03 Jan Sara Tone
(waterSHEd/her)
musician, educator, and environmental advocate – Sara Tone has been fusing the worlds of song, polyrhythm, bioregion, and watershed for the past two decades.
currently based out of Portland, Sara works as a music educator with kids and adults, including working with a non-profit that serves incarcerated youth – primarily utilizing drumming and songwriting, leaning deep into the transformative powers of musical expression, creating positive new experiences while strengthening mind-body connection.
as a performer, Sara Tone shows up with her wild cascadian heart, singing powerful love songs for the earth throughout the west coast and Hawai’i.
you may have sang ‘medicine of the mountain song’ with her as she held the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beloved festival for more than a decade.
Sara Tone’s works in the world are informed by the complex systems of nature, the geologic long song of old memory in stone and in water, evident in her unique world-bridging approach and style.
Sara Tone has been blessed with incredible teachers and elders along her path, including the wonderful Malinké master drummer Famoudou Konaté of Guinea, West Africa, the honey-hearted, world-bridging, seed kissing, life rememberer Martín Prechtel at Bolad’s Kitchen. To have been blessed to sit in the presence and kindness of Grandma Agnes Baker Pilgrim – Takelma elder, bringing back the Salmon Ceremony to the Rogue River.
“WORKING TOWARDS HOLDING THE BEAUTY OF POLYRHYTHM, RHYTHM IS LEARNED AS SONG, WE SING WHAT WE PLAY.” -ST
Sara Tone will be offering Eco-Rhythms of Watershed