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The following "Occupy Musicians" put their name to a statement in solidarity with the Occupy Movement, reading "We, the undersigned musicians and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.":[1]
- Aadam Jacobs, audio/video recording (Sonic Archives)
- Aaron Darter, guitarist, Attack the World. producer, Stone Otis Studios
- Aaron DeMuth, bass, libyans
- Aaron Dugan, guitarist
- Aaron Fowler, Singer/Songwriter/teaching Artist, AFM Local 1000 (Wichita, KS OccupyWichita.org)
- Aaron J. Johnson, Charles Tolliver Big Band, Oliver Lake Band, Love Unlimited Trio.
- Adam Brzycki, Skyshatter/The Just Reverie/Greenroom
- Adam Denton, Deas & Denton, Trans/Human, Co-Fragilities
- Adam Lawrence
- Adam LeRoy, guitar, Ferndale Acid Scene
- Adam Rudolph, Meta Records
- Adam Holquist, onewayness
- Adam Schatz, Search and Restore
- Adam Scherer, guitarist/composer/music educator
- Adam Simonsen, clarinetist, Royal Danish Opera
- Addam Zaino, guitar/vocals, NERVOUS (Boston, MA)
- Adrià Casas Comelles, singer, composer, BLÄUE
- Adrian Knight, composer
- Aidan Eubanks, aka Moon River (Washington, DC)
- Ainjel Emme, Songwriter / Musician / Producer
- Akil Talib, Jurassic 5
- Alexandra Honigsberg: viola, violin, French horn, voice, songwriter Local 802 AFoM, Regina Opera, ASCAP, Fiddle Chicks, Treasure House Music, La Via Della Rosa, Manhattan Wind Ensemble, Columbia Summer Winds, Queer Urban Orchestra, NYSCA ( New York, NY)
- Alexander Sims, Composer, Bassist, Sound Engineer — Distorted Victim
- Alex Legg, Songwriter, Australia/Scotland
- Alex Maiolo, Guitarist, Fan Modine, Soft Company
- Alex Strama, MT6 Records / Newagehillbilly
- Alfonso Fontaina, composer and producer, Indeeveeduo
- Alldae Audacious, vocalist/emcee/freedom fighter (Stow, OH)
- Allen Otte, Percussion Group Cincinnati
- Alicia Svigals, violin (NYC)
- Amanda Palmer
- Amar Chaudhary, Electronics, computer, piano, keyboard (San Francisco, CA)
- Amos Levy, DJ/Producer/Educator, Pittsburgh
- Amy Haltom, violist and violinist, teacher (San Francisco Bay area, California)
- Amy Klein, Hilly Eye, Amy Klein & the Blue Star Band
- Andersen Silva, guitar-playing singer/songwriter, Lyndhurst, NJ
- Andras Fekete, guitarist/composer, Boat Burning, Triangle Rhysing, Thee Dirtybeats
- Andrea C. Miklasz
- Andrea Centazzo
- Andrea Van Cleef, singer/songwriter; bass and guitar
- Andrea Williams, sound artist, 23five
- Andres Molina
- Andrew Bernstein, composer/saxophonist/electronic musician
- Andrew Bowen
- Andrew Raffo Dewar, composer & saxophonist
- Andrew Weathers, composer, Full Spectrum Records, Tethers, Parties (Oakland, CA)
- Andy Goncalves – Singer/ songwriter, Guitarist and vocalist
- Andy Nelson, Paint It Black, Ceremony (Philadelphia, PA)
- Andy Pohl, guitarist, The Snipers, co-founder of Sell The Heart Records
- Andy Shernoff, songwriter, producer, singer, and bass player (NYC)
- Andy Williamson, Saxophonist
- Angel Reyes, Waco Girls (Texas)
- Anne Hege, composer/vocalist
- Ann Tappan, jazz piano, MJ Williams Trio, Kelly Roberti Trio, Springhill (Bozeman, MT)
- Annie Enke
- Anthony William Herndon
- Anthony Parrotta, SOUP
- Anthony Pateras, Composer and Pianist, Thymolphthalein / PIVIXKI
- Antipop, aka Christophe from Telepopmusik (Paris, France)
- Antonio Macomber, The Stolen Mural (Portland, Maine)
- Aram Bajakian, Aram Bajakian’s Kef
- Ari Herstand, singer/songwriter
- Armando Bayolo, DMA, Artistic Director and Conductor Great Noise Ensemble
- Arms Aloft (Wisconsin)
- Arnold Lane, percussionist, composer (London)
- Assif Tsahar
- The Avalanches (Australia)
- Ayisha Jaffer, Punkdafunk
- BJ Bonin, Demolition Means Progress
- BJ Warshaw, Parts & Labor / Cardboard Records
- Barbara Dane
- Barbette Falk, Quartette Barbette Sax Quartet
- Barry Walsh
- BassDbler, JD Short, bass & programming
- Basya Schechter
- Beasts Of No Nation (Washington, DC)
- Ben Babbitt, composer, This is Cinema/Pillars and Tongues (Chicago, IL)
- Ben Cox, guitarist, singer, Mimic the French (Cambridge, MA/Cincinnati, OH)
- Ben Furstenberg
- Ben Goldberg, composer
- Ben Griggs, guitar + vox, Father President (San Francisco, CA)
- Ben Sterling, Cookies
- Ben Syversen, Raya Brass Band
- Benedict Kupstas, Future Wife / Yer Sweet Chimneys / Fabulous Muscles
- Benjamin Wohlfarth, Industrial Horror Pop
- BenJaMun, singer/songwriter, Cedar Break Recording, Benjakat Music, ASCAP (Wimberley, Texas)
- Bert Dockx, The Flying Horseman / Dans Dans (Antwerp, Belgium)
- Beth Custer
- Beth Gottlieb, Vocals and Flute “Friends of Chloe/ Sump Pumps (Chicago, IL)
- Betsi Krisniski, singer/songwriter (Hudson, NY)
- Beverly Woods, songwriter, singer: hammered dulcimer, tsimbl, piano, organ and other keyboards, accordion, 6- and 7-string guitars, autoharp, mandolin, bouzouki, pennywhistle, hand percussion, fretted dulcimer, folk harp, concertina, nyckelharpa, tenor banjo, and hurdy-gurdy (Wolfeboro, NH)
- Bilal Salaam, voice, Newark, NJ
- Bill Champitto, Piano, Organ, Keys, Singer, Songwrite
- Bill Frisell, (Musician)
- Billie Ray Martin, singer/songwriter/producer/label owner/performer, Disco Activisto Records
- Billy Roues, guitar, mandolin, songwriter, UpSouth Twisters, Thieves, Finn and the Sharks
- Björn Eriksson
- Blackbox Joe, Val Sinestra (Berlin, Germany)
- Blake Walker, recording engineer, Black Viking Studios
- Bob Lukomski, composer, New Paltz
- Bob Marsh, director Emergency String (X)tet
- Bob Ostertag, musician, composer, writer
- Bob Strain, pianist and composer, Sinistral3 jazz trio
- Bobby Cardos/Doubting Thomas Cruise Control (Brooklyn, NY)
- Bobby Hanna, singer, bassplayer
- Bobby Mitchell, pianist, keyboardist, musician
- Bombskare (Andy Pennycuick, Murray Graham, Scott McCafferty, Joe Burden, Sam Mcleod, Matt Bartlett, Colin McCafferty, Mike Knox, Calum Mackie Cummins)
- Bonnie Hayes
- Bonnie Whiting Smith, Percussionist and arts educator, University of California San Diego/red fish blue fish percussion group
- Borja Penalba, Guitar and bass player, Composer, Arranger and Music Producer
- BORTS MINORTS, Electric musical ski player
- Bosley Mongo
- Brad Cole, producer/arranger/keyboardist, Phil Collins, Johnny Hallyday, Hugues Aufray, etc.
