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Ashley Young

Alaska-based Indigenous songwriter Ashley Young is a hopeful romantic with unforgettable vocal warmth. Her lovesick disposition is a light-hearted lens to radical reclamation. Audience members of Ashley’s live performances experience catharsis through her infectious laughter and refreshing honesty. With a goal of promoting authenticity, connection, and cycle breaking, Ashley’s music reveals vulnerable and personal truths that many experience but are often afraid to discuss. Her sources of strength are self-love, risk-taking, and Tlingít tribal values like humor and community. After performing for a decade in Boise, Idaho, Ashley returned home to Alaska. Upon her return, she was nominated best singer in town. Anchorage Daily News tapped Young as Alaska’s potential breakout star of 2023. Ashley is on the DIY circuit, completing her third west coast tour spring 2024. She played the main stage at Áak’w Rock Indigenous Music Festival and Sundown Solstice Festival in 2023. Ashley’s act continues to captivate, bringing attention to the vibrant indie music scene in Alaska.

Wend

Wend

Wend began as the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Riley Johnson, with a harp and vocals ran through an array of effects pedals to create a spacious, ethereal psychedelic backdrop. From that starting point it has grown into a full 8 piece ensemble, a combination of a rock band and a string quartet. For this Kin show, WEND will be performing in all its current iterations, from an ambient two piece to a string quartet centric 6 piece to the full 8 person ensemble, with music ranging from collaboratively written psych-prog rock to Johnson’s own emotionally orchestrated compositions, and of course the hypnotic lullabies for which the band is known best. As one YouTube user said, “I feel like I just dropped acid at a Renaissance Fair”

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