Nahko “Bear” Parayno
On the tip, is Oregon native Nahkohe Parayno. A six… Read Full Bio ↴Nahko “Bear” Parayno
On the tip, is Oregon native Nahkohe Parayno. A sixth generation Apache/Mohawk this medicinal troubadour (his Cheyenne name given to him by his grandmother) didn’t grow up on his native land, with his Puerto Rican/Indian mother, or Filipino father.
Born, raised, and blessed in the suburbs by his adopted family, Nahko found roots in music and throughout his teens taught piano lessons and directed musical productions for local high schools. His talent on the keys eventually got him signed to a seasonal production in Denali, Alaska and there, he praises, in the grandeur and majesty of the wilderness is where he began to discover his truth.
Activating his audience with stories of a humbled walk upon this precious earth, Nahko’s ability to criss-cross generational wisdom and inspire in the struggle of classism, racism, Indigenous rights in Native America and abroad, environmental justice – sparking a fire of ambition to live the change and shift with the Aina for a more sacred walk with Spirit.
Currently on a medicine music tour (for the rest of his life), Nahko calls the Big Island of Hawaii home. There he works and lives on his brother’s off the grid farm up the Hamakua coast. Cleverly weaving old traditions with modern day paradigm conditions – Medicine for the People focuses on ‘real talk’ lyrically based music – dubbed as “spirited thump-hop storytelling” – promoting sustainability, green energy, and healthy living through music.
Bailey Scott
Bailey Scott brings high energy stage presence, and inspiring visual aids of dance. Story telling by interpretive dance with the music to offer a kinetic venue of lyrical understanding. A trained gymnast, acrobat and ariel dancer born and raised on the farm in Minnesota. A singer/songwriter herself, she adds vocals, hand percussion, and descriptive movements to the band.
Being raised in the heart of conventional agriculture she understands the destruction that the current methods of farming are doing to the land. One of her main focuses through Medicine for the People is bringing awareness to the environmental issues facing our Mother Earth, and the need to shift to a balanced respectful approach to the land and it’s species. Promoting simple sustainable living through her work she is determined to spread inspiration to all, to heal individually resulting in a collective movement for a hopeful future!
Max Ribner
The Jazz fusion and funk in MFTP is brought by Connecticut native and Berkley School of Music graduate Max Ribner. His ingenious, creative, and tasteful flugle horn lines draw listeners of all ages near and his sparkling eyes catch everyone’s attention. His raw food diet has become a traditional talking point at MFTP shows and his love for simplistic living continues to show even in his music. Max collaborates with many musicians in Portland and is making quite a name for himself in various communities in the NW.
Hope Medford
The tribal and traditional sound comes from percussionist, Kentucky raised, and Portland based, J.J. Hope Medford. You’ll never meet a woman who can play the bass cajon or djembe like Ms. Medford. She has studied internationally- in West Africa, Peru (the home of the cajon drum), and Brazil and continues to be inspired by multicultural rhythms. J.J. has been hand drumming for over a decade and has been blessed with taking workshops from such masters as Babatunde Olatunje, Thione Diop, Carolyn Brandy, Antonino Balaskas, Fomodou Konote, and Mamady Keita.
Drumming is a spiritual path and the rhythm unites us all through the heartbeat. Hope brings high energy and driving beats through the bass cajon box drum and her off-stage vibrations. Hope has created environments for others to experience the power of hearing their own voice on the drum; she has co-facilitated drum circles in schools, libraries, and community centers for over 2,500 participants and youth in the Portland area. She is also an artist, a painter, community activist, certified in permaculture design, co-founder of Tryon Life Community Farm sustainability education center, a drum instructor, birth assistant, and midwife. She has been playing with Medicine for the People for almost a year, and has enjoyed all of it!
Don Corey
Don Corey Berkley school of Music grad lays down the bass line with stand up bass and electric bass. Based in Portland with his family Dunnell and new daughter Grace Moon, he stays busy with teaching music lessons and collaborating with other bands. Don brings a great presence on and off the stage with his love for music and unique sense of style.
On the tip, is Oregon native Nahkohe Parayno. A six… Read Full Bio ↴Nahko “Bear” Parayno
On the tip, is Oregon native Nahkohe Parayno. A sixth generation Apache/Mohawk this medicinal troubadour (his Cheyenne name given to him by his grandmother) didn’t grow up on his native land, with his Puerto Rican/Indian mother, or Filipino father.
Born, raised, and blessed in the suburbs by his adopted family, Nahko found roots in music and throughout his teens taught piano lessons and directed musical productions for local high schools. His talent on the keys eventually got him signed to a seasonal production in Denali, Alaska and there, he praises, in the grandeur and majesty of the wilderness is where he began to discover his truth.
Activating his audience with stories of a humbled walk upon this precious earth, Nahko’s ability to criss-cross generational wisdom and inspire in the struggle of classism, racism, Indigenous rights in Native America and abroad, environmental justice – sparking a fire of ambition to live the change and shift with the Aina for a more sacred walk with Spirit.
Currently on a medicine music tour (for the rest of his life), Nahko calls the Big Island of Hawaii home. There he works and lives on his brother’s off the grid farm up the Hamakua coast. Cleverly weaving old traditions with modern day paradigm conditions – Medicine for the People focuses on ‘real talk’ lyrically based music – dubbed as “spirited thump-hop storytelling” – promoting sustainability, green energy, and healthy living through music.