- Braeden Henderson, Guitar, Owl Fly South
- BRAIN, Quixote
- Brandon Eggleston, freelance producer/engineer
- Brandon Hurtado, guitar, keyboard, Max/MSP
- Breakin Chainz and Chairo 9 (Arthur Brown & Rutha Brown)
- Brendan Burke, Electronics, Interbellum, (Chicago, IL)
- Brent Magstadt, guitar, bass, mandolin, voice, Hilo, Hawai’i
- Brett Netson, guitarist, Built to Spill, Caustic Resin (Boise, Idaho)
- Brian Calhoon, percussion/marimba/voice
- Brian Case, Disappears
- Brian DeGraw, synthesizers, percussion, electronics for Gang Gang Dance / DJ
- Brian Horst, sound sculptor, The Noisettes (Austin TX)
- Brian Miller, Foot Village (Los Angeles, CA)
- Brian Paulson, producer/engineer for Superchunk/Wilco/Beck, etc.
- Brian Virtue, Producer
- Brian Yoder, guitarist/bassist, Archers (Portland, OR)
- Brothers Bear Arms: Sam Pritchard – Drums, Dan Pritchard – Guitars/Synthesizer, Simon Puckey – Vocals/Musical Ephemera/Inspirational Spiritual Oratory
- Bruce Ackley, Rova Saxophone Quartet
- Bruce Christian Bennett
- Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
- Buffalo Stance (Long Beach, CA)
- Burton Greene, piano, Burton Greene Trio and Quartet, Klez-Edge, Klezmokum
- Caleb Talbert, guitarist/composer/songwriter, Cold Water Theater (Seattle, WA)
- Calvin Weston
- Cameron Lewis, Ipecac Loop
- Camilla Wynne Ingr, Sunset Rubdown
- Carl Hauck, solo musician (north of Chicago)
- Carl Michel, guitarist/composer, Play On Records
- Carlos Zavala, Bass, Torreblanca (Mexico City)
- Carmine Covelli, The Julie Ruin
- Carolyn Bremer, composer (Long Beach, CA)
- Carolyn Stuart, Professor of Violin, University of South Florida
- Carolyn Studer, pianist
- Carolyn Wonderland Band (Carolyn Wonderland, Cole El-Saleh, Robert Michael Hooper)
- Casey Tuck, drummer with Measure, teacher
- Casey Neill, guitar, vocals, songs, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Minus 5, KMRIA (Portland, OR)
- Cat Martino, Singer / songwriter
- Chad Birdsall, Singer/Songwriter, Godzilla (Inland Empire, CA)
- Charles A. Turner, Composer (Danvers, Massachusetts)
- Charles Therrell (a/k/a DISK DOKTOR)
- Charles Whalen, composer, Paquito D’Rivera/Greenbug Productions, founder, Radio Orchestra New York
- Charlie Woodburn, Drums and Percussion, Session Drummer (Los Angeles)
- Cheetah Chrome, guitar, Rocket From The Tombs/ Dead Boys/The Batusis
- Chelsey Weber-Smith, songwriter, guitar and vocals (Charlottesville, VA)
- Chester Hawkins, Blue Sausage Infant
- Ches Smith
- Chip Michael, composer, Twinstar Music, Interchanging Idioms
- Chris Algoo
- Chris Alvarado, acoustic guitar, vox (Destin, FL)
- Chris Andersen, electric bass, Jack Mercer and the Whiskey Bandit (Vancouver, BC)
- Chris Bottomley, singer/bassplayer / Bass, drums, guitar, percussion, vocals and songwriting, RAINFUDGE (Toronto, Canada)
- Chris Cochrane
- Chris Glover, Penguin Prison (New York City)
- Chris Funk, Guitar, Banjo, Pedal Steel, Mandolin, Decemberists / Black Prairie / King Charles Trio (Portland, OR)
- Chris Letcher, composer
- Chris Xefos, Musician/Producer/Recording Engineer/DJ/former member of King Missile (San Francisco, CA)
- Chriss Sutherland, Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire, and Olas
- Christa Van Alstine
- Christian Dixon, Death Sentence: PANDA! (retired), Earth Jerks, Cops, Drums, bass, electronics
- Christian Marclay
- Christopher Genetti, electronic music producer and DJ (Detroit)
- Christopher James Gregg, Saxophone, Guitar, Bass, Drums/Percussion, Cello, Clarinet, Voice, Audio Engineer/Producer, Composer/Arranger, Music Store Owner (Los Angeles, CA and Lexington, NC)
- Christopher R. Acree, violinist, musician (Nashville, TN)
- Christopher Smith Producer/recording engineer/electronic musician & Bassist with The Fractal Skulls and Sonic Rising (London)
- Christopher Swithinbank, composer
- Christopher Walker, composer
- Chris Wiggins and What You Will (Chris Wiggins-singer/songwriter, guitarist, Jenni Wiggins-banjo, back up vocals, Kelsey Dolan-mandolin, back up vocals, Dianne Johnston-percussion, back up vocals, Ike Eickstaedt-percussion, back up vocals, trumpet, flugel horn, Leighton LaBorde-bass (electric and stand up), back up vocals) Austin, TX
- Chuck Bettis, experimental electronic & vocal composer
- Chuck Johnson, musician, composer (Oakland, CA)
- Cian Nugent, guitar (Dublin, Ireland)
- City Fritter, Jewels Nation Johnny Nation
- Cochrane McMillan, drummer, Tea Leaf Green and producer, engineer, and studio owner of Coyote Hearing (Oakland, CA)
- Cole El-Saleh, Keyboardist/Key-Bassist, The Carolyn Wonderland Band (Austin, TX)
- Colin Bradley, Guitarist / writer / producer / sound designer / sound recordist (UK)
- Colin LaVaute, Decadent Nation
- Colt Pope, SOUP
- Connor Bell, guitar, voice, synths/keys, computers, bass, production, Shedding
- Conor Bourgal, guitar, vocals, The Changing Colors Colorado
- Coralie Lonfat
- Corey Dargel, Composer, Singer, Songwriter, New Amsterdam Records (Brooklyn, NY)
- Cornelius Cardew Choir
- Cumhur Avcil, drummer at Cilekes (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Curtis Roush, guitarist and singer, The Bright Light Social Hour (Austin, TX)
- Craig Balan (NYC)
- Craig Fu Yong, The Degenerics, Kamikaze, Plastic Cross, Soul Rebel Records
- Crystal Pascucci, cellist/composer/improviser
- D-Rock, MC
- DJ Neva, aka Music for the Masses, Ethnomusicologist/DJ/Producer (Jersey City, NJ)
- DJ Pain 1, Producer and DJ (Madison, WI)
- DJ Rupture, Mudd Up!
- DJ Scribe, aka Ben Goldfarb (NYC)
- Dabbles in Bloom
- Dallas Thompson, SLATES, Fractal Pattern (Edmonton, Canada)
- Damh the Bard, Acoustic guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, celtic harp, mandola, singer/songwriter. (near Brighton, Sussex)
- Damon Krukowski, Damon & Naomi
- Dan Baker, guitar/vocals, Friends In Distraction
- Dan Deacon
- Dan Friel
- Dan Lippel
- Dana Lyn, violinist/composer
- Dana Wachs, Sound Reinforcement
- Dane Palmer, marimba
- Dan Roberts, Songwriter (Waltham, MA)
- Dan Siegler, producer/composer, keys, guitar, bass, drums (NYC)
- Daniel Berthiaume, musician (guitar) songwriter, The Insecure
- Daniel Brummel
- Daniel Felsenfeld, composer
- Daniel Levine, trumpet player and composer, Screaming Coyote and Bonaventure Merriwether III and founding member, Musicians Solidarity Council
- Daniel Rossen, Grizzly Bear
- Daniel Wilcox, guitar, The Ugly Beats, December Boys, The Strange Attractors, and Forever Changes (Austin, TX)
- Danny Kopij Songwriter, Vocalist, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Engineer, Producer Life After Living / The Fortress / All In Vain
- Darcy James Argue, composer, conductor, bandleader
- Darlene Koldenhoven, vocalist/recording artist, songwriter, composer, producer, keyboardist, arranger, author, music educator, voice teacher (Los Angeles, CA)
- Dary John Mizelle, Mizelle Music, FHE Creative and performing Arts Inc., Orchestra of Our Time
- Dave Allen, Gang of Four
- Dave Bryson, drums for Son Volt, Thalia Zedek Band, Hallelujah the HIlls
- Dave Friedrich, Bass @ Censors, Guitar @ The Nix86 (Valley Stream, NY)
- Dave McGilton, singer/composer/writer
- Dave W. (WHITE HILLS)
- David Abel, Bass/Guitar, Fly Ashtray/Autobody/squinchy (Queens, NY)
- David Bloom, conductor, Contemporaneous
- David Borsu, DJ & Producer, Belgium
- David Crosby
- David Enke
- David Everson, Composer (UK)
- David Fetherolf, composer, (NYC)
- David Grubbs, solo, and Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol, and the Red Krayola.
