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Artist Spotlight: DIRTWIRE

Artist Spotlight: Bluestronic multi-instrumentalist space cowboys DIRTWIRE in PDX on June 4th for BELOVED EMERGENCE

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Artist Spotlight: WITCH PROPHET

Queer, Canadian Ethio-Jazz, operatic soul + alternative R&B artist WITCH PROPHET comes to Portland, Oregon as part of BELOVED EMERGENCE on JUNE 4th!

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Artist Spotlight: SUDAN ARCHIVES

Genre-defying afro-futurist loops, beats, violins and more: Meet Brittney Denise Parks aka SUDAN ARCHIVES.

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The Origin Of Language is Music

Research from Jerome Lewis, a leading figure in the field of language evolution, has led to this startling and fascinating claim: the origins of language are in music.

Based on years of field work living with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies in the Congo Basin in west equatorial Africa, Lewis gave a lecture at the University of Edinburgh outlining the ways polyphonic singing among women as well as animal mimicry were the progenitors of modern language.

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Interview: Peia and the Mythic Power of Ancient Music

Beloved interviews Peia advance of her Night Of Song Tour to dive into how human culture is woven by the kind of remembering that requires the body's felt experience of the land itself.

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Artist Spotlight: PEIA

Highlighting Peia's newest offering - the debut with Beloved Presents of her short film "To The Well": the culmination of several months of grant study in the Gaeltachts (Irish speaking regions) of Western Ireland, and its supporting tour.