Naomi Westwater

• Americana
• Singer/Songwriter

Naomi Westwater (they/them/she) is a queer, Black-multiracial singer-songwriter from Massachusetts. Their work combines folk-rock music, poetry, and spirituality. Their hope is that through ritual and storytelling they can aid nature in the end of capitalism and the return to community, creativity, and collective joy.

Naomi holds a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music, and they are a part of The Club Passim Folk Collective, where they produce Re-Imagining Lilith Fair: a tribute to the feminist music scene of the 1990s with an intersectional lens for today.

Naomi was nominated for four Boston Music Awards, and featured in The Boston Globe, Under The Radar, WBUR, GBH, and The Bluegrass Situation. They made the WBUR’s 2024 Makers list, and in November 2024 the musician-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France.

Naomi is also a cultural curator, she leads the Boston Chapter of We Make Noise where she produces We Make Noise Fest and We Make Noise Camp, and has produced shows at The Apollo Theater, The Beacon Theatre, The Bell House, and more. Currently, Naomi is producing a series called Reclaiming Folk: A Celebration of People of Color in Folk Music and has received over 20 grants to tour the series.

Naomi is on faculty at Club Passim and Not Sorry Productions teaching songwriting, spirituality, and poetry. Her latest concept record, Cycle & Change is out everywhere.

Amanda Shea

Three-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word artist Amanda Shea is a Black, queer creative at the intersection of poetry, music, social justice, and culture. WBUR lauds her EP, God, Again, as “bridging the gap between poetry and music,” seamlessly blending spoken word with genres such as hip-hop, rap, rock, opera, jazz, R&B, and contemporary sounds. With work featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Boston Globe, TEDx, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, and GBH, Shea’s voice honors African and Puerto Rican oral traditions, while pushing the boundaries of what poetry can be—and who can access it. Her art reflects her personal life, explores social justice issues, and serves as a means of healing from trauma.

Evan Greer

Evan Greer (she/they) is a queer musician, writer and activist based in Boston. Radical historian Howard Zinn once called Greer “an eloquent and energetic writer” reminiscent of “Phil Ochs”. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello called Greer “a heck of a guitar player.” Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace called her “a mentally ill man in a dress” just before having her thrown out of an event in Washington, DC. Known for hosting some of Boston’s best queer dance parties and causing problems for the powerful, Greer’s music has been featured by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR and the Boston Globe and she’s shared stages with legends like Pete Seeger, Talib Kweli, Against Me, Ezra Furman, Eve 6, Chumbawamba, Melissa Ferrick, Kimya Dawson, Ted Leo, Dead Prez and Billy Bragg.

Analise

Analise has a gift for the kind of storytelling that reads like a diary and feels like your closest friend. Raised on the New Hampshire seacoast as the youngest of three sisters, she crafts a homemade sound that blends alternative indie, folk lyricism, and DIY textures—tracks that feel like whispered secrets, written in a bedroom just down the hall from yours. Her debut EP oshibana garnered early attention from Wonderland Magazine, which praised “the New England rising songbird’s flair for communicating human experiences, with acuity well beyond her years.” Since the viral momentum of her 2023 project Messy, she has opened for artists like Infinity Song and Allison Ponthier, and received praise from Fashionably Early and NOTION—steadily building an intimate community that is unfiltered and achingly human.

With every release, Analise offers a refuge for anyone learning to live with tenderness in a world that often forgets how; each hand-stitched melody is either a fragment of her own mental diaries or a letter to anyone in need of a space to heal.