- David Higgins, Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter (Whittier, CA)
- David Joyce, singer, keyboards, composer
- David Knopfler
- David Konopnicki, Autoryno
- David Larstein, composer, songwriter, producer
- David Levin, Sound Engineer, Brooklyn NYC
- Dave Martin
- David McIntire, composer/sound artist
- David Moss, Atomic Wonderland, Rock Hop Ninjas
- David Rosenbloom
- David T. Little, composer/performer
- David Toub, composer
- Davis McGraw, guitar & vocals, The Pilgrims (VT)
- Dayna Kurtz, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, singer, guitarist
- dB, vocals, guitar, Zen Arcadia (Occupy Sacramento, CA)
- Dean DeMerritt, upright and electric bass (Atlanta, GA)
- Dean J Grenier, aka DJG, electronic musician and DJ (San Francisco)
- Deborah Dietrich, singer/musician, Music Together teacher, Valley Cat Music (Los Angeles, CA)
- Debora Iyall, singer, songwriter, vocalist and founder of Romeo Void
- Dellic, singer, song writer, performer, producer, lyricists, instrumentalist, Revolutionistic Ent.
- Demetrius Spaneas, Soloist/Composer, New York City
- Derek Bermel, composer
- Derrick Procell, singer/songwriter, piano, harmonica
- Derek Torres, writer/singer/producer T0W3RS, Diggup Tapes, (Chapel Hill/Carrboro NC) and Lilac Shadows/Soft Company
- Devin Sarno, Bass (Los Angeles, CA)
- Dick Destiny, guitarist/songwriter
- Dispaxis (Devon)
- DJ Neva, Ethnomusicologist/DJ/Producer, Music for the Masses
- Doll Eyes
- Dominique Leone, composer, producer & writer
- Donna DiNovelli, librettist, lyricist
- Donna Jay Rubin, singer/ songwriter/ guitar, Fists of Love (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Donna S. Kline, Pianist/author/filmmaker
- Donovan Quixote, composer, electronics/guitar (Asheville, NC)
- Dony Wynn
- Dorian Detring, “compact”
- Doug Wieselman
- Dougie Bowne
- Drew Daniel, Matmos / The Soft Pink Truth
- Drew Harmon, The Stolen Mural
- Drop Electric (Washington, DC)
- Drunken Sufis: John Thayer (Drums, Samples, Engineer), Tommy Siegel (Guitar, Vox), Aaron Leeder (Guitar, Vox), Dave Cohen (Keyboards, Vox), Brett Niederman (Bass, Vox)
- Dustin Wong, solo musician and co-founder of Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine
- Duvestar (Marie Glad & Oisin Lunny) (Hove UK)
- Dylan Maida
- Eco, electronic music producer, Armada Music (NYC)
- Eddie Adams, guitar, drums, harmonica, piano, singer, composer/lyricist and producer/sound engineer
- Edward Landis, Interplanetary Floral Star Records
- Elenna Canlas, Keyboards/Vocals, Easy Star All-Stars
- Eleonor Sandresky, composer and pianist
- Eliane Lust, Le Piano Studio
- Elias Gwinn, Record Producer, Velidoxi.com
- Emily Jones, multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, producer/engineer
- Emily Lacy
- Emily Manzo, pianist, Christy & Emily, Till by Turning
- Emma Alabaster
- Enter Shikari: Rou Reynolds – Vocals, Electronics, Rory Clewlow – Guitar, Chris Batten – Bass, Rob Rolfe – Drum (London, UK)
- The Employees
- Eric Beach, So Percussion
- Eric Blitz, drummer False Prophets, Kommunity FK
- Eric Budd, guitar w/ SLATES, keyboards w/ Our Mercury & Operators 780 (Edmonton, AB)
- Eric Capone Project, Scottsdale, AZ
- Eric Cartier, drums, The Banned Books (Austin, TX)
- Eric Honour, Composer/Saxophonist/Audio Engineer (Kansas City, MO)
- Eric Jordan, composer/musician (Portland, OR)
- Erick Ponce, Multimedios Radio, Monterrey, Mexico
- Erick Rarick, Countertenor, San Diego
- Erik Shepard (Atlanta, GA)
- Evan Greer, Riot-Folk! Collective, AFM Local 1,000 (Boston, MA)
- Evan Parker, Psi Records UK
- Evan Stover, violin/fiddle, Walt Michael and Company, Vanaver Caravan
- Ezra Feinberg, Citay
- Felipe Navarrete, Bass, Kooma (Ecuador)
- Fergal Keenan, music producer and DJ, Glasgow
- Filmstrip (Cleveland, OH)
- Flat Field Records
- Flint (Edmonton, Alberta)
- Florent Ghys
- Forest Christenson, composer/electronic musician/violinist
- Frank Clare, Piano
- Franklin Bruno
- Franz Nicolay
- Fred Castadot, guitarist, The Poontang’s Explosion (Belgium)
- Fred Sokolow
- Frederic Rzewski, MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva)
- Free Energy (Nicholas Shuminsky, Paul Sprangers, Evan Wells, Scott Wells)
- The Fucktrots (Boston, MA)
- Gabriel Saloman, GMS, Yellow Swans
- Gabrielle Louise
- Gaëtan Seguin, three:four records
- Il Gato (Daimian Holiday Scott, songwriter, Andrew Thomas, bass, Johnny Major, drums)
- Gak Sato
- Garrett Shatzer, composer
- Gaston Zirko, Situasonic Music
- GE and Jeff
- Geoffrey Burleson, pianist
- Geneviève Castrée, O Paon
- George Art Baker, Soundtrack Composer, Songwriter & Producer, The Smoke Thief, Aeon Bard (Brighton, United Kingdom)
- George Kramer, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Vox, Engineer, Producer, Studio Tech Support (Austin, TX)
- George M. Johnson, composer, arranger, fiddler, Global Warning
- Gerry Hemingway, Nagual Music
- The Glitch Mob
- GONDO (Chicago, IL)
- Gordon Beeferman
- Gordon Gottlieb, (percussionist)
- Gonzalo Leal, Guitar, Bass, Synth, Armonica (Barcelona, Spain)
- Graham Nash
- Grand Official: producer Isaac Chavira ( a.k.a. A ONE), producer Jason Alvarado (a.k.a. Grip), Christian Cetina (a.k.a. DJ HALLUCIN8), Matt Amperano (a.k.a. A-DOSE), MC Adrian Nevarez (a.k.a. ADLIFE)
- The Great American Canyon Band - Paul Masson & Krystal Jean Masson – (Chicago, IL)
- Greg Fox, drummer, multi-instrumentalist
- Gregory Brown
- Gretchen Peters
- Greta Gertler (voice, piano, songs), The Universal Thump, Goldfish Prize, and the Occupy Wall Street Ladies’ Choir (See here too)
- Grey Mcmurray, guitarist, singer, songwriter (Knights On Earth, itsnotyouitsme)
- Guido Corleone, AKA Chris Devcich, Luminaries, Bell Rang Records
- Guy Klucevsek, Composer/Accordionist
- Guy Picciotto, Fugazi
- Guy Schwartz, singer/songwriter/bandleader (Texas)
- Haji Mike, Dub Poet & DJ (Nicosia, Cyprus)
- Hammer and Champion, hip hop artists (Denver, Colorado)
- Hanin Elias, ex Atari Teenage Riot
- Ha-Yang Kim, composer, cellist
- Harriet Jerusha Korim, singer-song-writer
- Harris Pittman, Bassist (Los Angeles)
- Harrison Shulman, Guitar for Craig Mitchell & Motor City, Project Organ Trio
- Harry Nagle, musician, producer, songwriter
- Hayden Who, saxophone, drums, and guitar for local bands (Toronto, Canada)
- Heather Laurel, Soprano (NYC)
- Heber Sanz, Rondibull
- Heidi Lesemann, general music manager
- Heidi Vanderlee, cellist, Amy Klein and the Blue Star Band
- Herb Hecsch, clarinetist, music educator
