Christina Muir is a singer/songwriter/musician/artist, and one-third of the trio known as Hot Soup. Daughter of folk luminary Ann Mayo Muir, Christina has music in her genes & in her heart. With her wonderful vocals, talented instrumentals, fertile creativity, and a winsome laugh, she'll win your ear and your heart.
Andra Suchy comes from an impressively musical family, including her father, Chuck Suchy, so you know that she good schoolin' in music on the North Dakata plains. A down-home woman currently living in the city, Andra speaks & sings her heart passionately. Featured on Prairie Home Companion repeatedly, she combines folk, country, all-her-own, music.
In Turn Here, Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, Atina Diffley shares the story of the Gardens of Eagan and Atina's personal story of learning female empowerment, organic farming, and successfully taking on an oil pipeline owned by the infamous Koch Brothers. Mixing vivid stories, earth-centered spirituality, and organic expertise, Atina is a true Spirit in Action. She is an organic consultant with Organic Farming Works, LLC.
Rita Nakashima Brock is a theologian, teacher, and co-author of Soul Repair- Recovering From Moral Injury After War. She was an organizer of the 2010 Truth Commission on Conscience in War, and she recently became the co-director of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School. Her thoughts and stories are profound and transforming..
Dorothy Zerbe is a wonderful singer/songwriter, person & voice to know. A latecomer to performing her songs, she shares music in many ways, including at the Shawano Folk Festival, plus she hosts house concerts under the name of The Savage Beast House Concert series.
Carl Bunin is founder of PeaceButtons.info, and he's provided over 110,000 peace buttons to the world (plus lots of other stuff) and he provides a "This Week in Peace & Social Justice" email newsletter, mapping out the movements and actions that have produced remarkable changes in the last century. Formerly on the front of demonstrations, teach-ins, and the like, Carl now does his bit for the peace movement from a wheelchair, due to MS, but it's hardly slowed him down at all.
Joe Maurer is the Coconut half of the musical duo Coconut & the Duke. They produce music which is creative, eclectic, and engaging. Joe is multi-talented, working as a solar & landscape designer with Next Step Energy and farming as part of St. Isidore’s Mead Organic Dairy Farm.
John Heagle, author of Justice Rising: The Emerging Biblical Vision, has been a Catholic priest for 48 years, early working as the first director of the Office of Justice & Peace in La Crosse, WI. He’s also a licensed psychotherapist and co-director of Therapy & Renewal Associates in Lincoln City, Oregon, and the author of seven books.
David M. Jones, English Professor is the not-so-secret identity of Davey J, bluesman & singer/songwriter. With his band, the Jonestones, he makes music to move you and, hopefully, to move you to insight & peace.
Peter Sterling has released 12 CDs and now a book, Hearing the Angels Sing - A True Story of Angelic Assistance. While sitting meditation is the Sedona back country, Peter received direction from the angels to begin playing the harp and 10 months later he had his first album. An enduring favorite on the New Age charts, Peter weaves magic on the harp.