Rafe Pearlman started his singing career with the wolves, ravens and sled dogs of the Alaskan wilderness. The wild nature of his exploratory singing has led to performances spanning the globe, from India, Hong Kong, Israel and Germany, to Italy, France, Spain, Australia, Thailand, Mexico and all across the United States.

Rafe’s intention with his music is to inspire a vision of a world in harmony and unity, celebrating diversity, sustainability, and equality for all beings. Sometimes a simple song is all it takes to open a connection.

He is a performer, composer and creative vocal coach.

Highlights of his many years of music making include performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (USA), America’s Got Talent (USA), Festival Internacional (Mexico), Lightning in a Bottle (USA), Burning Man (USA), and Shantipi (Israel).

Collaboration is central to Rafe’s creative process and he’s had the opportunity to work with some amazing performers and composers over the years including William Close and the Earth Harp Collective, touring with the world's largest stringed instrument. Rafe was accompanied by a full orchestra, working with one of Hollywood’s top soundtrack composers, Tyler Bates, at the festival of film composers, “MOSMA,” in Malaga Spain.

Rafe's voice is featured on soundtracks for Netflix, Direct-TV, NBC and Thunder Road Films, and on Sony’s top video games. Rafe will be a new voice on the upcoming season of Motherland: Fort Salem, creating vocal spells for the cast of characters.

Rafe recently was awarded an artist residency at the Orcas Center Theater to create a new evening length show inspired by his childhood in Alaska featuring his music and visual art, entitled “KANU”

"Rafe Pearlman makes meaning as well as music and enfolds an array of traditions in his work which can only be described as timeless and unique. He has a voice that is as full and open as the sky. A heart that is vast and defenseless and a talent that is beyond beautiful.” - John McLean, Pastor, Nashville

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As a lifelong professional musician, Micaela Kingslight can stun a room with a simple melody or get a crowd to move with groovy bluesy, indie tunes. She is dedicated to creating music that heals as well as brings people together. Her vocals are reminiscent of Nora Jones along with fiercely elegant guitar, mandolin, ukelele, bass and drum skills developed over many years performing and teaching. She worked as a studio musician in Chicago, Detroit and Kalamazoo MI, has recorded two solo albums and four albums with the band Fly Paper.

Micaela is also an independent music producer creating songs for movies and television as well as recording and engineering her original compositions. She now resides in Port Townsend Washington and teaches Vocal Yoga along with instruction in guitar, bass, ukulele, and mandolin.

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Torin Frost is a freestylist from the Pacific Northwest who’s been improvising rhymes since the recess lines. He combines intricate lyricism, melodies, and story-telling through an array of musical expressions. Singing odes to the elderberries & rapping flows for the lion’s mane, he weaves a mycelial web of NW Herbal Hip Hop. His main goal on this journey is to discombobulate the system, and grow our relationship with Mother Earth and the cosmos, one song at a time.

Torin is also the front man of the band Patterns of Saturn. You can find them on festival stages for the full experience. This ensemble is known to come with Elderberry Fairies, a theatrical tea service, & even a limbo bar.

Tune in to the full band at patternsofsaturn.com

Dave Hoover is a Harper and storyteller breathing new life into the ancestral wisdom tales of the Celtic and Germanic traditions. The ancient bardic art of epic poetry has been one of the most important tools for the transmission of wisdom. The stories and traditions of our past help us remember where we come from and understand where we want to go. Over the past 20 years he has honed his musical skills playing harp and other instruments for hospice patients and elders and has traveled the world performing at festivals and workshops. Join Dave as we learn and participate in the Bardic Art of epic song recitation and reweave our ancestral ties to these honored traditions.

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Wade Evans + Julie Margueritte Taquin

We are Pavus, an oud-violin duo exploring the musical traditions of Turkey, the Balkans, and Medieval Europe.