- Hernan Tasies, songwriter/vocalist, James Catholic and The Sects (San Jose, Costa Rica)
- Hollow Island (Toronto, Canada)
- The HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands
- Howlin’ Woods
- Howth (Aviva Stampfer, Blake Luley, Carl Creighton, Neil Acharya, Jeremy Duvall)/Brooklyn, NY
- Hugh Levick, composer
- HYIM, vocalist, keyboardist/pianist, guitarist, composer, producer (Oakland, CA)
- Ian Gilson, aka HolyMole, mashup vocalist and former Guinness world record holder for continuous singing (UK)
- Ian Hawkins, bassist,The Underhanded, Australia
- Ian MacKaye, Dischord Records, The Evens, Fugazi, Embrace, Minor Threat, Teen Idles
- Ian Miller, drums, vocals, Destroyed but Not Defeated (Vienna, Austria)
- Ian Parton, The Go! team (Brighton UK)
- Ida Ott, violinist and music educator (Bethel, CT)
- Immortal Ali, hip hop artist/producer (Chicago, IL)
- Indian Jewelry
- Irene Sazer
- Isaac Priestley, guitar, vocals, production, (World Racketeering Squad)
- I See Hawks (Los Angeles)
- Isidor Saslav, concert violinist and concertmaster
- J. Britt Robisheaux of Theater Fire, Drug Mountain, Most Efficient Women (Fort Worth, Texas)
- Jack E. Stanley, drummer, guitarist, vocalist, composer, Cursed Arrows
- Jack Grace
- Jack Hertz, sound designer
- Jackson Browne
- Jack Stone, whole band (South Africa)
- Jail Biggum, electric guitar, vocals songwriter (Austin, Texas)
- Jake Wolos, music teacher and jazz student at Richard Stockton College
- James Chiappini, keyboards, performer, educator
- James Jackson Toth, Wooden Wand
- Jason Hatfield, songwriter, musician, singer, Junko Records
- Jason Heath, Singer Songwriter-Guitar/Vocals (Jason Heath & The Greedy Souls)
- Jason Moore, percussionist and vocals
- Jason Stavroplos, composer, producer, engineer
- James Swahl, Guitarist, Composer, Multi-intrumentalist (Pottstown, PA)
- Javier Aladren, guitar, piano, and ukulele (Winter’s Tale Records)
- James Greer, Guided By Voices, Detective
- James Harrison, instrumentalist, producer
- James Pelletier, drummer, The Habit (Brooklyn/NYC)
- James Pugliese
- Jamie Kelly, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Synthesizers, Vocals, Percussion, Golden Tarot (Huntington, West Virginia)
- Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu
- Jane Vincent, keyboards and vocals, Abiku
- Janet Feder
- Janet Furman, bass player, Chick Jagger and the Sticky Fingers (San Francisco)
- Janine Wanée, mezzo-soprano
- Jason Eckardt
- Jason Edward Kocol, guitarist/vocalist, Impaled
- Jason Gray, Guitarist, Sound Collaborator, Keyboards, Synth for WeatherExposed / Saudade
- Jason Treuting, So Percussion
- J. Rohm guitar, FLOORS
- Jay C. Batzner, composer
- Jay Schaffner, former executive board member, Local 802, American Federation of Musicians
- JD Foster, NYC
- Jeb Bishop, trombonist
- Jeff Crosby, Guitar, Piano, Voice, Jeff Crosby & The Refugees, Equaleyes, Ladytramp (Boise, ID / Los Angeles, CA)
- Jeff Newman, Hunters, Run! (New York City)
- Jeff Smith, guitarist, songwriter and music therapist (Victoria BC, Canada)
- Jeff Surak, sound artist, Zeromoon, curator, Sonic Circuits – director
- Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, Guantanamo School of Medicine, Alternative Tentacles Records
- Jen David, Illy Mack
- Jen Shyu, Jade Tongue
- Jennifer Castle, Songwriter, Flemish Eye (Toronto, Canada)
- Jennifer Lane
- Jenny Graf
- Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz, singer and lyricist, Mz. Pakman and Rubber Room Rats, Doll Hospital
- Jenny Scheinman
- Jeremiah Bornfield
- Jeremiah Cymerman
- Jérôme Minière (Montreal, Canada)
- Jeremy Pickett, Bassist, Guitarist, Producer and owner of Dead Sparrow Records.
- Jeremy Podgursky, Composer
- Jeremy Toback of Chop Love Carry Fire / Renee&Jeremy / Brad
- Jesse Luscious, singer, Blatz, The Gr’ups, The Criminals, The Frisk
- Jesse Munro Johnson, electronic music composer, label owner, Boomarm Nation
- Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, Meat Parade, Escapists
- Jesse Rifkin (of The Wailing Wall and Boy King Island); Brooklyn, NY
- Jesse Zante
- Jessi Olsen, singer Boom Bits (NYC)
- Jewlia Eisenberg, Charming Hostess
- Jim Altieri, composer / violinist / accordionist
- Jon Autry, multi-instrumentalist, producer/recording engineer, sound designer, Brooklyn, NY
- Jonathan Alvin, production and engineering (Chicago)
- Jonnie Bakan, saxophonist, Toronto
- Jim Butler
- Jim Countryman, bass, Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers, Lovewhip (Boston, MA)
- Jim Smith, The Smell (Los Angeles), olFactory Records
- Joan Wile, keyboards, lyrics, music, voice, founder, Grandmothers Against the War 2003, and member, Occupy Wall Street Anti-war Committee 2011
- Jochen Bohnes, musician
- Joe Caputo, Computo, Ill Pill Records
- Joe Dattilo, Guitar/Bass/Vocals. Solo Artist/the pissed infidels/Co-Owner of n0!sy records/(Self Proclaimed)Recording Engineer/Producer (Seymour/Shelton, CT)
- Joe Kidd, Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter, The Sedition World Orchestra
- Joe Merolla, Silver Process/Den Svarta Fanan/The Attitude Adjusters/Death First
- Joe Motor: Ian Pearson on drums, Bill Patterson on bass, Joe Motor on guitars and vocals (Seattle, WA)
- Joe Power, bassist, Codes In The Clouds
- Joel Graves, guitarist, Everest (Vapor Records), Co-Owner of New Monkey Studio (Los Angeles, CA)
- Joel Rafael
- Joel St. Julien, electronic musician/guitarist/vocalist, Ellul (San Francisco, CA)
- Jonathan Lee, Anduin , member of Souvenir’s Young America ( Richmond, VA)
- Jonathan Scott, the Doleful Lions
- John Clayton, bassist, composer
- John Halle, composer, Professor at Bard College
- John Iversen, El Norteamericano que Canta Tango
- John Pazdan, Bassist/Composer/Producer (Chicago, IL)
- John Pietaro, Xylophonist/Percussionist/Activist/Cultural Organizer (NYC)
- John Potenza, guitar, Gel
- John Sullivan, drummer & percussionist, Kid Savant (Brooklyn, NYC)
- John Zorn
- Johnny Gandelsman, In a Circle Records
- Johnny High Ground
- Jon Leidecker, Wobbly
- Jon Raskin, Rova Sax quartet
- Jon Rose, violinist, composer, improviser, instrument inventor
- Jonathan Edwards, Producer/Bassist, Drake Jensen, Sills and Smith, Corvidae Music
- Jonathan Green
- José A. Olivares, Balún / Arturo en el Barco
- Joseph Arthur
- Joseph Ohegyi, composer, editor, No Gang Colors
- Josh Atlas, Parakeets / Nara
- Josh Taylor, Foot Village and XBXRX
- Joshua Gunty, guitar, vocals, production
- Joshua Hensley, The Rutabega
