A regenerative electronic music festival celebrating and supporting the people and ecosystems of the Catskills and Hudson Valley, New York.
Two days and nights of dancing to local DJs, listening to local electronic artists, eating delicious local food, nurturing local connections and stewarding local habitats — leaving the community and land better than we found them.
FSON 2024
Photos by Chase Bauer
DJs On The Lawn & In The Club
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Alima Lee
Alima Lee is an anti-disciplinary artist from New York City and is currently based between LA & NYC. Their work is an ongoing experiment in producing physical evidence from the residue of existence. As a DJ, they have toured clubs, museum galas, and venues globally while hosting monthly NTS show Rave Reparations. Their video and installation work has been presented at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles, Tate Modern, MOCA, Smithsonian African American Museum, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and ICA Boston among other global entities.
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Brad D
1/4 of Community Rave Network. Dancer. DJ. Believer in the transformative power of music.
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DeeDee Dame
DeeDeeDame is a dynamic force in the house music scene. As the co-host of the legendary Wet Noise parties downtown, and with a background as a hypnotherapist, DeeDee guides her audience through a journey of self-discovery and liberation through collective euphoria. Her juicy blend of house, disco, funk and soul celebrates the golden era of dance music and makes it impossible to not surrender to the groove.
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DJ Guy
Raised in New Jersey, DJ Guy is a producer and DJ currently based in the Hudson Valley. He plays East Coast club music, has done shows around North America and hosted regular programs on radio stations such as WFMU, Wave Farm and Montez Press Radio. In addition to making music, Guy organizes programming and exhibitions in art spaces.
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DRËËËMY
DRĖĖĖMY is an Indigenous Egyptian DJ, music producer, vocalist, spoken word poet, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, arts & culture curator, movement and meditation guide, and conscious community activist pioneering a (r)evolution in "ElectronicDanceMedicine".
As a transnational artist, her sound is an organic electronica — an intentional communication of soulful vibration from across the African diaspora and beyond.
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Greem Jellyfish
Greem Jellyfish is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, composer, earthy scent enthusiast and web developer, rooted in Seoul and flourishing in New York. Renowned for exploring the boundaries between play, sensuality, paradox, pleasure and bubbles, she injects this ethos into her music. As a former member of the techno collective Dust of 2MR, Greem has recently released a remix album with K-Shack and collaborated on events with Community Rave Network, Kingston Techno, Bunker, PS1, and Whitney Museum. Her infectious energy and good vibes are sure to captivate any dance floor.
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Jams Bond
Born David Cruz, Jams Bond is a DJ whose effervescent performances and diverse musical palette captivate audiences from the Hudson Valley to NYC and beyond. With residencies at venues like Bembe and Nublu, and a knack for seamlessly blending genres from house and techno to hip hop to afro-latin rhythms, he ensures every party is an unforgettable experience.
From his roots in the Bronx to his role in shaping Kingston's emerging dance scene with his electronic music and art party "Kingston Techno," Jams Bond's passion for music cultivated since childhood shines through in every set, promising a journey through sound that's both exhilarating and eclectic.
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Laura Lynn
A longstay DJ based between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, Laura Lynn comes from a family of musicians where she cultivated a profound appreciation for diverse genres, shaping her distinctive sound. With a fervent devotion to house and disco infused with deep driving grooves her sets exude an energy that pulsates with the timeless essence of dance music. She seamlessly blends old-school charm of classic beats with the innovative sounds of the contemporary scene, creating a dynamic fusion that captivates both seasoned enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
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Matt FX
Matt FX is a NYC-based DJ and producer with a unique knack for riveting rhythms and magnetic melodies. Weaving together a tapestry of electronic sound influenced by everything from italo disco and classic soulful house to UKG and global club, Matt brings a signature flavor easily detectable in his sonic creations. His music has released on Wolf + Lamb, Kitsune Music, Toucan Sounds, and Sorry Records.