Bailey Scott
Bailey Scott brings high energy stage presence, and inspiring visual aids of dance. Story telling by interpretive dance with the music to offer a kinetic venue of lyrical understanding. A trained gymnast, acrobat and ariel dancer born and raised on the farm in Minnesota. A singer/songwriter herself, she adds vocals, hand percussion, and descriptive movements to the band.
Being raised in the heart of conventional agriculture she understands the destruction that the current methods of farming are doing to the land. One of her main focuses through Medicine for the People is bringing awareness to the environmental issues facing our Mother Earth, and the need to shift to a balanced respectful approach to the land and it’s species. Promoting simple sustainable living through her work she is determined to spread inspiration to all, to heal individually resulting in a collective movement for a hopeful future!
Max Ribner
The Jazz fusion and funk in MFTP is brought by Connecticut native and Berkley School of Music graduate Max Ribner. His ingenious, creative, and tasteful flugle horn lines draw listeners of all ages near and his sparkling eyes catch everyone’s attention. His raw food diet has become a traditional talking point at MFTP shows and his love for simplistic living continues to show even in his music. Max collaborates with many musicians in Portland and is making quite a name for himself in various communities in the NW.
Hope Medford
The tribal and traditional sound comes from percussionist, Kentucky raised, and Portland based, J.J. Hope Medford. You’ll never meet a woman who can play the bass cajon or djembe like Ms. Medford. She has studied internationally- in West Africa, Peru (the home of the cajon drum), and Brazil and continues to be inspired by multicultural rhythms. J.J. has been hand drumming for over a decade and has been blessed with taking workshops from such masters as Babatunde Olatunje, Thione Diop, Carolyn Brandy, Antonino Balaskas, Fomodou Konote, and Mamady Keita.
Drumming is a spiritual path and the rhythm unites us all through the heartbeat. Hope brings high energy and driving beats through the bass cajon box drum and her off-stage vibrations. Hope has created environments for others to experience the power of hearing their own voice on the drum; she has co-facilitated drum circles in schools, libraries, and community centers for over 2,500 participants and youth in the Portland area. She is also an artist, a painter, community activist, certified in permaculture design, co-founder of Tryon Life Community Farm sustainability education center, a drum instructor, birth assistant, and midwife. She has been playing with Medicine for the People for almost a year, and has enjoyed all of it!
Don Corey
Don Corey Berkley school of Music grad lays down the bass line with stand up bass and electric bass. Based in Portland with his family Dunnell and new daughter Grace Moon, he stays busy with teaching music lessons and collaborating with other bands. Don brings a great presence on and off the stage with his love for music and unique sense of style.
7 Feathers
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@sierrarichardson6198
I know a carpenter
I know a laborer
He is my teacher
He is my brother
I have a neighbor
He is my savior
He doesn't waver
He's a strong believer
I know a business man
He scrapped his business plan
While screaming, "Fuck the man!"
He gave into the land
You're all archetypes
People that I might like to be just like
In a completely different way
And we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
Yes we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
I know a farmer
I know his vision
I know his struggle
I know his hope
I know a futurist
He is an optimist
And he knows a young waitress
And he's trying to coax her
Out of her cave
By smiling, by winking
By saying you know it's good
For us to talk
Ya know, it's good to talk!
I know a father
I loved his daughter
I told him never would
I forsake her
But, I got home too late
From one of my escapades
No woman to face, just a note
That said, "Baby, I've sailed away."
Right out of my cave
Caught a swell
Caught a wave
To another inspiring place
And we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
Yes we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
My friend the bureaucrat
He just accepts all that
Which I cannot accept
Such frustration that I wept
For my friend the taxman
He is my father and
He tallies numbers all day
Yes, he knows his numbers you could say
He taxes income, I asked him
How come?
You know I work hard for every penny...
Don't you think I deserve it all?
Oh the law, the law, the law son...
There are flaws in the law
But, in the end I just answer to God
Boy, I'm just doing my job!
My friend the astronomer
She is a stargazer
I swear they talk to her
Boy, I wish I knew
What they were saying
While I was layin' in her bed
With her chest to my head...
Were our intentions misread?
So I just said it
I said, Baby, I'm a nobody
I ain't got no money!
Just this ambition to tell the people
We are equal, so c'mon, baby
Come out of your cave!
Catch a swell
Catch a wave
To another inspiring place
And we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
Yes we all
We're coming out of our caves
Coming out of our caves
@draketharp1143
One of my good friends showed me this. He passed a few years ago and this is a pleasant reminder of his constant joy and ambition. The only person I’ve known to truly care about EVERYONE. I wish he could’ve changed the world the way he changed me. Love you Brother, rest easy<3
@maloneyjmatthew
keep their legacy alive! sending love
@gamerzzelite-kyle
A second for those good people who try to help others no matter what
❤🎉
@PedanticAntics
He did change the world. Your whole world is changed for him having been in your life.
You are the world he changed.
Never forget that.
@meesrobert
@@PedanticAntics ❤ Well said my friend!
@tmsturgeon88
2 minutes into this song at 2 am and I saw my 7th shooting star of the night. I had only seen one in my life before this night. I believe in the good things coming. Thank you brother bear. ♥️
@ticket2space621
They're actually fairly common. You can see them every night if there's not much light pollution and you just watch
@torijanehilton472
Nahko is a Beautiful gift to the world. His music really is medicine. 🙏🙏
@davediamond555
I just discovered Nahko recently and I can't get enough. I've always loved all kinds of music, but none has ever grabbed my soul by the ear and dragged me to the mirror and made me feel real and alive again . Thank You Nahko for sharing your gift .
@tonitranscendencetemperton5301
I second that,,closly followed by wookifoot ,,yr it 😍😍😍