- Joshua Wachtel, voice, guitars, Radio Free Earth, Cummington, Massachusetts
- J. P. Whipple, J.P.Whipple and The Filthy Whipple Medicine Show
- Judd Greenstein
- Julia Alford-Fowler, Composer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Julia Lucille
- Julian Morales (DJ Descent)
- Julian Woolsey, DJ, Perfect Prescription (Brooklyn, NY)
- Julie Judge, POKE
- Junkyard Empire
- Juri Member, Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, The Charcoal Sunset (Berlin, Germany)
- Justin Carter, multi-instrumentalist, Baretrees & Masuran, Austin/New York
- Justin Purtill- guitarist, bassist, composer
- Justin Rector, Lead Guitar/Vocals, Arae, The Q’s, Cutdance Heroes (Lexington, NC)
- Justin Walker, Singer Paul y Justin
- J. D. Nero
- Kai Lam, Guitar, Self-made instruments, Voice, Percussion and Sound-looper, Singapore
- Karl Berger
- Karney, vocs, guitars, bass, drums, trumpet, Independant Distribution Collective (San Francisco)
- Kasey Clark, Producer/Engineer/Punk Tree Records
- Kasey Fusco, instrument multi instrumentalist, audio engineer, Colorgun Recording Company (Ambridge, PA)
- Kate Steinbeck, Artistic Director/flutist, Pan Harmonia
- Kathi Wilcox, member of Bikini Kill/The Julie Ruin
- Katherine Sawyer, Wire Graffiti
- Kathleen Supové, Pianist/Performer
- Kathy Wilson, Pianist & Accompanist
- Kenneth Griffin, songwriter for Favourite Sons, Rollerskate Skinny and Kid Silver
- Kenny Feinstein, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle, The Water Tower Bucket Boys
- Kenny Werner
- Kevin Norton
- Kevin Seal, keyboards, Griddle, Michael Zapruder’s Rain of Frogs and Scott Pinkmountain & the Golden Bolts of Tone
- Kevin Seconds, singer-songwriter and lead vocalist, 7Seconds
- Kieran Hebden, Four Tet, London/New York
- Killed by 9V Batteries (Austria)
- Kip Uhlhorn, guitar, Cloudland Canyon, The Red Scare, Panthers, Eden Express, & Intercoastal Artists record label
- Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth
- Kimya Dawson (The Moldy Peaches/Antsy Pants/The Bundles)
- Kliph Scurlock, The Flaming Lips
- Kristin deWitt, session singer/performer
- Kristin Norderval, composer, performer, vocalist
- Kristine Reaume, Flutist and Educator (Austin, TX)
- Kurt Doles, composer; administrator, MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green State University
- Kurt Gottwald, guitarist for Cosmos Says Hello
- Kyle DeForrest, singer and songwriter (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Kyle Gann, composer
- Kyle McCormick, Shady Characters
- Lars Erik Ebbesen, GloomAndGlow, STMODM, Peeker
- Laura Lentz, flutist and teacher
- Laura Love
- Laurel Sprengelmeyer, aka Little Scream
- Lauren Ancona, percussion
- Laurie Anderson
- Lawrence Kole, Guitar, Vocals, composer, DGR/DWN (Grand Rapids, MI)
- Lee Knohl, lyrics/vocals, violin, trombone, percussion, harmonica and guitar (NYC)
- Lee Ranaldo, guitar, Sonic Youth
- The Legendary Clampetts (Springfield, Illinois)
- Lenorable (Ian Graham and Lisa Reed)
- Leo Traversa, bass (NYC)
- Lev, Occupy palazzo Giusso (Napoli, Italy)
- Levi Fuller
- Liam Finn, solo artist, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Theremin, Piano (Brooklyn, NY but from Auckland, New Zealand)
- Lian Amber, Songwriter, Producer and Vocalist (Austin TX)
- Libbie Jo Snyder, Flutist & Vocalist, Local 47 ( Los Angeles, CA)
- Lida Husik
- Life at Sea (Atlanta, GA)
- Lights Resolve (NYC)
- Lin Culbertson, White Out
- Linnus
- Lisa Firestone
- Lisa Laskowich, pianist / music director
- Lisa Schonberg, drummer of explode into colors, STLS, Kickball & Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
- Lori Goldston
- Lori Scacco, musician/composer, Seely, Storms
- Lou Reed
- Lua Hightower, composer, vocalist, instrumentalist, Vox Musica ensemble
- Lucas Johnson, composer/producer/DJ
- Lucia Fasano, Shady Characters
- Luis Naranjo, sheet metal and guitars, ParallaxScroll and Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television.
- Luke Fischbeck, Lucky Dragons (Occupy Music Series at The Smell, LA)
- Luke Krom, singer/songwriter, Dirty Malkovich, The Orange Pealer, Unearth
- The Lunar Asylum
- Malika Zarra
- Mallory Glaser, In One Wind
- Marc Jaffee, Composer, Performer, Producer (New York)
- Marc Ponomareff, Rocker Panel (Toronto, Canada)
- Marc Ribot
- Marc Urselli, EastSide Sound Studios
- Margaret Stowe, guitarist/bandleader
- Margot Leverett, clarinetist, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys (New York)
- Maria Kasstan, folkie, singer/songwriter, subway busker, and Raging Granny
- Marilyn Miller, a singer/songwriter (Hudson, NY)
- Mario Contreras, Multi Instrumentalist, and project leader for The Frail Winter (Amarillo, TX)
- Mark Beaumont, bass, The Love Taps
- Mark Gunnery, Riot Folk, Aryeh Gonif, the Fools, and Lightnin’ Seed (Baltimore, MD)
- Mark Reback, drums, bass, guitars, keys, in Black Hi-Lighter, drums in The Checkers
- Mark Reed, piano and other keyboards, Secretary-Treasurer of the Musicians’ Association of Victoria & the Islands – Local 247 of the Canadian Federation of Musicians (Victoria, BC)
- Mark Smollin, Drums, Artscape Studio (Pasadena CA)
- Mark Tetreault, Principal Tuba, Toronto Symphony Orchestra / Director of Symphonic Services, Canadian Federation of Musicians
- Mark Tulk, singer/songwriter/producer
- Marrik Layden Deft, musician, engineer, producer
- Mark Lucas, singer-songwriter, Mark Lucas & the Dead Setters (Sydney, Australia)
- Marlo Pedroso, guitarist, composer and vocalist, Sinnet (Boston, MA)
- Martin Bresnick, composer
- Martin Hula, aka Bonus (Prague, CZ)
- Martin Salvador Greco, Bass (Argentina)
- Maryelizabeth Carter, owner of The Underground Management
- Mary Ho, Noise Inc.
- Mary Honegger
- Mary Hylan, Singer, songwriter, guitarist
- Mary Jane Leach, composer
- The Mast
- Matana Roberts, saxophone
- Matt Arbogast, The Gunshy
- Matt Black, Coldcut/Ninjatune, mix medium
- Matt Ellis, singer songwriter, vocals / guitar
- Matt Flood, vocalist HKPOE!, founder, Asbestos Records
- Matt Mottel, keyboard Talibam!/Csc funk band/alien whale/platinum vision
- Matt Stephenson, aka Artie’s Kryptonite, electronic music, Arrow Mob
- Matt Stuttler, guitar, The Kerouacs
- Mat Von Thies, drummer, Pork ‘n Boots (Washington, DC)
- Matt Vecchio, vocals/drums/guitar for Contracide, The Mashers, The Plastik Explosives, and The End Is Now
- Matt Watts, Singer/Songwriter (Antwerp, Belgium)
- Matt Wood: guitar, piano, percussion, vocals, composition. Syracuse University Setnor School of Music.
