Rise Up Music Project

The Maroon Collective, composed of Nicole Danielle and Forest Brooks, is a duo who blends poetry with music to create soundscapes that take us into the dreamscapes for our collective liberation. In that tradition our first song of the year invites folks to journey to the stars as a way to freedom making. This is Cosmos.

Gee Goods is a hip hop/rap artist and producer out of the Pacific Northwest. This song, “True Black Leaders,” is a musical blend of hip hop and poetry, signifying personal life experiences, specifically in the work professional setting.

Stacy Rene Erenberg is ‘From Here to There’ as a vocalist and songwriter from Chicago. Her improvisational stylings bring you on an inventive, genre-bending journey, from Jazz to Folk, Pop to Blues and of course A Capella. Stacy and her band of incredibly talented collaborators will lullaby you into your body and into new liberatory dreamscapes.

This month’s post is a song about the phases of grief.

Happy Lion is the musical project of Louie Opatz, a writer, educator, cyclist, ballplayer and organizer in Los Angeles. Check out a new Happy Lion tune on the 4th of each month. Here’s Happy Lion’s first entry, “Sometimes I’m on My Bike & Everything Stills & the Sun Shines Down on Me.”

Jon Preece is a musician, father and owner of Cedar House Music Studio, a multipurpose music studio in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. He will be sharing a new song on the third of each month this year, and his first song is titled “47,” an exploration of analog synthesis, live instrumentation and asymmetrical meter.

Cousin Wolf is the indie-folk music project of Matt Halvorson, an artist and baseball fan living with his family in the woods north of Seattle. He is sharing a new song on the first of every month this year, and his song for today is called “Classic.” It’s a short little tune about standing your ground.