Hayley Jane’s performance is layered with raw intensity and linguistic prowess. She has a deeply emotive and highly magnetizing presence that’s generating a buzz in the industry.

Hayley pulls inspiration from a variety of styles, including 60s and 70s rock and pop, musical theater, folk, blues, soul, psychedelic, funk, and bluegrass. Just as varied are the many ways she can captivate an audience. Whether the concentrated potency of her solo acoustic performance, the explosive energy and movement of her full band shows, or one of her theatrical performances, she always brings the charisma, humor and passion to move an audience.

Her music has been praised by a wide range of musicians, producers and music lovers alike, for successfully combining a diverse sound with clever, over-the-top lyrics and Vaudevillian-style storytelling. Hayley reawakens her audiences to the wild parts of themselves, great medicine for these modern times.

Having met as music students in Boston in 2003, Spiritual Rez crafted a unique hybrid of reggae and rock with jazz chops and pop sensibility that defied any traditions at the time. The band’s power-packed live show has been thrilling audiences ever since, and has withstood lineup changes and moves of individual members to far-flung parts of the country.

In 2016, not long into the writing and recording process of their fourth studio album, Setting in the West, the storied reggae-fusion outfit knew they were creating something special. Under the guidance of producer Kenny Carkeet, a founding member of AWOLNATION, the eclectic sextet fused their high-energy reggae sound with an edgy contemporary pop polish.

Tireless touring and higher education in music have found Spiritual Rez in complete harmony on stage, forging a reputation as a live act that never fails to exhilarate a crowd. Carkeet describes them as “one of the hardest working bands in showbiz.” To date, Spiritual Rez has shared the stage with notable names like George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Steel Pulse, Jimmy Buffet and countless others.

Spiritual Rez has long supported the SpreadMusicNow mission, and embodies the Music Empowers® mantra on and off the stage, giving back to the community whenever and wherever possible, just as they are in turn enriched and supported by their fans and their home communities of Boston, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Portland, OR.

Raye Zaragoza (pronounced ray zay-rah-GO-zah) is an award-winning singer-songwriter who carries an acoustic guitar and a message. Her quiet yet powerful song “In the River,” written in response to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, garnered half a million video views, national media coverage, and a Global Music Award and Honesty Oscar. Her forthcoming sophomore LP recorded with Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, First Aid Kit) will be released in 2020. Writing about social issues comes naturally to Raye. "As a woman of color in America, social issues are things you deal with and see every day of your life," she says. "I write about my experience and oftentimes my existence has been laced with injustice."

Raye’s debut album, Fight For You (independent, 2017), displays her compassion, dedication to justice and equality for all, and keen eye for the seemingly small daily moments that become our most meaningful memories. About the record, Raye says, “This album is about finding yourself and finding your voice. It’s about maturing and realizing that you can make a difference if you so choose.”

Raye performs her music all over the United States and Europe. Her music has been featured on Billboard, Popmatters, Earmilk, Democracy Now! and on numerous lists of the best modern-day protest songs, including those by Paste Magazine, What Culture, and Overblown. She has also performed live sessions for Paste, Daytrotter, and FNX.

Raye has spoken on panels at Bonnaroo and SXSW on topics ranging from preventing sexual violence to engaging her fanbase as an independent artist. She has toured in support of Dispatch, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Kiefer Sutherland, William Elliott Whitmore, Dar Williams, Donovan Woods, and many more.

"Speaking truth to power, Raye Zaragoza is a voice made for our times." - PopMatters

Angelica (Angie) Durrell, an Ecuadorian-born violinist, educator, and social entrepreneur, is the founder and executive director of INTEMPO, an organization dedicated to making music education relevant, accessible, and inclusive. Under her leadership, INTEMPO was a 2016 and 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award finalist, won the 2019 Adolf Busch Award, and received Music for All’s 2020 Advocacy in Action Award.

Angie trained at the American Express Leadership Academy and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Advocacy Leadership Institute, and was a National Arts Strategies Creative Communities fellow. She is a Sphinx LEAD inaugural fellow and a Sphinx Performance Academy alumna, where she served as the academy’s Assistant Dean. She has given talks on social entrepreneurship at Princeton University and University of Michigan. In 2017 she became the first Latina commissioner of the City of Stamford’s Arts and Culture Commission.