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RAGER
To embody the essence of RAGER is to channel collective rage into the communal processing that unfolds on the dance floor. An entity encompassing the roles of a multi instrumentalist, producer, DJ, and astrologer, RAGER stands as a pillar in the scene. One of the driving forces behind the DJ Collective Community Rave Network, formerly recognized as Mostly Girls since its inception in 2018, RAGER's fervor thrives in their vibrant high-energy pop remixes that intertwine effortlessly with spellbinding melodies, ensuring that the energy on the dance floor never wanes, keeping revelers moving to the beat till dawn breaks.
Photo credit: Tom Roeschlein
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Sasha Z
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Scotia
Scotia is a femme queen devotee to the blessed JACK. Her sets & production work blend the contemporary frontiers of Techno with the foundational sounds of Acid, House, and Club music she fell in love with in her youth. Giving both motherly mystic & firecracker trickster energies to her dancers, a decade of DJing across the Northeast has brought skill & wisdom to tell musical stories that speak of liberation and empowerment.
Scotia is a resident of the Hudson Valley’s Community Rave Network, where she has lovingly helped to nurture a thriving Queer-centered dance community.
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Sister Zo
Sister Zo is a New York-based producer and DJ. Born and raised in the Midwest, her sound has come to reflect a cross-section of influences from Chicago and Detroit to Bristol and beyond. Known for crafting sharp, eclectic and percussion-heavy grooves, Zo has established herself as a dynamic force in the North American underground.
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Soul Clap (Eli)
Eli Goldstein’s career spans 20+ years on the decks and beyond. Best known as half of EFUNK purveyors SOUL CLAP, Eli wears many hats in the music universe. He runs SOUL CLAP RECORDS, one of Mixmag’s 10 most influential disco labels of the last decade. He hosts a monthly radio show on New York City’s THE LOT RADIO. He’s one of the founders of BLACK FLAMINGO, a plant based taqueria and discotheque in Brooklyn. And he spins eclectic, vinyl oriented sets throughout New York and anywhere else he can get to by train or EV. Through it all, Eli’s mission has been to share music that feels like the past, but sounds like the future. Music that makes you move your body and feel something in your soul. But music is not always enough, and Eli strives to make a positive impact on the world around him by running DJS 4 CLIMATE ACTION to support the earth and getting an M.S. in CLIMATE SCIENCE & POLICY to develop an industry-wide climate pledge, while looking beyond climate to promote social justice and fight mass incarceration with GIVE A BEAT.
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SVB
Sarah Van Buren (SVB) is a raver, soundmaker, soothsayer and DJ living on Mohegan land. She investigates buried histories, facilitates communal rituals, and resonates well with others. She is a founding member of Community Rave Network, longtime co-curator of 24-HOUR DRONE, and is a certified Deep Listening® facilitator.
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Uncle Rudy
Rudy Mungaray established himself as a DJ with a residency at Happy Ending in the Lower East Side during the mid 00’s. A few years later, he was invited to the legendary party called The Loft. Created in 1970 NYC, it has influenced practically every DJ and party since. Rudy has collected records for the past 20 years and worked at the acclaimed Future Past Studios in Hudson, NY.
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Wolf + Lamb
From the heart of New York's early 2000s underground electronic music scene, Wolf + Lamb emerged as a soulful force that has carved out a distinctive niche with their captivating blend of late-night disco, classic NY house, soulful vocals, uplifting melodies, and soul-moving basslines. In 2005, they opened the legendary Brooklyn venue, The Marcy Hotel, which quickly became a cultural hotspot and a haven for up-and-coming DJs, artists, and musicians from around the globe.
Through their label, Wolf + Lamb Records and Double Standard founders Gadi "Baby Prince" Mizrahi, Zev "Wolf" Eisenberg, and the growing family of artists, invite listeners to join them on a musical journey that celebrates love, unity, and the transformative power of dance music. With new music being released and secret events happening each year, they continues to inspire and unite music lovers worldwide, one beat at a time.