- Matt Zeltzer, singer/songwriter (Ventura, CA)
- Matteo Moss
- Matthew Amundsen, Surface Hoar / Bat
- Matthew Liam Nicholson, multiinstrumentalist, composer, Function, Outshine Family
- Matthew Shaw, musician, artist, songwriter
- Matthias Koole, guitarist, Zwerm Electric Guitar Quartet
- Matthew Rahaim, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology (University of Minnesota), Hindustani vocalist (Gwalior Gharana)
- Maureen Herman, bass, Babes in Toyland
- Maurizio Naso, guitarist, Durga (Mata, Italy)
- Max Grogan, 1%FREE, Montreal, Canada
- Max Hodes, musician/producer/engineer Black Cosmic Mother, Colin L Orchestra, and La Otracina
- Max Jaffe, killer BOB, In One Wind
- Meerenai Shim, flutist (Occupy Music Festival, San Francisco)
- Mehmet Eren Altuniş, composer and pianist
- Melissa Caruso Scott, Tonic Kids
- Memet Incili, producer, composer, guitarist
- Merrill Garbus, Tune-yards
- Micah Blue Smaldone
- Michael Bravo, drummer, singer songwriter, composer (Ojai, CA)
- Michael Cameron, guitar/synth/vocals, Waterlaso (Los Angeles, CA)
- Michael Destouches, guitar and vocals, No Flag Project, King of Conspiracy (Paris, France)
- Michael Aguilar, Double-0, Kidz in The Hall, songwriter/producer/DJ
- Michael Hoffmann, drums, perc, electronics, live-sampling, sound-design (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
- Michael John, A Gap Between, and Masmöd, co-runs Nueva Forma (Portland, OR)
- Michael Kandel, Tranquility Bass, Exist Dance Records (Chicago)
- Michael P. Dawson, composer
- Michael Shay, cello, bass, guitar, voice, The Just Desserts (Ecuador)
- Michael Sheahan, Computer, Sampler (Madison, WI)
- Michael Simmons, vocals, guitar Michael Simmons & Slewfoot
- Michael Vincent, composer
- Michael Whyte, Singer/songwriter, guitarist with The Blind Robins / The Sunset Movies (Rockford/Chicago, IL)
- Michael Zbyszynski, Respectable Citizen
- Michele Smith, flute, Local 802, New York Flute Club
- Mick Greenwood, guitar, The Self-Proclaimed Rockstars (Boston)
- Mike Bee, Vocalist, Guitarist & Lodge Master, The Phoenix Experiment (Warrington, UK)
- Mike Felten, guitar/harmonica/vocals – self contained singer/songrioter (Chicago, IL)
- Mike Law, New Idea Society, Wild Arrows
- Mike Manewitz, Audio Engineer, Code Monkey
- Mike McClosky
- Mike Walls, guitar/vocals, CAESTLES, recording engineer at Audio Esoterica (Baltimore, MD)
- Millionyoung, aka Mike Diaz (Miami, FL)
- The Milkman’s Union: Henry Jamison – vocals, guitar, Jeff Beam – bass, Peter McLaughlin – drums (Portland, Maine)
- “Memphis” Mike Metzger, Memphis Mike & The Legendary Tremblers
- Mina Ohashi, The Present
- Mindee Jorgensen, drums, bass, guitar, saxophone, Azteca Frame, Dangerously Sleazy, FARM, Silent Time, Plague Winds.
- Mir, Miriams Well (Portland, OR)
- Mirah (Yom Tov Zeitlyn), K Records/Kill Rock Stars
- Missy Mazzoli, composer, Victoire
- Misty Dawn Briggs, keys and percussion Western Civ, founder, No More Fake Labels (Chapel Hill, NC)
- MK Ultra
- Moe Espinosa, aka Drumcell, electronic composer
- Molly Thompson, singer and composer (Los Angeles, CA)
- Moniker: Monica Metzler- multi-instrumentalist, loops, vocals, Andrew Harmon- drums, Tim Lower- bass, synth, beats(Portland, OR)
- Monique Buzzarte, trombonist and composer
- The Monte Vista (band)
- Morgan Ames, Inner Voices
- MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA (Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran)
- My Machine, aka Eli Ben-Yaacov
- Nancy Magarill, musician/composer/performer (NYC)
- Nancy Zeltsman, The Boston Conservatory/Berklee College of Music/Zeltsman Marimba Festival, Inc.
- Natalie Mackie, Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver, Canada)
- Nate Cozadd, guitarist/songwriter (Austin, TX)
- Nathalie Huber, pianist/composer
- Nathan Fustec, Producer, Sound Engineer, Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer and sound sculptor
- Nathan Michel, composer, Hospitality
- Navid Sam Nayebi, guitarist/noisemaker, Beastial Treaat (BK, NY)
- Nathan Singleton, guitar The Sideshow Tragedy (Austin, TX)
- Nathan Veshecco, songwriter/singer/guitarist, founder Occupy Song (Harrisburg, PA)
- Neil Ferguson, guitarist
- NES ONE, rapper/producer
- Nevian McPartland-Irvine, voice, drums, piano/organ, strings, Occupy Chicago (Chicago, IL)
- The New Enemy (Toronto, Canada)
- NGHTWLKRS
- Nick Morandi, composer and clarinetist
- Nick Nightingale, guitar, synth & vocals for Nick Nightingale, Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Nick Schutz, drummer, The Kris Special, North Hollywood, CA
- Nico Guerrero, VORTEX
- Nicole Rampersaud, Trumpet Player/ Composer/ Bandleader, Co-Curator of The Leftover Daylight Series
- Nigel Clark, Dodgy
- Nigel Parry, singer songwriter
- Noah Bernstein, Saxophone, tUnE-yArDs (Portland, OR)
- Noah Creshevsky, Composer
- Noel Benford, audio engineer
- Noe Ramirez, lyricist, P.O.E.M.
