Birdtalker is made up of Zack and Dani Green, Andy Hubright, Brian Seligman, and Jesse Baker. Zack and Dani were married in 2012 and soon after their wedding tried writing a couple songs together. They liked it, so they wrote a couple more. Andy, a friend from college and very talented drummer, was into the songs and started beating on stuff while Zack and Dani played them. It sounded good. While these 3 were playing the songs at Shakespeare in the Park one August afternoon, Brian became interested in adding his immense talent to the mix as well and began playing along with mandolin and guitar. It sounded even better. Birdtalker as these 4 members wrote and practiced for about a year when yet another talented friend and Birdtalker's biggest fan, Jesse, expressed interest in lending his bass sounds to the band. It is the combination of each member's specific offerings that gives Birdtalker the life and sound that it now possesses. And it doesn't hurt that they all like each other a heck of a lot, too. 

Zack and Dani write songs as a way to share ideas they care about and sentiments they feel deeply. Playing music has proven to be a powerful avenue for connection and communion, within the band as well as with listeners. Birdtalker's hope is simply that the more music they write and share, the more true and vulnerable interactions may be born from it. 

Hummingbird Tapes tells the stories of Isolations.

 

Isolations are one-week trips for musicians to create a compilation of songs under the collective artist name, Hummingbird Tapes. We find making music this way momentarily disconnects the collaborators from the world, freeing their creativity and fueling their friendships: letting the music form itself organically. These songs and stories are a demonstration of how an environment and the people within it, their cultures and personalities, will influence the creation of music. To tell this story, musicians are inspired to document the experience and share it through their own eyes.

Recording & performing artist. Singer-songwriter & producer from Puerto Rico.

A Nashville-based electric guitarist and punk rock poet, Cassel converted from days as an acoustic folk artist to fronting a rock band with her trusty nicotine-patinated Strat, fondly known as “Old Yeller,” in tow. Combined with effortlessly melodic vocals, jazzy chords, and rock and roll attitude, one could call her music the fortunate meeting of Bonnie Raitt and Amy Winehouse. 

Cassel’s anticipated EP, spaces you crawl in between, shares personal glimpses into transcendently-everyday human experiences. Leaving home, the tumultuous highs and lows of love, and loss of innocence are all present, and Cassel handles every subject with brutally sincere poeticism. Her singles “Nothing” and “Untouchable” off of The Spaces You Crawl In Between can be heard on all streaming platforms.

spaces you crawl in between, available everywhere August 21st, 2020.

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nonbinary musician, composer and performer who fronts the band the canvas collective

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