Chuck Easton
Vocal Accompanist & Music Theory
Guitar
Guitarist Chuck Easton is a long time Olympic Peninsula resident who teaches and plays locally. He plays bass in the Pt. Townsend Symphony Orchestra and owns a few other instruments as well. Chuck is a graduate of the Berklee College of music in Boston.
Taylor Eigsti
Faculty
Piano
GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti started playing the piano when he was four years old. Growing up in Menlo Park, CA, Eigsti was quickly labeled a prodigy, and has since released 8 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 70 albums as a sideman. Eigsti recently won a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his most recent album “Tree Falls”, released in 2021 on GSI Records.…
Maude Eisele
Faculty
Maude is a founding ensemble member of Saltfire Theatre in Port Townsend. Her passion for collaborative theatre has brought her into many theatre ensembles over the years: from Poor Players, a bold and wacky Shakespeare ensemble rehearsing in the shadows of Balboa Park in San Diego…to world and regional premiers with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company…to the Colorado Shakespeare Company’s touring troupe’s explorations of bullying behavior and its remedies through Shakespeare’s words.…
Rebecca Elatiki
Faculty
Rebecca is a Moroccan-American singer-songwriter, heavily influenced by spiritual and folk traditions from the Middle East/North Africa, South America, as well as contemporary music genres from the West. Born to a classically trained opera singer and a natively born Moroccan father, she brings a unique blend of vocal techniques, and influences. She has facilitated music for concerts, retreats around the world, festivals, sound journeys, and hosts songwriting groups for both youth and adults.…
Eleanor Ellis
Guitar
Eleanor Ellis, a native of Louisiana, has performed at clubs, festivals and concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has also traveled and played with the late gospel street singer Flora Molton and bluesman Archie Edwards, and sometimes accompanied Delta Blues great Eugene Powell. She is a founding member of the DC Blues Society and the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, has written about the blues for several publications, and is producer and editor of the video documentary Blues Houseparty, which features well-known Piedmont blues musicians such as John Jackson, John Cephas, and Archie Edwards.…
Pamela English
Gospel Choir
Pam English’s musical journey began at age three, when Pam began singing in the youth choir at Unity Baptist Church Detroit. Private piano lessons began at age 7 and she recorded her first album with the youth choir at age 9. Pam began playing for churches, directing and teaching choirs at the age of 10. This continued throughout high school, college, and well into her adult musical career.…
Georgia Erger
Georgia Erger is Curator at the Frye Art Museum, where she has organized exhibitions including Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images, Sky Hopinka: Subterranean Ceremonies, Clarissa Tossin: to take root among the stars, and several iterations of the Boren Banner Series public art initiative. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she organized solo exhibitions including Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations and Caroline Monnet: Bridging Distance, as well as group and collections-based exhibitions including Hyper Text: The Video Essay and the Expanded Field of Audiovisuality and Visual Citizenship.…
Belen Escobedo
and Ramon Gutierrez
Texas
fiddle, bajo sexto
(written by Dan Margolies) – It’s not only hard to describe Belen Escobedo’s gardens, it’s hard even to comprehend what you are seeing. Flowers, trees, vegetables, vines, and who-knows-exactly-what of local and Texas native plants grow everywhere, in, over, and through things in two yards. Plants assert themselves alongside terraces, awnings, containers of all descriptions, bird baths, signs, statuary, old rusted things, compelling little tableaux of children’s toys, collectibles, antiques.…
Steven Espaniola
It’s rare when an artist arrives on the scene offering a refreshing new spin on a traditional genre of music. Nā Hōkū Hanohano nominated Steven Espaniola is that artist. Raised in Aliamanu, Hawai’i and now residing in the California Bay Area, Steven is a self taught multi-instrumentalist Hawaiian artist specializing in Ki Ho’alu (Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar), ‘Ukulele, Upright Bass, and Leo Ki’e Ki’e (Traditional Hawaiian falsetto).…
Queen Esther
One of country and Americana music’s most fascinating artists, Queen Esther’s range stretches far and wide creatively. Bold and outspoken, sweet and generous in spirit, her music shines a light on violence against Black Americans, her passion for country music, and the myths that have haunted the South since long before the Civil War. She’s a vocalist, songwriter, lyricist, musician, solo performer, playwright, librettist, essayist, actor, TED speaker and producer.…