- Nonoko Yoshida
- Nora Balaban, timbila, mbira, singer, Timbila, NYC
- November Coming Fire: George(Guitar), Gareth(Vocals), Ruari(Bass), Bones(Drums), United Kingdom
- Nueva Forma, record label (Portland, OR)
- Object Collection (Travis Just and Kara Feely)
- Oliver Rivera-Drew, SUSU, Gestammelorchester, Paro
- Ophelia Clark, AntipopLTD
- OPOPO (Toronto, Ontario
- Oriol Roca
- Otep Shamaya (Los Angeles)
- Owen Weaver, percussionist, educator, Concert Black (NYC/Austin, TX)
- Oy Vey (New York City)
- Pablo Menéndez, guitarist, vocalist and leader, MEZCLA (Havana, Cuba)
- Pamela Jackson, Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC), Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT)
- Papa Mali, guitarist/singer/producer, 7 Walkers
- Paolo Forlì, Bungalow62
- The Parlor Mob
- Patti Noel Deuter, pianist
- Paul Barrett, Bassoon, Principal, (former) Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Lecturer in Bassoon, University of Hawaii (Kailua, Hawaii)
- Paul A. Epstein, composer
- Paula Maya, Yellow House Records
- Paul DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
- Paul Hawkins, lead singer, Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences (UK)
- Paul Lieberman, saxophones, flutes, and percussion, composer and arranger, SESAC (Wakefield, MASS)
- Paul Shapiro, musician/composer
- Paul Stein, accordionist, singer/songwriter, New York City
- Paul Zacharias, bass tuba, ecoli brocoli
- Paula Maya Burle Niemeyer
- Paulie Finch, Enter Medic, Edmonton Canada
- Pavel Kraus, bassist, Disquiet / Magpie
- Pauline Oliveros, The Horns of Hathor/Deep LIstening Band/Triple Point
- peaking lights (Aaron Coyes & Indra Dunis)
- Pepper Somerset, vocalist, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
- Peter Amsel (Ottawa, Ontario)
- Peter Nagle, composer & cellist
- Peter Holsapple, guitar and keys, The dB’s
- Pieter-Jan De Smet, aka BEUZAK, singer/songwriter (Belgium)
- Penny Thomas, elementary music teacher
- Penny Stone, radical Singer and community musician (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Pep Rius, guitarist, Raydibaum, Companyia Electrica Dharma, Lafrus, L’abdominable gallina nauseabunda
- Pepi Ginsberg, Companion
- Pete Pidgeon, Guitarist/Singer/Producer
- Petr Klouček, Plug and Play
- Phil Jones, Drummer and Percussionist, on tour with Pegi Young and The Survivors
- Phillip Greenlief
- Poingly
- Polly Moller
- Q-Burns Abstract Message, Eighth Dimension Records / Astralwerks
- Radio Partizan (UK)
- Raphael Mostel, composer & founder/director of Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble: New Music for Old Instruments
- Raul Aguilar /Guitar Player/ The Subnormal Way
- Ray Herron, drummer, The Black Tongued Bells (Los Angeles, CA)
- Ray Neal, Guitarist, solo and with Miracle Legion (New Haven, CT)
- Raymond Saada
- r.bins (L.U.N.A.R. Revolt / excelsior / mtn.high, NØ-Man Records / HotDogCity Records)
- Rebecca Penneys, Professor of Piano, Eastman School of Music, Chair Chautauqua Festival Piano Program, Artist-in-Residence, St Petersburg College, FL
- R. M. Isaiah, musician , San Francisco
- Red Tagz
- Reid Turner, composer, pianist, percussionist, Banshee and the Face (Vermillion, SD)
- Reilly Steel, DJ/Producer, (Top Billin, Rock It Science Labs)
- Rene Patrique, Producer, DJ, and Audio Engineer (Gladbeck, Germany)
- Rhys Chatham, composer/performer
- Ric Addy, Iggy Yoakam & His Famous Pogo Ponies
- Ric Gordon, Artist/Producer, Guitar, Synthesizer, Russian Winter Records
- Rick Arnoldi, guitar, vocals, production
- Rick Aydelotte, Guitar Tenor banjo fiddle and squeezebox, FIRE THE INSURANCEMAN, Ricks Music
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Richard Hell
- Richard J. Winn, bassist, singer, noise artist
- Risto Paalanen, Taphead
- Rob Bedford “DJ XSV” (Producer, DJ)
- Robbie Martin, producer/sound designer Fluorescent Grey, founder of RecordLabelRecords
- Rob Deemer, composer
- Rob Galloway, The Yalla Yallas
- Roberta Michel, flutist (New York City)
- Robert Honstein, Composer (Brooklyn, NY)
- Robert Keyes
- Robert Leng
- Robert Lord, guitarist/composer/singer-songwriter (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Robert Temple, singer songwriter 7 string acoustic guitar, broken pretzel music
- Roberto Juan Rodriguez, Drummer/Composer
- Robin Smith, The Trading Musician (Seattle, Washington)
- Rod MacDonald, singer, songwriter, guitarist Blue Flute Music
- Roger Evans, harpsichordist-organist
- Roger Morandi, Oboist, Singer
- Roger Smit
- Ron Anderson
- Ron McFarland Music Studio, Tiburon. CA
- Rory Gordziejko, trumpeteer (Stig Noise, Owter Zeds, Subsound Alliance), producer & DJ (Kwah)
- Rosemary Topar, violin teacher at NJ Workshop for the Arts (North Bergen, NJ)
- Rough Fields, Bomb Shop label (UK)
- Roy Harper
- Roy Nathanson, The Jazz Passengers/Sotto Voce
- Ruby Fulton, composer (Baltimore, MD)
- Ruby Sea
- Rudresh K. Mahanthappa
- Russ Flynn, composer, Russ Flynn Large Ensemble (RFLE) and HasHaveHad
- Ryan Aarset, so lame (Los Angeles, CA)
- Ryan Hand, Drums, Tropical Popsicle
- Ryan Harvey, of Riot-Folk Collective
- Ryan Ingebritsen, Composer, sound artist, sound engineer, International Contemporary Ensemble, eighth blackbird
- Ryan Miller aka Dj MēM, Electronic Music Producer & Multi-media artist
- Ryan Smithee, Guitars, Co Composer, Lyricist, Mirrorscape
- Ryan Walsh, Glenn Branca Ensemble, The Scene Is Now, Neg-Fi
- Ry N Stanley, guitarist, drummer, vocalist, composer, Cursed Arrows
- Sabira Woolley, steel drum, guitar, 5 string banjo, percussion (San Diego, CA)
- Sadsic (Maryland)
- Sam Richards, improvising musician, composer, pianist (SW England)
- Sam SaVaun, vocalist, The Stolen Mural
- Sareen, vocals (singing, rapping), guitar, keyboard, drums, programming, production, mixing, engineering, Sareen, Inky Owl (Brooklyn, NY)
- Sandra Koponen, musician/composer, ribaphone, alto sax, Kenny Wollesen’s Himalayas
- Sandy Pliskin, folk music, topical songs and children’s music, on fiddle, banjo and ukulele (Northeast Connecticut)
- Sara Haefeli Heimbecker, cellist and musicologist, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
- Sara Landeau, The Julie Ruin, Guitar teacher
- Sarah Bernstein, violinist, composer
- Sarah Baird Knight
- Sarah Bernstein
- Sarah Kirkland Snider
- Sasha Frere-Jones, Ui/Calvinist/Piñata
- Saul Williams
- Scott Amendola
- Scott Hedstrom, Sporeganic (Portland, OR)
- Scott Hollingsworth, Frisbie Music NYC
- Scott Sechman, singer songwriter
- Scott Unrein, composer
- Scott Valkwitch, Bare Flames
- Scott Weatherall, Composer, Instrumenralist (Santa Clara, CA)
- Scott Wollschleger, composer and artistic director of Red Light New Music
- Scotty Boe, Nam Shub, about blank, the Match Wave (Vancouver, Canada)
- Sean Holland, Producer , Coco Machete Records/Low Life Inc. (NYC)
- Sean Lewis, lead guitar, Exit 116 (El Paso, TX)
- Sean Rieger, FileTransferProtocol
- Sebby Frescoe, producer/DJ
- The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band
- Seth Austen, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, 5 string banjo, ukulele, fretted dulcimer, piano, harmonica, hand percussion (Wolfeboro, NH)
- Seth Cooke, Drums, vocals, electronics for bangthebore.org, Ganbatte, Defibrillators, The A Band, Hunting Lodge/Sweat Lodge, UltraHumanitarian
- Seth Horvitz
- Seth Tiven, Dumptruck
- Shahin Motia, Oneida
- Shahzad Ali Ismaily
- Shane Watt, Sound engineer/ Producer/Session Musicia
- Shanna Gutierrez, flute, Ensemble Dal Niente
- Shannon Hoon, SOUP
- Shara Worden, My Brightest Diamond
- Sharan Gale Leventhal, The Boston Conservatory
- Sharon Cheslow, Coterie Exchange, Electrolettes, Red Eye, Suture, BMO, Chalk Circle, Decomposition
- Sharon Abreu & Michael Hurwicz (“Irthlingz“), Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education, SingPeace!, Local 1000
- Sharon Dudgeon, General Manager, WAUS-FM
- Sharon Van Etten, Jagjaguar, Ba Da Bing Records
- Shawn Fogel, vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keys, ukulele, Golden Bloom, Neutral Uke Hotel, The LeeVees, The Zambonis, The Macaroons, The Philistines Jr. (Montclair, NJ)
- Sheikh Sam (AKA Sami Abu Shumays, Director of Zikrayat)
- Sheilah Glover, Nicholas, Glover and Wray, Is Ennybody Home?
- Sheldon Brown
- Shelley Burgon, harpist/electronic musician
- Shelley Champine, localmusicvibe.com
- Shelly Renee
- ShiSho (Vivian Ramone, Midge Ramone, vocals/guitar/accordion/sampler/kazoo)
- The Shondes
- Sid Gasner, guitarist for Us Band, Owatonna, MN and Open Bones, Minneapolis, MN
- Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
- SingPeace!