Wade Evans is a multi-instrumentalist who has traveled the world in search of The Sound. Wade is formally trained in Hindustani classical sitar, and has studied extensively in Varanasi, India for twenty years under Pandit Shivnath Mishra, a world-renowned sitar master. His extensive training has allowed him to bring this ancient and captivating artform to audiences across the globe. Another of Wade’s primary instruments (among many) is the Turkish oud, which he learned while wandering the Middle East. His extensive travels have bestowed upon him not only an inextinguishable love for Eastern classical music traditions but also an incredibly diverse repertoire.

Julie Margueritte Taquin is a classically trained violinist who has become enraptured by the music of Eastern Europe and Turkey. Her fascination with a variety of cultures and musical genres allows her to transmit subtleties through her playing that are at once authentic and imaginative.

Together, Julie and Wade have cultivated a unique and exciting repertoire which ranges from complex, asymmetric rhythmic dance melodies of Bulgaria and the Balkans, to the heart-wrenching and emotive cries of Anatolia.

Scott Wurtz is an eclectic World Music Percussionist. Scott’s presence and ability to listen deeply to the musical fabric allow for an expansive dialog and creativity response with fellow musicians. As a practitioner of the Healing Arts, Scott brings heartfelt playfulness to the overall process of creating musical experiences.

Jocéan is a highly sensitive soul, a multi-faceted artist, sound healer, vocalist, instrumentalist, composer, & holistic facilitator based on Orcas Island, WA. The niece of Jamey Haddad, a world-renowned/grammy nominated percussionist, she is deeply inspired and moved by rhythm, melody and harmony. She started playing music at a very young age picking up the violin at age 7 and continuing on to play over 10 instruments including a variety of percussion.

She embraces all artistic mediums and holds music very close to her heart. The music that she channels is both personal and relatable, meditative and activating. Her intention is to be a clear reflection through A.R.T.(abstracted in real time)-to deepen into the human experience-& 2 awaken from the collective slumber.

Her lyrics are often channeled in deep meditative trances she enters while playing the handpan or other instruments. Sometimes they appear as Mantras-vehicles for activation that the audience can join in and sing along, sometimes they come in as wordless sound expressions.

JOCÉAN receives deep inspiration and energy from the natural environment around her. Her personal musical influences vary immensely from Paul Simon to Olafur Arnalds, Bjork to Dean Evenson. She describes her music as New-Age meets Neo-Classical using the handpan as a tool of alchemy to immerse listeners in a unique sonic world that transports and helps people to connect deeper with themselves and source.

You will often hear her own field recordings from solo nature journeys incorporated into her handpan compositions. She sees this dance between the harmonics of nature and the harmonics of the handpan as a tool of remembrance for listeners.

Josephine "JOCÉAN" Dow also teaches handpan & frame drum to women via zoom and in-person. Learn more about her offerings here by visiting her contact page directly.

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Burke Mulvany has been part of the Soundings of the Planet family for over 20 years as both a musician and team member. He first met and collaborated with Dean Evenson in 1995 on a local Earth Day Festival and they have been working together ever since. As a wood flautist, Burke has had the honor to collaborate with Dean on multiple tracks included on the albums Mountain Meadow Meditation and Eagle River. Burke has also contributed a solo composition featured on the album Wood Over Water. As a part of the Soundings Ensemble, Burke is excited for future releases and collaborations.

Burke graduated from Fairhaven College with a self designed concentration titled “Strategies for creative community building with an emphasis in Concert and Festival concept & design”. For the past 25 years Burke has spent countless hours dedicated to the production of dozens of local and regional community enhancement gatherings and festivals.

Burke’s musical explorations have allowed him to collaborate with many stellar musicians over the years and he co-founded and played in the electric folk rock band NORTH FOREST, the acoustic folk ensemble AKARAKA, and an experimental improvisation group called SYNERGY.

Burke also received a certificate of completion from the Community Choir Leadership Training program (CCLT) based in Victoria BC and co-founded a multi-generational community choir called the INSPIRE CHOIR.

Burke lives with his partner Josephine on beautiful Orcas Island where they are working on multiple new music projects—including the REVIVIFY MUSIC PROJECT which is dedicated to creating and sharing electro-acoustic musical offerings from the heart. More about Burke & Josie’s music here: www.revivifymusic.com

Bio coming soon!