Ndidi Cascade
Ndidi Cascade is a Vancouver-born-and-based hip-hop artist who is of Nigerian/Italian/Irish heritage.
A songwriter, vocalist, educator, facilitator and curator, Ndidi has showcased her music, from classrooms to stadiums globally, opening for mega-talents such as Wu-Tang Clan & Femi Kuti.
Ndidi Cascade facilitates youth empowerment workshops and hip hop education school programs, using hip-hop as a medium for healthy self-expression. She is also a cultural curator and ambassador for the Ethós Lab youth empowerment organization.
Ndidi Cascade is the creator and producer of ORIGINZ, which is an interactive school show exploring roots of hip hop and Afro-centric music and how it connect to BIPOC struggle and joy.
She also tours the festival and school circuits both as a solo artist, and with her collaborative bands including Metaphor & Mad Riddim.
Ndidi Cascade is a curator for annual festivals such as Black Music Month Vancouver.
AHSIA
AHSIA is an accomplished artist who was born in Philadelphia and raised in Vancouver, Canada. From a young age, her passion for music has been evident, and she has since captivated audiences across British Columbia with her versatile blend of R&B, Soul, Jazz, Afrobeat, and Hip-Hop.
AHSIA is deeply committed to empowering young people to pursue their dreams and uses her platform to amplify the voices of marginalized communities, including the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, and to advocate for anti-oppression and black empowerment movements.
In addition to her music career, AHSIA has been an active participant in protests throughout the lower mainland, lending her voice to further amplify the voices of those who have been silenced. Through her art, AHSIA bravely shares her own struggles with mental health and identity as a queer woman of colour, highlighting the importance of self-love and acceptance, and confronting societal prejudices.
Xhalida September
Xhalida September is a talented entertainer and passionate artist emerging from the heart of the Unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Tseil-Waututh and Squamish (Vancouver, British Columbia).
Xhalida comes from Filipina and South African ancestry and her early foundation in music can be credited to her parents who were both musicians. She grew up around an abundance of world knowledge and musical diversity. Her fusion of music includes Soul, R&B & Funk.
Through her soulful voice, lyrics and music composition she wants to bring you on a journey, to a place of love, healing and self-affirmation.
Zabrina Hay
Enamoured by the link between nostalgia and music, Zabrina crafts soundscapes that are impressions of collective memories. Zabrina illuminates the universal qualities of music with a genre-bending style, melding the rich harmonies and textures from bossa nova, soul and jazz with the sampling traditions and rhythms of modern electronica and hip-hop. Music as a universal language has the unmatched ability to melt away invisible barriers, revealing the core human experiences that unite us all. From this place of shared understanding, Zabrina wishes to inspire radical love that radiates outwards, extending across our communities
