Description:

Join us for an intimate living room show featuring consciousness/heart/gender-expansive story/prayer/love/liberation songs for you/life/the divine/and then some.

Act 1 features original singer-songwriter tunes by Shireen and Adhamh while Act 2 invites all to add their voices in songs made for learning and singing together, facilitated by both Adhamh and Shireen.

Location:

NE Portland

Specific address will be revealed upon ticket purchase!

Ticket options:

$20-$40 sliding scale

$10-$19 pay what you can

Space is limited so please get your tickets in advance.

Land and people acknowledgment:

This event is taking place on the unceded territory of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, Grande Ronde and more. A portion of proceeds will be donated to NAYA (Native American Youth and Family Association).

Accessibility:

The house is single level with one stair. Couch and chair seating can be reserved for bodies that require them upon request. Contact host.

Community Care:

This event is indoors! You are welcome to mask to your own comfort level. If sick, please stay home and take care. In such a case, contact host before event begins to receive a full refund.

Bios:

Shireen “Riyo” Amini (they/them) is a queer, trans, Puerto Rican-Iranian American, earth-loving song creator, rhythm maker, and community facilitator based in Portland, Oregon. As a human, they carry a deep commitment to their own liberation path and vision of a more just world. As an artist, they believe strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution. Shireen blends pop, rock, hip hop, latin, and roots sensibilities with socially-conscious themes as a singer-songwriter and creates modern medicine music for community singing. In song circles, they hold transformational space, leading joyful, groove-based songs, evoking tenderness, and often engaging participants in the rhythm and ceremony of it all. Stay tuned for Shireen’s first community song album in-the-works, tentatively titled “Gather Your Resilience: Medicine Songs for Liberation."

Adhamh Roland, M. Div. (he/him) is a playful mystic and ir/reverent song-weaver packaged in a Euro-American, queer, transgender, able (for now) human body. His songs, life, and vocation as a hospital chaplain orient around joy, connection, suffering, freedom from suffering, and intimacy with Life and Death, and are deeply informed by Insight Buddhist practice and Earth-based wisdom. His tunes have been described as “Frighteningly clever and disarmingly heartfelt folk songs”.