Updates from Bring Forth

Illuminate the Night 2025: A Winter Solstice Celebration with Shine Song Collective and Friends

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:46:30 CDT

December 20, 2025 | Canyon Wren Recital Hall | Icicle Creek Center for the Arts

On the longest night of the year, the community is invited to gather for Illuminate the Night 2025: A Winter Solstice Celebration of song, movement, and connection featuring Shine Song Collective and friends.

Now in its fourth year, Illuminate the Night has become a cherished solstice tradition in the Leavenworth area. This year’s gathering expands into a full-evening experience that is part concert, part ceremony, part dance journey featuring Shine Song Collective, alongside performances by Benjamin Jay Thomas, Nora B. Heath, A Hundred Miles, Hernan Savastano, Targol, and others. The evening will also include ecstatic dance guided by DJ Klarity, leading participants into embodied celebration before closing in gentle song as the solstice night unfolds.

“Each year, this gathering takes on a new life of its own,” says Benjamin Jay Thomas, a member of Shine Song Collective and founder of Bring Forth. “It’s about honoring the darkness and the quiet, but also celebrating the spark of light that emerges from within and among us. Especially now, practices like song and dance are super vital… they connect us to one another, bring us back to our bodies, and help us remember who we truly are.”

Bring Forth is Hiring: Social Media Specialist

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:48:04 CDT

About the Position

We are looking for a creative and community minded Social Media Specialist to help share the heartbeat of Bring Forth with the world. This is a small stipend position requiring only a few hours per week, roughly eight to twelve hours per month. The focus is to expand our social presence in a steady, intentional way while supporting artist releases and mission aligned events. This person will carry our vision through the content they create and share, helping Bring Forth stay connected with the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow Bring Forth’s social media platforms by creating and scheduling a consistent flow of mission-aligned posts, reels, and stories each month
Support the promotion of artist releases, community events, and creative projects using social media
Track basic metrics and share simple monthly insights and recommendations
Help write and distribute press releases; conduct outreach to traditional and independent media outlets
Brainstorm and implement creative strategies to grow awareness of Bring Forth’s work
Engage our social following to engage with our offerings

Our First Year, and an Invitation Forward

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:49:15 CDT

Dear Friends,

As 2025 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to speak directly to you. If you have listened to the music, shared a song, attended a gathering, or followed this work from afar, you are already part of the story. Bring Forth exists because people like you believe that creativity is not a luxury. It is one of the ways human beings stay awake to their own souls.

When we launched this summer, we named our mission with clarity: Bring Forth cultivates and amplifies human-made, heart-centered creativity as a pathway to healing, emotional well-being, and cultural renewal.In a world marked by rapid technological change, rising disconnection, and a cultural hunger for meaning, heart-centered creativity is becoming more essential, not less. It is one of the practices that keeps us human.

Argentine-American Songwriter Hernán Savastano to Release Debut Album Mi Canción

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:45:03 CDT

Album Release Concert – November 7, 2025 at Snowgrass Lodge, Leavenworth, WA

LEAVENWORTH, WA – October 20, 2025 – Bring Forth announces the release of Mi Canción, the debut album from Leavenworth-based, Argentine-American singer-songwriter Hernán Savastano, available everywhere on November 7, 2025. That evening, Hernán will celebrate the release with a live concert at Snowgrass Lodge in Leavenworth, Washington. The event is open to the public, with limited seating.

Mi Canción (“My Song”) traces Hernán’s personal and spiritual journey through healing, loss, and rediscovery. Written in both English and Spanish, the album reflects his connection to nature, family, and his Argentine roots. The songs turn honest life experiences into art, offering a sense of belonging, reflection, and gratitude.

“Mi Canción is about remembering where we come from,” Hernán says. “It’s about reconnecting with Mother Earth, with our ancestors, and with the parts of ourselves that long to sing.”

"Flowers Will Grow" - The Debut Album by Nora B. Heath - Now Available

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:43:48 CDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 10, 2025

Nora B. Heath’s Debut Album Flowers Will Grow Now Available

LEAVENWORTH, WA—Nora B. Heath’s debut album, Flowers Will Grow, is now alive in the world—ready to be heard, held, and carried forward.

These melodies have lived in intimate gatherings and grown within community—shared in living rooms, around fires, and under open skies. They’ve been tended slowly and with care, rooted in devotion and truth. Now they bloom outward, ready to meet the wider world.

At once personal and universal,Flowers Will Grow traces a journey through loss, renewal, and belonging. The album blends folk sensibilities with a contemplative spirit, carried by Nora’s tender voice and luminous songwriting. Each song invites listeners into stillness and connection—reminding us of what can take root when we listen deeply.

Leavenworth-based nonprofit launches music studio and record label

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:30:34 CDT

Original article published by NCW News

By TAYLOR CALDWELL
Ward Media Staff Reporter

LEAVENWORTH — The community gathered inside the Plant Ally on Aug. 28 to celebrate the launch of a new local nonprofit songwriting studio and record label, Bring Forth. The evening featured Plant Ally elixirs and music by Bring Forth’s artists.

“Bring Forth is one half record label that is about amplification of these very songs, and the other half is a studio to invite you and others to learn, and to dive into the practice of creativity and of song,” said Bring Forth founder Benjamin Jay Thomas.

Bring Forth describes its mission as using heart-centered creativity – through music, coaching and community events – as a pathway to healing, well-being and cultural renewal. According to Thomas, by choosing the nonprofit route, the studio and record label is able to remain focused on its mission, rather than becoming profit-driven.