- Slim Moon, founder of Kill Rock Stars
- Soldiers of Fortune (Brad Truax, Mike Bones, Kid Millions, Matt Sweeney, Crazee, and Barry London)
- Spazzfrica Ehd, drummer, Za!, Tarantula (Barcelona, Spain)
- Spencer Thomas, Opir
- Spirit Family Reunion (Brooklyn, NY)
- Starbolt 9: Joe (vocals), Nick (bass), Mik (guitar), Jeff (keyboards) and Pat (drums)
- Star Witness (Portland, OR)
- The Statutes of Liberty
- Stephane Ginsburgh, musician, Brussels
- Stephan Jenkins, Third Eye Blind
- Stephan Said, musician, founder of difrent.org
- Stephanie (of Seattle, WA)
- Stephanie Stone, musician/singer
- Stephen Gorbos, composer
- Steve Chance, Maximillion
- Steve Deutsch, Producer / musician / engineer Spacebar Recordings, LA
- Steve Grimes, guitarist, composer, guitar manufacturer
- Steve Hicken, composer (Tallahassee, FL)
- Steve Janke, Doomedelic Records
- Steve Kirstein, engineer/producer, Local Pressure, aka LP Records
- Steve Marion
- Steven Laing, composer/lyricist, viola, keys and guitar Venus / What Model Citizens
- Steven O’Brien, composer
- Steve Shelley, musician, Sonic Youth/Disappears/Spectre Folk and founder of Vampire Blues record label/ founder of Smells Like Records
- Stewart Mostofsky, owner of Ehse Records
- Stew Pidittey, Euphonium, NYC
- Stuart Hurwood
- Stu Watson, Guitarist for No Sky God, Producer for the Shatter Your Leaves label (NYC)
- Susan Grisanti, guitarist, composer, filmographer
- Suspense Machine (Matt D’Alessio, Hwei Ling Ng)
- Suzanne Thorp, composer, performer, activist
- Svetlana Maras, composer and sound artist, Belgrade, Serbia
- Svetozar Ivanov, Professor of Piano, University of South Florida
- Sylvain Leroux, alto sax, guitar, leader of Source, Fula Flute, member of Mandingo Ambassadors, Kakande, Go:Organic Orchestra, Karl Berger’s Stone Workshop Orchestra (New York City)
- Talib Kweli
- Tam Tam The Sandwich Man & The Magical Sugar Cookies
- Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, singer and a songwriter, guitar, banjo, mandolin and harmonica for the Tao Seeger Band, The Mammals, RIG (Rodriguez, Irion, Guthrie), and Pete Seeger (accompanist and grandson for life) (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Tara Angell, singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer, White Cats (Brooklyn, NY and Liberty Square, NYC)
- Taylor Ho Bynum, composer/cornetist/bandleader and President, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation
- Tazewell Delaney, voice, minimal guitar, percussion
- Team Love Records
- Ted Hearne, composer
- Ted Orr, Guitar, Midi Guitar, Tablas 420 Funk Mob, BLOB, Blue Food, Dharma Bums (Woodstock, NY)
- Teri Greene, Guitarist, Eric Demmer & The Sax Dawgs and James Bolden (Houston, TX)
- Terry Walsh – guitar, harmonica, vocals with The Belfast Cowboys, St Dominic’s Trio, Terry Walsh and 2 A.M. (Minneapolis, MN)
- Thao with The Get Down Stay Down (whole band)
- The Thermals (Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster, Westin Glass)
- Thomas Dempster, composer (Columbia, SC)
- Tom Cartwright, label veteran (25 years at EMI) , executive producer
- Tom Frouge, Avokado Artists
- Tom Judge, POKE
- Tom Krell, How to Dress Well (Chicago, IL)
- Tommie Sunshine, DJ/Producer/Songwriter, Ultra, Brooklyn Fire (Brooklyn, NY)
- Tom Green, drummer/performer/writer
- Tom Nims, vocalist/lyricist,RESIST (Portland ,Oregon)
- Thurston Moore, guitar, Sonic Youth
- Tim Easton, songwriter, guitar, piano, mandolin (Joshua Tree, CA)
- Tim Abdellah Fuson, performer, songwriter, ethnomusicologist who plays bass, Gnawa guinbri, Moroccan percussion, oud, guitar, clarinet, and voice. Performs with the Dunes – North African Grooves (band), at University of California, Berkeley
- Tim Blake
- Tim Conley, guitarist, composer, producer (MAST)
- Timothy Adams, solo improv guitar, vocalist, lyricist
- Tim Koh, bass, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
- Tim Sparks
- Tina M. Pearson
- Tmm Mulligan / Rádio Ruído
- Tom Bickley, composer/performer/teacher
- Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman, Rage Against The Machine
- Tommy Santee Klaws
- Torquil Campbell, abdn stars
- Tracy Ruggles
- Travis D. Wiggins, guitar and voice, Coral Stabz
- Travis Morgan, noise artist / audio engineer for transcending stoic patterns / travis morgan / rec|use (Knoxville, TN)
- Travis Trevisan, Tape Deck Mountain (Austin, TX)
- Trevor Fedele, recording engineer and drummer (Purchase, NY)
- Tristen Bakker, musician/writer, Cousin Jane, PARO
- Tyler Greene, No Love
- Tyondai Braxton, composer / musician
- Uar Pölvästi, Percussion (NYC and Helsinki, Finland)
- The Ugly Club
- The U-Liners, Washington DC
- The Van Allen Belt (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Vapor Eyes, producer, mc, DJ, (Chicago, IL)
- Vicki Bennett, People Like Us
- Vicki Randle, Singer, Songwriter, Percussion, Guitar / Tonight Show Band with Jay Leno 1992-2010
- Victory and Associates (Oakland, CA)
- Vince Meghrouni, saxophones, flute, harmonica, drums, The Atomic Sherpas, The Charmkin Rebellion, The DownBeats, Fatso Jetson, and HellBat!
- Vin Novara, Alarms & Controls, Rockville, Maryland, USA
- Violet Angell, Percussionist, Extra Action Marching (Oakland, CA)
- The Very First Teenager
- W. Christopher Nelson, The Scene Is Now, Escape by Ostrich
- Wayne Hatchel, the Joe Ely Band
- Wayne Marshall, DJ / wayneandwax / Beat Research / Brandeis University
- Wayne VItale, performer (and past director) in Gamelan Sekar Jaya
- Will Croxton, Reel to Reel Records, The Habit, The Royal Wylds, Driver X, Idle, DT & the Shakes
- Willem Van Spronsen, the Super8
- William Torres, double bass player, Laura en Albanta (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
- William Satek, Mines
- Willard Morgan, Ideal Glass Atelier
- Win Wallace, bass player, composer, Gorch Fock (Austin, TX)
- Wind Aamot, Wind/Turbotsafari.com/JazzhÓl
- Winston Apple, singer/songwriter (Independence, Missouri)
- Wu Fei
- Xabier Iriondo, Afterhours/Noguru
- The Yehudim
- Yoshi Fruchter, guitar player, composer, PITOM
- Yuka Honda, co-founder of Cibo Matto, co-founder of Chimera Music
- Zack de la Rocha, songwriter vocalist , Rage Against the Machine, One Day As a Lion
- Zach Lewis, Disposable Thumbs
- Zachariah G. Boyd, Guitarist, liveLIVE! Productions, SUNY Oneonta
- Zachary Lehrhoff, Ex Models, Knyfe Hyts, the Seconds
- Zeke Virant, Middle Georgia Opera Company, Triangle Goons
- Zola Goodrich, Boyskout, MakeMe! and Bam!Bam!
- 1nvisibleman
- 2bers
- 5-track (Glass Goblins, Amanda Jo Williams, Cosmic Primitive Records)
References
- ↑ Occupy Musicians website (accessed on Dec. 9, 2011)