Musical Artists

Kelvin Mockingbird

A Midsummer Night's Dream -  Musician (Native American Flute)  

Kelvin Mockingbird has been performing the Native American Flute and telling Medicine Stories of the Dineh for the past 16 years recording nine albums. Mockingbird was nominated in 2003 for Best Native American Album and also has won several awards from the Native American Music Awards and the Flagstaff Music Awards.

Kelvin Mockingbird believes that the power of music can engage the mind, spirit and physical being in order to connect and ground people with the land and spirits around them. He shares this gift of music and ancient story telling as he has been fortunate to receive such talents, and feels that no one should be closed from the borders of music. Through his music, Mockingbird hopes that he can help humankind harmonize with each other and vocalize with the universe.

Participating in A Midsummer Night's Dream as a live music element with his natural carved wood Native American flute, Mockinbirds's character and music represents the spirit voice of nature offering the audience a walk between modern culture and ancient Native American traditions and offers new dimensionality to the much loved production. Says guest director, Michael Walling, "...Kelvin's role (in A Midsummer Night's Dream) really captures the spirituality and magic of nature. His art is deeply rooted in his culture which is authenticated by him and the instrument itself, from the natural wood to the use of breath."

You can hear samples of Kelvin's music here:

http://www.rkpr.com/ltsf/Musical%20Artists/Kelvin%20Mockingbird/

To learn more about Kelvin's music and buy his CDs please visit:
http://www.kingbirdmusic.com/home.html

"We are only a single note lingering in this cosmos, but as one people we make a strong chord in Harmony with the Universe."
~K. Mockingbird

Omar Alexander

CAMBIO - Music Director & Composer
Listen to a sample of Omar's music (:30) MP3 

Omar Alexander is a new generation U.S. Latin music artist virtuoso - a singer, songwriter, composer and musician with a Latin Gypsy Funk Rock musical style.  Born to a Colombian mother and Indian father, Omar Alexander’s fierce Bohemian warrior-poet musings represent the bilingual, multicultural U.S. Latino generation; optimistically defining itself on its own terms. With Soulare, his hard-funking band of professional musical brothers from all over the globe - including the U.S., Colombia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Holland and Israel - Omar Alexander falls within the recent powerful wave of U.S. Latin and first generation immigrant artists who grew up influenced by Latin, American and World Music. Omar Alexander’s powerful, rough, melodic gypsy-like voice was developed from his lifelong exposure to his father’s Sufi and Hindu devotional music (notably Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Hari Om Sharan).  His mother’s musica llanera Colombiana - a type of Colombian folk music from the countryside where she was born - exposed him to its own brand of poignant poetry. From his older siblings, Omar Alexander grew up with 70’s sounds - from soul and funk music, to rock anthems, to the early pioneers of salsa and flamenco. Artists of conscience and heart are the ones that continue to influence him to this day: Stevie Wonder, Santana, the Latin Jazz of Ray Barretto and Eddie Palmieri, the Flamenco of Paco de Lucía and El Camarón de la Isla, to modern day artists that include Prince, Seal and U2. Pull every single one of these diverse influences together, and you have the explosive combination that is Omar Alexander.