Hearthsongs: House Show and Community Songs with Shireen Amini and Adhamh Roland

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. This event is also happening on Native American Heritage Day. 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 Amini (masc non-binary person - in transition but still using - she/her) is a queer Puerto Rican-Iranian American, earth-loving song creator, rhythm maker, and community facilitator based on unceded Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and Grande Ronde territory, aka Portland, Oregon. She believes strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution and 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. As a community songleader, she holds transformational space, leading joyful, groove-based songs, evoking tenderness, and often engaging her participants in the rhythm and ceremony of it all. She also teaches drumming, facilitates grief ritual, and hosts a Portland-based queer and poc-led song circle series called Sing People Sing! as part of her community-based music empowerment project, Shireen Amini Music Medicine.

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”.