Reboot Ideas Conversations

Reboot Ideas: Liberation Through Music

April 12, 2020

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Zach Rogue

Musician

Zach Rogue is the founding member of the Oakland-based indie rock band Rogue Wave. He is a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and writer.  

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Nicki Bluhm

Musician

California native, Nicki Bluhm recently made the move from her home of San Francisco to Nashville, TN, re-invigorated as a songwriter and now embarking on her second decade releasing albums and diversifying her live performances. Stepping out on her own with the 2018 release “To Rise You Gotta Fall” (produced by Matt Ross-Spang) and playing in these different live formats has lended to bright-eyed takes of her deep existing catalogue while introducing exciting new and unreleased material for the future.

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Jeremiah Lockwood

Musician

Jeremiah Lockwood is a scholar and a storyteller; a singer, guitarist and composer with an expansive knowledge of musical traditions and techniques that stretch from The Piedmont blues to the cantorial traditions of his family. He is currently a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lockwood’s music career began with over a decade of apprenticeship to the legendary Piedmont Blues musician Carolina Slim, playing in the subways of New York City. He also trained under his grandfather Cantor Jacob Konigsberg and performed in his choir. Jeremiah’s band The Sway Machinery seeks inspiration from diverse realms of experience related to the cultural geography of New York City. The Sway Machinery has played around the world, including stints at legendary music festivals like Montreal Jazz, Roskilde, and perhaps most notably, Festival au Desert in Timbuktu, Mali. His first book, Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era, is coming out in February 2024 with University of California Press.

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Luther Dickinson

Songwriter, guitar player and record producer

Luther Andrews Dickinson is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars and the son of record producer Jim Dickinson. He is also known for being the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes. He hosts Guitar Xpress on the Video on Demand network Mag Rack.