Earthwork Music Collective: Ralston Bowles, Sari Brown, Mike Savina, Nicholas James Thomasma
Schedule
Wed Jul 08 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
North Star Lounge | Ann Arbor, MI
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Earthwork Music Collective believes in the intrinsic power of music to raise both community and self-awareness. Comprised of musicians, teachers, healers, farmers, water protectors, and community organizers, they encourage cooperation and collaboration, using music as a tool to serve, heal, inspire and empower. This monthly series features members from all around MI converging to create cosmic collabs, cultivate lasting relationships with our community, and elevate environmental and social justice movements.Ralston Bowles' musical history begins with his father, who played the fiddle, guitar and banjo in the Appalachian hills before he moved to Gary, Indiana to work the steel mills. Ralston's first professional job was at the age of 16 when he was asked to make up one of his story songs for a neighborhood party.
After graduation he found himself playing in clubs and coffeehouses throughout the Midwest, making up songs about the people and places he visited. Now a cherished elder statesman of the MI folk community, Ralston serves sage council to all wise enough to listen.
Sari Brown is a priestess of song, dance, and kitchen magic who curates dreams, facilitates rituals, and cultivates beauty in community. She works in the fertile gaps between cultures and has lived as an anthropological researcher and activist in South America and as a musician and pastor in Michigan. She is equal parts child of Motown, mystical chants, and Andean folkloric dance. Using textured soundscapes and vulnerable storytelling, her songs create holding spaces for healing, self-awareness, and practices of abundant life.
Sari is the founder and director of The Healing Feast, an organization and event series that embodies radical abundance, creativity, and nourishment to promote healing connections with self, others, the earth, and the sacred.
Mike Savina is what's sometimes referred to as a "tone farmer". In his sonic adventures playing under the name "miglodesh", his ever restless muse is forever in search of new textures, tonalities, and modalities. But to the layman, it all comes out as masterful guitar music crafted by a master carver of curved air.
Traveling around in a bright orange 1973 Volkswagen Bus, Nicholas James Thomasma combines stories and songs for a show that can be enjoyed by patrons of all ages, charming audiences with his playful sense of humor and real life stories. Nicholas is also a facilitator at Huco Songs, the Port Austin Artist in Residence Songwriting Retreat Weekend, the Earthwork Songwriters Summit for Resilience, and Wheatland Music Organization's Summer Wheat Music Camp. He curates a songwriter in-the-round concert series called the Songtellers, and is currently the Interim Executive Director for the Michigan Music Alliance.
Tickets: https://www.nstarlounge.com/tickets/p/julyearthwork
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North Star Lounge, 299 Catherine St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1426, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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