INTRODUCING THE PUSH COLLECTIVE

The Push Collective is a community of female and non-binary identifying musicians who are dedicated to restructuring the way music is born. We share our skills, our knowledge, and our resources to provide sustainable development to ourselves and one another. We answer the question of what it takes to find success in our music careers by examining our inner truths and helping one another rediscover their own. We work hard to genuinely invest in one another’s progress, acting as dedicated creative midwives to our shared passion.

Once a month, we meet as a collective to connect, commune, and create together. We also hold an ongoing series of Incubators in which each artist has an opportunity to benefit from the collective hive mind and thoroughly delve into their own specific project. We learn from each other, encourage each other, provide for each other, and without straining, push each other towards exactly what we truly want.

Interested in working with the Push Collective? Email mcknz.mgmt@gmail.com for more info

JOIN US FOR OUR 2nd ANNUAL PUSH COLLECTIVE SHOWCASE

Streaming LIVE on Righteous Babe Records’ facebook.com/RBRecords

Monday 3/8 @ 7:30P EST

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Natalie Mack is an NYC-based artist and educator. She is a proud member of Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, and teaches Drama & Humanities at The Institute for Collaborative Education. Her most recent projects include: Trusty Sidekick’s THE GOSPEL ELECTRIC (Park Avenue Armory, winter 2019), THE MENDELSSOHN ELECTRIC (Park Avenue Armory, winter 2018), and Finegan Kruckemeyer's THE FALLS (Unconformity Festival, fall 2018). Natalie is releasing her first solo album of original songs, Robin’s Egg Blue, this spring. Stayed tuned for more on Insta @natmackattack & Natmack.com

ELLEN WINTER

Ellen Winter is a performer, composer, and theater-maker from the woods of Fairfax, VA currently based in Brooklyn. In 2017, she and writing partner, Chris Littler, co-directed/wrote/composed 36 Questions the podcast musical, starring Jonathan Groff and Jessie Shelton. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Playbill, and Marie Claire. Residencies include Ars Nova's Maker's Lab, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Drop Forge and Tool, and Barn Arts Collective. Since 2018, she's performed and written songs with the Story Pirates for their Gimlet podcast. Ellen's also 1/5 of nerd-rock group Chamber Band, and together they have three albums and three national tours under their belts. Right now, she's in post production for her debut solo album, Every Feeling I've Ever Felt. You can catch her playing an upright piano named Edith every first Sunday at Freddy's in Brooklyn. Oh and she already loves your dog. @itsellenwinter

STAV G

New York-based vocal artist Stav G brings her own mix of Mediterranean and Western music to life in an electro-acoustic computer-based live set. After releasing her debut album in May 2018, she adjusts its rich Sound design into a solo performance with vocal loops, sound samples, keyboards, and tap dance percussive.

BARRIE LOBO McLAIN

Barrie Lobo McLain is a Brooklyn-based performing artist and creator. Selected credits include The Bengsons' Hundred Days (NYTW, La Jolla, US tour), Bernstein’s MASS (Ravinia, PBS), Sleep No More (NYC), Kansas City Choir Boy with Courtney Love (HERE NYC, A.R.T., US tour), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse.) Musical collaborations with Sherie Rene Scott, Andrew Rannells, Julie Klausner, Jo Lampert, Todd Almond, and Liz Swados. Composer for Ars Nova’s recent production of Folk Wandering, currently recording an original solo album. BFA NYU Tisch.

SYD CALDERA

Syd Caldera is a singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her 2019 release, a four-song EP entitled Hasta La Bye Bye, was recorded from her bedroom studio in Brooklyn and mixed and mastered by LA-based producer Jonah Wei-Haas. In May of 2019, Syd was honored to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, to compete and perform songs from Hasta La Bye Bye, as a finalist in the New Song Songwriters' Competition at the LEAF Festival. The following August, she was a featured artist on the Songwriter Deathmatch Radio Show out of Maker Park Radio in Staten Island. Past projects include Tulsa indie rock band Atlas of the Stars, Oregon girl band Gravy Jones and the Biscuit Chicks, folk and western swing street band The S Band, and New York subway performers The Pizza Bats. Right now, Syd is recording her third EP, scheduled for release in the next year. Find Hasta La Bye Bye and earlier recordings on all major streaming platforms, and connect with her on instagram @sydsongs. 

JOCELYN MACKENZIE

Jocelyn Mackenzie is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, percussionist, songwriting coach, artist, and stylist. She is currently producing her first full-length solo album PUSH, written for string quartet, voice, and synth percussion about healing through radical self love. Best known as the singing drummer from indie-pop trio Pearl and the Beard (2007-2015), Mackenzie and bandmates Emily Hope Price and Jeremy Lloyd-Styles created a unique, infectious blend of folk pop music infused with luscious harmonies and deep joy. As a fine artist, Jocelyn’s work centers around textiles, wearable art, zero waste fashion, styling, and performance art. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005) and is skilled in costume making, knitting, crochet, graphic design, and fabrication. At her core, Jocelyn is an intuitive empath who uses her finely tuned senses to integrate media and meaning to create work that is both sensual and personal. She would love to collaborate with you.

MIWA GEMINI

It’s hard to describe the music of Miwa Gemini.  Much like the name suggests their sound is mercurial, drawing influences that range from Erik Satie to Beyoncé.  Their songs are soaked in an old whiskey barrel, dried off a balcony in Paris, then polished by the hustle and bustle of NYC.  Their unique blend of watertight harmony is accompanied by a simple yet intricate instrumentation, and their infectious melodies will have you smiling in no time. 

AVIVA JAYE

Aviva Jaye is a performing artist primarily creating music, wielding voice, keys, harp, guitar + ukulele. Her interdisciplinary work includes theatre, dance, composition + poetry. Aviva currently focuses on performative projects that highlight empathy, self-awareness + social justice. Recent features include World Premiere by Nic Kay: [GET WELL SOON] you black + bluised; Queer Abstract, Brooklyn’s monthly performance series for QTPOC artists; “Four Questions”, a Pride production at LaMama; the Civic Salon series at The Public + Spring 2018 Artist-In-Residence program at Guildhall in East Hampton.  

SANDRA KLUGE

Sandra Kluge is a tap percussionist born in Germany, based in Brooklyn, and performing and teaching internationally. She is writing, recording, and performing her own original tap music as well as sharing the healing powers of frequency, rhythm, and sound with artists such as Joanna Schubert and Stav G, with whom she regularly performs at NYC venues. Her performance highlights include Thomas Marek's show NOLA, the Tap Dance Days festival, Swiss Tap Days, Düsseldorf Photo Weekend, Symphony Space, LaGuardia PAC, Judson Church, Piano's, The Duke on 42nd St, Basilica Hudson, and many more. Sandra has been invited to teach at renowned facilities such as tanzhaus nrw,  tap club, and Spoke The Hub, and to be a teaching artist in residence at Thomas Marek's Studio Footprints. She also accompanies yoga classes, using sand and tap percussion, keys, vocals, and other ambient sounds to weave sound carpets full of warmth and tranquility. Sandra is an alumna of the Art Omi Music Fellowship Program.