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Sierra Hawkins is an American actor, stuntwoman, musical artist, and songwriter. The multi-talented starlet started her journey by starring in Blumhouse's #1 in box office "Ouija" to then go on to work in multiple films and tv projects such as "The Detective" co-starring Michael Madsen. "Hocus Pocus 2",
, "Annabelle Comes Home", "The Conjuring:
The Devil Made Me Do it "
' and more.
Sierra's musical sound thrives on emotional connection, catchy hooks, and unique melodies. With over 50k organic listeners on Spotify, her audience is continuing to grow fast!
Sierra has played venues including the Verizon Amphitheater with Alt-rock band MUSE, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), and more. With songs signed to publishing companies such as Kobalt, Pink Shark, and Masterphonic, her music, and songwriting can be heard in movies such as "Bite", "The Sound of Settling" and more.
Sierra is also a proud alumnus of The Recording Academy's Grammy
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Sierra's mission is to spread the joy she feels while performing while helping others process their emotions and heal through her art. Her goal is for people to love all parts of themselves through feeling and letting emotions be a guidance system through transformation and growth.

Desus Nice (@Desusnice) and The Kid Mero (@thekidmero) are the Bodega Boys 
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Kris Moauro is a Singer-Songwriter, Life Coach and TV Producer from Leamington, Ontario, Canada.
Kris channels experience and vulnerability when writing lyrics. His upbeat, heartfelt indie tunes are meant to inspire the minds of others, while giving listeners material they can relate to. The energy of his songs are meant to connect with compassionate minds.

Pale Monsters are new wave-art rockers that bring an an off-kilter, modernized take to guitar and synth driven rock. They have been compared to Pere Ubu, Elvis Presley, David Bowie and the Talking Heads.
 
Led by the songwriting and "impassioned howl" (Vanyaland) of Chris Mulvey, the Boston-based quartet is made up of longtime Boston music veterans (and friends), Kevin McGrath, Mike Ward and Travis Richter.
 
The band’s 2016 5-song debut EP Take What You Can Take was "a set of loud, sad indie rock gems" (Boston Herald) described as "fresh and vital" (Worcester Telegram). 
 
In late 2017, Pale Monsters released their "anthemic new single" (Vanyaland) "All This Time We Wait" through their website, earning a spot as one of the best of Boston singles of 2017 by influential Boston music site, Vanyaland.
 
The new track is the first glimpse into Pale Monster's upcoming full length album, scheduled for release in March 2018, and titled, Are You Feeling Alive?

Contact the band at palemonsters@gmail.com

"A lot of people write songs, Hoekstra writes five-minute worlds” (Wired Magazine). Musician/author Doug Hoekstra started playing in bands in his hometown of Chicago, with alt-country Bucket Number Six, who released their eponymous debut on Butch Vig’s Boat Records label, followed by High On the Hog, produced by Shoes’ Jeff Murphy (with two cuts recorded at Sun Records, Memphis). 

Post-Bucket, Hoekstra moved to Nashville and began his career as a solo artist, releasing eight CDs on various indie labels in the U.S. and Europe over the next decade, including Rickety Stairs (Nashville Music Award nominee, Best Folk Album), Make Me Believe (Sam Cooke Sang the Gospel appearing in the film Strange Hearts), Around the Margins (Independent Music Award nominee), and Waiting (one of Paste Records inaugural releases). Hoekstra toured extensively on both sides of the pond in support, from castles to clubs to coffeehouses, live radio and letter fests (ala SXSW plus). His work draws comparisons to artists such as Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, and the Velvet Underground, with imagistic lyrics, intimate vocals, eclectic backing.  Key collaborators have included David Henry (Nashville), Jeff Kowalkowski (Chicago), and George Marinelli (Nashville).

In 2006, Hoekstra’s first collection of short stories Bothering the Coffee Drinkers, was an Independent Publisher Award finalist. Two years later, after his Blooming Roses CD, Hoekstra stepped back to focus on fatherhood and prose, stories and essays appearing in numerous literary journals. His first book of poetry, Unopened, was published in  2019; soon after he began work at Dave Coleman’s Howard Apartment Studio in Nashville, for "The Day Deserved," the album to be released in Spring 2021.   A new book of short stories, "Ten Seconds In-Between" is slated for June 2021, as well

Note on the Making Of "The Day Deserved"

“Basically, after all the creative activity I’d been engaged in over the years, I spent the past decade stepping away from music to raise my son, work non-profit, teach, and do some prose writing.  He’s older now and a couple years ago, I was inspired by the influx of free time, things in our country I wanted to write about, and things I wanted to say musically, different than I had in the past.  As my liner note says, “this is a record intended to be a marker of the times, disenfranchised characters inhabiting the tunes, pressing on through barriers and breaks fostered by their surroundings.  Often, they travel a circuitous route, reflected in music that mirrors their path to self-determination, authenticity, happiness.  Sometimes the fruits of this journey are reflected in something as simple as a better day, their day, the day deserved.”  Hope you enjoy and can find yourself between the notes.  (Doug Hoekstra, 2021)

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