Songwriters in the Round with RAD, Maya McNeil & Brightdarkdawn

RAD is a queer, trans, brown, farmer and folk musician bringing original, ukealicious, multilingual love to the community.

Maya McNeil’s music echo locates story and melody from the ethers round the heart. “Their vocals are deep, mysterious, raw, angelic, and poignant, and leave me wanting more.” –JV

McNeil performs original and traditional songs from a well of times past and writes songs for the shape of the future. They are a recording artist and healing arts practitioner currently orbiting through life, work, and curious mischief around the San Francisco Bay Area.

With intricate guitar and nature-based lyrics, the music enfolds the listener in stories of the Earth’s deep time. The music illuminates the storied existence of the natural world in all its beauty, vulnerability, strength, and ferocity. The guitar work is reminiscent of folk traditions using sounds and stylings in the vein of Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. Brightdarkdawn is a project of songwriter/composer Anne Carol Mitchell, a queer woman living in Sebastopol, California, cultivating food and community with her partner and ornery orange tuxedo tabby. https://www.instagram.com/brightdarkdawn/