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Jaraneh Nova is an American born songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist based in Ojai, CA. She has been called the Voice from the Ancestral Well, drawing inspiration from her Native American roots, bringing the essence of Traditional Native American Music and infuses it with modern sound.

Inspired by the pioneers of song and sound. Her artistic journey weaves original music and native heritage into medicine stories that heal and transform. Her lyrics are powerfully born from prayerful states and channeled from ancestral helpers.

Performing live for over 20,000 people, her live show is a beautiful tapestry woven with live loops of ambient sounds, native flutes, guitars, vocals, and prayers.

This can be transcendence.
This is a musical spiritual quest and homecoming for us all.

Festival audiences at Lucidity, Coachella, Cosmic Carnival, Love Fest, Inlakesh and more, have joined in the trance-like native ambient folk-tronic experience. The beautiful vibes and ancestral energies she brings, lift the spirit and connect the heart to our sacred mother earth.

Jaraneh Nova is a life long musician with her roots in Opera, Jazz and the Classics. Her first band, Blues Crusher was a successful experiment in Psychedelic Blues Rock. Her next project, Big Bone Lick (named after the famous Mammoth burial site in Kentucky) created a fresh Tribal-tronic sound. Next, she began her solo project: Red Road Medicine Show, an evening of live-looping and indigenous wisdom teachings. She is currently working on her first major album release: Emergence. Please visit her Patreon page to join her growing tribe and to support her in raising funds to record this seminal release in 2020.

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Jaraneh Nova on Radio Venice

Radio Venice S15.E09 – November 22, 2020
Radio Venice at Burning Man Day 6 – September 4, 2020
Radio Venice S14.E09 – July 5, 2020

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PayPal: jaraneh@gmail.com
Venmo: @jaraneh1

Sugar Rum Tantrum is an accordioniste-fronted blues, tango, and gypsy-jazz-inspired original music with Amy Winehouse-esque vocals and Stromae’s sizzling French-feeling grooves, all lead by a sensual multi-lingual performer, Sugar Rum. This spicy folk ensemble is working on a string of singles and EPs release before the end of the year. From stomping folk in the streets to creating the occasional immersive theatrical experience, Sugar Rum has also sold out Sofar Sounds shows in Los Angeles, as well as being featured in NPR’s Latin X finalists for the Tiny Desk Contest.

The ringleader and frontwoman of Sugar Rum Tantrum, Melinda West, is a Los Angeles accordion staple. Though she started her career playing in bawling bars and beside festival fire dancers, within the past year she has performed at the Hollywood Bowl and with the LA Philharmonic . A graduate of UCLA, she has composed and conducted at Royce Hall, in the past year her duo, Zingarella, has performed a string of performances at the Skirball Cultural Center. Most recently, she performed at the Getty Villa as part of an experimental puppet theater piece inspired by a classical Greek tragedy. With her eclectic experiences as an accordionist and songwriter, she is a seamstress of melodies, singing a passionate fiery elixir held together by groove and chaos, as Sugar Rum.

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