youtu.be/zozm1FRMPQY

In The Sticks: Drum Dance Collective

We are an afro sassy drum/dance collective and high energy performance troupe
from the Slocan Valley, British Columbia.
At the core of our collective, strongly stands a circle of women (mamas, sisters, daughters),
who believein empowerment and healing, through simple and healthy living, balanced
and just relations, Love, Integrity and Strength.
We are predominantly inspired by the folk stories and drum/ dance traditions
from the culturally rich regions of West Africa.
We focus on the traditional drums known as the dununs and often play in a stand up style using sticks,
with full power dance choreographies focused around the drum.
We are especially motivated on weaving these traditions into a more relevant and present day
tapestry for ourselves and each other, one that can embody messages for our modern times.
We sound these themes with strength and joy, through drumming, dancing, theatrics, song and spoken word.

Faye Adinda

Faye Adinda is a soulful singer/songwriter, creating songs from her heart.
Her music vocalizes a personal journey of finding love and healing. You will find yourself easily inspired and enchanted by her catchy empowering lyrics, upbeat rhythms and melodic vocals.

She is excited to be returning to MAnaFest for the third year.

Watch her video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9oWLIosvlM

Sierra Marin

Sierra Marin is a conscious musician playing folk reggae music with a touch of hip hop.
She seeks to inspire as many people as she can to remember their divinity and perfection, and the power of unconditional love. Sierra sings for a return to the ancient ways involving community and reverence for the earth.
We are the ones we've been waiting for!

Off The Grid

Off The Grid Music Is Tiana Malone Jennings on vocals and ukulele, and Hawk Devi on violin. With the help of looper and effects pedals they create a full band sound with their dynamic music and progressive lyrics. Powerful vocals, and tremendous skill on the violin, playing traditional Hawaiian music to Pop & Roots Reggae this powerful duo sure has a lot of fun!

Tiana Malone Jennings is a Multi-Genre Singer-Songwriter, Tiana Malone Jennings started her musical journey early born to a musical family she was playing bass, guitar and piano by age 5. Working hard in College to finish her degree, she found herself on an unexpected journey to Hawaii. Living with a mesh of worldly cultures & eclectic musicians who are neighbors to the Volcano Goddess Pele, has been a humbling, soul-growing experience reflected through her music. Also an energy worker, she tunes to ancient solfeggio frequencies known to be healing. Tiana & Off The Grid are winners of many Hawaiian musical awards, and Hoku nominations. Recently she worked on a project that got on the preliminary round for the Grammy Awards!

Hawk Devi was performing classical music by the time she was 6 years old, performing through Japan, where she lived until the age of 12. In her early 20’s she traveled through Europe, playing on the streets and listening to jazz. Returning to the US, she co-founded a improv group, the Connection. Hawk performed and created music with the Connection for 12 years in Baltimore Md. Then Hawk moved with her family to Hawaii, where she plays and performs with several bands. Hawk has been a mediator for 30 years, performs an ancient ritual called Agnihotra that purifies the atmosphere, and is a Reiki Master and a Deeksha giver.

Maya Elena

Maya Elena is a songwriter and singer from Minneapolis MN.
Her lyrics are rooted in restorative justice and transmuting pain into power, darkness into light, and struggle into beauty. The acoustic guitar work resembles folk fingerpicking and exuberant strumming patterns of jazz and rock influence. She performs as her solo act, Maya Elena, with her 4-piece rock band, Illusion Valley, and sings & tours with Wookiefoot, as featured on "The Road" and "You're It".
A serving of folk, a dash of jazz, and a sprinkle of sass!

Shoshana B of NectarFari

Shoshana B, lead singer of the band Nectarfari weaves together positive uplifting lyrics with a blend of original roots reggae, mantra, spoken word and soulful grooves. As well as being a kirtan singer, she has sang in the 4-Word reggae band for many years sharing the stage with some of the reggae greats. She’s performed with acts such as Israel Vibrations, Joseph Hill of Culture, Burning Spear, The Wailers, Midnite, Desiree, The Abbyssinians and more. Shoshana B’s music is inspired from this wellspring of roots and culture,
bringing a spirit of devotion and a message of oneness.
She guides listeners on a sacred soulful sound journey back to the wisdom of our heart centered selves.

Omra

Omra is a Big Island resident since 1994. Her creativity is endless, and her musicianship has expanded from songstress to electronic producer. She works as a Visionary Artist, Singer/ Songwriter, and is a clothing designer for her yoga/ dancewear line, Omra Organics. You can find her artwork at Heartist, giclees, Visions Oracle Cards collection and prints, on the Bayfront in Hilo HI. She also has a shop/studo on the bayfront with her clothing, at 144 Kamehameha ave, Hilo Bayfront. You can visit her online store on Etsy.com/shop/omra. Omra also practices healing arts, leads singing circles, cacao circles, and other ceremonies as well.

You can see her other offerings and blogs at Omra.space

Shanin Blake

Shanin Blake is a self taught singer/songwriter since age 16. Her free spirit has lead her to sing worldwide in countries like South Africa, Europe and Costa Rica. After living in the rural jungles of Costa Rica on a farm with her 6 yr old daughter, Shanin decided it was time to move back to the states and found a place in LA to pursue her dreams of music.

Shanin’s music is an acoustic wonderland that consists of tasteful guitar and ukulele conpositions, weaved with her soulful, falsetto vocals. Shanin Blake uses her music to promote positivity, awareness and love through catchy melodies.

In May 2017, Shanin Blake launched a kickstarter raising $10k to fund her first independent album, ‘Soul Child’.
‘Soul Child’ was realeased 02•22 of this year and is available on most music platforms.
Website www.shaninblake.com
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0sPLIcpwzNwI8GZMcnCdYp?si=Sjo8TzEMTN2TwLn5g3Wm6Q

India Music Hawaii Band

Kazume, dancer.

India Music Hawai‘i Band has been performing on the Big Island and O‘ahu for many years in venues from yoga studios to major festivals. Although the traditional sounds of improvisational Indian Raga and folksongs are the mainstay of the band music, original fusion pieces combining blues and Himalayan themes, dance compositions and interwoven Hindustani
storytelling make for a unique experience.
Laurie Kali performs with a 22-string slide veena, an instrument similar to the Indian sitar and Hawaiian lap steel guitar. Laurie also plays the ancient 39-string Indian sarangi. She has classical training in Indian and South Asian Music.
Deborah Masterson, plays Korean changgo as well as wooden flutes to accompany. She is an Advanced TaKeTiNa Rhythm Teacher, has had a long association with the Halla Huhm Korean Dance studio in Honolulu. Her 30-year exploration of rhythm in its many forms includes West African dundun, Cuban and Congolese congas, dumbek, and frame drum.
Deborah and Laurie currently offer workshops in Hawaii.

They will be joined at MAnaFest by Isra Kadjira Chengi dancing and Joanne Garrigan on tempura.

Sarah Beth & BanDaLari

Sarah Bethany is excited to share a fresh new sound created with Marcio Roberto DaLari and Matt Spencer. A native Brazilian, Marcio is coming to Hawai'i for a 7 week tour and Sarah put together this opportunity to include Marcio along with her bass player Matt for a special performance at the 2019 MAnaFest. Sarah will be expressing herself through heavily Brazilian influenced Latin and world music blended with Matthew's authentic Cuban artistry and Mr. DaLari's indigenous percussion.