NAOMI WESTWATER is the creator most recently of the concept record “Cycle & Change.” They hold a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music and are a member of the Club Passim Folk Collective, where they produce Reimagining Lilith Fair, a tribute to the feminist music scene of the 1990s. Naomi has been nominated for several Boston Music Awards and produces the series Reclaiming Folk: A Celebration of People of Color in Folk Music.

DAVE HERLIHY, a longtime entertainment lawyer and professor at Northeastern University, began writing and performing music again during the pandemic after a long break. In the 1980s and early ‘90s he was the lead singer for O Positive, one of the most acclaimed Boston bands of the era. Inspired by the late civil rights activist and US Rep. John Lewis, Dave recently released his latest single, “Good Trouble.”  

JUDGE MILTON WRIGHT served on the Boston Municipal Court bench for 16 years, until his retirement. He grew up in a highly musical family in Miami – his sister Betty Wright (“Cleanup Woman”) was a soul star, and his sister Jeannette was an original member of KC and the Sunshine Band. In 1975 Milton released his own debut album, “Friends and Buddies,” following that up two years later with “Spaced.” Milton’s son, Kavayah, has toured with Ky-Mani Marley and Arrested Development.   

DAVID SANTOS is the frontman for Eddie Japan, the band that won the Rock & Roll Rumble in 2013. In 2023, he was nominated in the Vocalist of the Year category for the Boston Music Awards. Recently, Eddie Japan has been playing with Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes, recreating that band’s classic hits. 

KEMP HARRIS released his latest album, “The America Chronicles,” on the Fourth of July. It was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals and produced by the bassist Freebo, best known for his long collaboration with Bonnie Raitt. Kemp’s previous album, “Edenton,” revisited his childhood growing up in the segregated South. In the 1990s he led the eccentric Boston band Neon Grandma. Kemp has composed music for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, currently serves as a board member for Club Passim, and is an award-winning educator who has taught young children for over 40 years.      

LAURIE SARGENT formed the Boston group Twinemen in the early 2000s with her partner, the drummer Billy Conway, and saxophonist DANA COLLEY following the death of their Morphine band mate Mark Sandman. Laurie was previously the lead singer of the Boston-based New Wave band Face to Face, which scored a Top 40 hit in 1984 with the song “10-9-8.” That band’s guitarist Stu Kimball, went on to tour for more than a decade with Bob Dylan. Currently Laurie administers the Billy Conway Artist Fund, created to honor its namesake after his death in 2021.

REV. LAURA WRIGHT is Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches and pastor in the United Church of Christ. Podcast co-host of “Can These Bones.”