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STEVE GOLD

Steve Gold is a down to earth, and soulful singer. He creates powerfully positive music that heals and inspires, broadcasting vibrations straight from the heart, and weaving a sacred space for yoga, healing or simply being in the moment. Steve's personal practices of more than 25 years combines his love for yoga, world music, chanting, songwriting, and possibility thinking. Steve often travels the world with his wife, Anne-Émilie, teaching workshops and playing music at yoga conferences, music festivals. In 2010, Steve and Anne-Émilie completed 200 hours of Prana Flow Yoga Teacher Training with Shiva Rea. Steve is also blogger for the Wanderlust Festival. For more information please visit: stevegoldmusic.com

DJ DREZ

DJ Drez is one of the most prominent, diverse and influential DJs in the LA
underground music scene. Drez explores boundaries by combining yesterdays roots with the ingenuity of todays hip hop. Although Drez is primarily known as a Hip Hop DJ and producer, those who know him have experienced his talents for jazz, soul and world music. From mix tapes to full length albums, festivals performing for audiences of 30 thousand and yoga classes of 30. Drez contributes his multidimensional sound to the world of music With style, grace and consciousness. He has been collaborating with Micheline Berry since 2005 who introduced him to the live music yoga/ecstatic dance scene in Los Angeles.

GOVINDAS and RAHDA
Govindas and Radha are California-based bhakti yogis, kirtan singers, and as their spiritual names suggest, "servants of the Divine". They are a husband and wife team with great love and devotion for the Divine, their Guru, eachother, and traditional yogic practices of India - This is the essence which is reflected and transmitted through their teachings and music.
Through the sacred practice of Kirtan, repetitiously chanting the names of God/Goddess from ancient India, they will guide you on a musical meditation and yogic adventure deep into the essence of Bhakti---the yoga of the Heart, the yoga of Love...

JOEY LUGASSY

Moroccan American, Joey Lugassy started his musical career at age seven spending most of his childhood Fridays chanting in a Sephardic temple. As an adult he has been in various rock bands in the US and England including Daysix and BunChakeeze, still in the London Top 10 on Reverbnation.

Among his musical highlights: a song he wrote and performed “Today” for an official Amnesty International campain; being nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song in a Drama Series; and getting the Greek Theatre chanting onstage with India Arie. As a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter, Joey’s music Bridges the gap between performance and prayer. His vocals are as natural crooning in Spanish and English as they are singing in Sanskrit and leading kirtan. His melodic sense and style ranges soulful-funk to ecstatic chant.

LERAINE HORSTMANSHOFF

Music has always been an integral part of Leraine's life. With a trunk load of instruments from guitar to didgeridoo, Leraine expresses her inner light through music. With the release of the CD "Harmony" Leraine embarks on a new and powerful path… music as spiritual practice. Her voice has grown rich and full and now she is ready to share her innate and Newabundant musical mastery to bring people together to raise consciousness on the planet.

DAVE STRINGER
Dave Stringer has been profiled in publications as diverse as Time, Billboard, In Style, and Yoga Journal as a leader of the new American kirtan movement. Kirtan (from the Sanskrit word meaning “to sing”) is a form of mantra chanting that has become popular as a participatory live music experience at hundreds of yoga studios worldwide. Dave’s sound marries the transcendent mysticism of traditional Indian instruments with the exuberant, groove-oriented sound of American gospel and funk.   Kirtan stills the mind and frees the heart. Sung in call-and-response form, ecstasy is both the process and the product. Stringer's sound infuses the mysticism of traditional Indian instruments with the exuberant intensity of American gospel and jazz, and he is regarded as one of the most gifted singers in the genre. An engaging speaker with an unorthodox perspective, he has a special ability for making the Sanskrit chants come alive and inspiring people to sing. His work creates a modern and participatory theatrical experience out of the ancient traditions of kirtan and yoga, open to a multiplicity of interpretations, and accessible to all.   Initially trained as a visual artist and jazz musician, Dave first started chanting mantras in the early 1990’s when a film editing project brought him to the ashram of Swami Muktananda in India. Currently based in Los Angeles, since 2000 Stringer and his ensemble have produced five CDs and toured North America, Europe and Australia tirelessly.

DOMONIC DEAN BREAUX

The presence of Domonic Dean Breaux's elegantly composed music in one's life serves as the perfect substitute for love. A life-long master of woodwinds, Domonic Breaux commands his audience to experience the pure essence of being, bending wind into beauty, and transforming moments into savory audioscience. His music brings a high level of excitement, spiritual intensity, and ethnicity to music that makes him a welcome addition to any musical project. Those who experience his sound have been led into their dreams.

RED MUSSETTE
DJ Drez | World Music Taste Maker spinning funky, eclectic beats Joey Lugassy | Singer Songscribe Kirtan Wallah vocals, guitar and harmonium Domonic Dean Breaux | Muse of All Things Wind saxophone and flute Renowned for their ability to rock the dance floor or chill the asana room, RED MUSETTE ENSEMBLE spans genres from Batucada to Electronica, Afro-Cuban to Asian, World Beat to Downtempo, Roots/Rock to Indian Chant, and is honored to be rockin’ the Butte with you all.

RYAN NADLONEK Music is an experience, a gift, a natural way of being, yoga. Deeply devoted to kirtan, losing myself in the rhythms and emotions of the practice, the lifestyle, the celebration and purification. I surrender my fears, doubts, ignorance, pride, desires...everything I ever thought I was...into the fire of devotion. I give my everything to the bliss found in chanting the names of God. to Asian, World Beat to Downtempo, Roots/Rock to Indian Chant, and is honored to be rockin’ the Butte with you all.

A student of the flow. A student of Shiva Rea. A student of the ocean, mountains, rivers, and forests. A wandering yogi. A bliss bunny. An artist in the mediums of movement and sound, consciousness and energy. Where the river goes is where I flow. Where the path leads is where I am needed. When the work is finished, I turn to the master for instruction and bow humbly to the mystery, continually. Aum.

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