Growing up in a musical family, Brad was exposed to Folk and Roots music from birth. His father Ken Kolodner is a renowned hammered dulcimer player and fiddler who toured for many years in the folk trio Helicon. When Brad picked up the banjo at age 17, everything started to click into place. Since then, he’s charted a path centered on performing, recording, broadcasting and community organizing. He’s an acclaimed clawhammer banjo player who performs with the chart-topping Irish, Old-Time, Bluegrass fusion quartet Charm City Junction.
Mark Jaster served as teaching assistant to Marcel Marceau. He brings over 40 years of performance experience, including over 30 years as a featured act at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, thousands of performances and hundreds of residencies for school-age audiences. He is also Artistic Co-Director of the award-winning Happenstance Theater, and has served as movement consultant to many regional theaters.
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The essential tracks all in one playlist.
Year: 2021
Ensemble Lafayette Diane Kinsley, organ and Rebecca Anstine Smith, harp
Birthday Gratitude Live-streamed Concert with KA/PO-Karen Ashbrook & Paul Oorts
April 28, 2020 newly locked down, KA/PO Karen Ashbrook and Paul Oorts live-stream their first concert to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
Year: 2020
Details: 66 minutes
NuLove Fest Performance
Mike Jon filmed artist Kasaun Tianna alongside saxophonist/producer Ray Winder and guitarist/producer Gino Hannah performing 'Angel Messages' at the infamous YNot Lot for the NUlove Fest curated by Josh Stokes in Baltimore City.
Medium: Music/performance
Year: 2020
Details: Festival
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There are pieces of us that fight at every turn; pieces that get jealous, angry, or cocky. I've found that those pieces are part of the ego and it is how I choose to kill the ego that decides how I move forward. 'Ego Death' is a song about killing the false self; I call 'Ego Death' a visual rebirth and the goal was to capture the many forms of metamorphosis while killing ego in order for true confidence to arise inside of self.
Medium: Music
Year: 2021
Details: 2:03
Ego Death
There are pieces of us that fight at every turn; pieces that get jealous, angry, or cocky. I've found that those pieces are part of the ego and it is how I choose to kill the ego that decides how I move forward. 'Ego Death' is a song about killing the false self; I call 'Ego Death' a visual rebirth and the goal was to capture the many forms of metamorphosis while killing ego in order for true confidence to arise inside of self.
Medium: Music/Film
Year: 2021
Details: 2:03
ARTIST BIO
Name
Kasean Reeves (Kasaun Tianna)
Born/Resides
Baltimore, MD
Education
-Baltimore School for the Arts, 2011
-Several years as a self-taught writer, musician, photographer, videographer, model, and performer.
Collaborative Performances
‘The Brute Beast’, Arena Playhouse; 2005
‘Grease’, Arena Playhouse; 2006
‘Black History Program’, Arena Playhouse; 2007
‘Expressions’/’Opera Scenes’, Baltimore School for the Arts; 2008-2011
Chamber Choir; 2010-2011
Raw Poetry Productions; 2017-2018
Sistah Queens Show; 2019
Impromptu band performance, New Orleans; 2020
Solo Performances