Ambient w/ GOING IN By The Creek
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Abby Echiverri
Abby Echiverri is a young producer based in Brooklyn, NY, whose intense curiosity has led her to take on a variety of roles as a musician, sound engineer, DJ and VJ. As a live musician, Echiverri’s left-field musical influences, deft hardware manipulations, and experienced engineering meld into an inventive interpretation of techno.
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Ben Seretan
The music of Ben Seretan remains hard to pin down - there's the gentle piano clusters of 'Cicada Waves,' the towering drone of 'My Life's Work,' and the ferocious, spicy Italian guitar playing of his newest album 'Allora,' out this July on Tiny Engines, not to mention his weekly writing-and-music project My Big Break. Not just another indie rocker, not just another ambient softie, he rides an unpredictable wave with a tender warrior's heart.
"The guitarist and songwriter Ben Seretan has a catalog that encompasses songs and instrumentals, quiet ambient tracks and blaring rock." -New York Times
"Usually, it’s worth a listen regardless of the genre leanings." -Stereogum
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Blacklauren
Blacklauren derives his name from the first two things people typically notice about him. He’s Black, obviously, and has a strong affinity for Ralph Lauren, a holdover from the days of the Lo-Lives that were the background of his migration to New York from Port-au-Prince. Split between the bustling hip hop world of NYC during the 80s & 90’s and an early exposure to Haitian Vodou, his music style combines various sonic elements of the black diaspora while maintaining a signature style.
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Bryan Kasenic
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Friends Meeting
"We emerge from an amniotic sleep, gently woken by a lilting guitar riff that ripples into the ether. Daisychains of sunlit arpeggios sway beneath sprawling clouds. Light pours through the trees. Modular plucks echo like bird songs in the morning breeze. Slowly we open our eyes to the great big blue and find we’re not alone; the terror, a mere afterthought in the face of such love, such gratitude, and unending togetherness."
Friends Meeting is the ongoing harmonious handshake between synthesist and enthusiastic disc jockey M. Geddes Gengras and guitar player and gentle music enthusiast Ben Seretan. Sprawling, cosmic, and often pretty dang funky, their circle diagram overlap is a deep, refreshing well.
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Juan Maclean
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Maria Puente Flores
Maria Puente Flores is an experimental percussionist from Mexico-Tenochtitlan who is currently living in the Hudson Valley. Her work is grounded on a deep curiosity about sound and its nonlinear resonance in space. She composes graphic scores, focused improvisation exercises, and site specific sounding collaborations with the environment sometimes using field recordings.
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Nyhne
Nyhne ("9") explores the sonic architecture of emotion, hidden stories, and multigenerational pain. Using amplification of hand-crafted elements, voice, electronics, feedback, and synthesis, they create tense and textural environments for catharsis.
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OVNIS
Born of mutation and longing, OVNIS finds comfortability in conflictual relations. With field recordings, samples, loops, and synths, OVNIS provides experimental sounds for experimental body movement. Close your eyes, feel your body, and get free on the dance floor.
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Phil Yeah
Phil Yeah is a West Philadelphia-based musician and field recordist with an ongoing obsession with modular synthesis, dub mixing techniques, and process-based composition. He has released music on Going In and Full Spectrum Records, and since 2020 he has hosted Words to Remember, a monthly show presenting two hours of ambient/jazz/dub/free association and all-around “Good Music” on Great Circles Radio.
Practitioners
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Amelia Legare
Alongside The O Zone bulk refill marketplace, Amelia Legare recently opened Flower Power, a native plant nursery & garden center in Red Hook, NY. Using re-used plastic pots, bulk soils & bareroot plant stock, she has been working hard to reduce waste within the gardening industry. She hopes to instill gardening inspiration into her community by revealing the vast benefits of creating native plantings that will enhance biodiversity & create abundant habitat. Home gardens can serve not only as a beautiful sight to see, but can also serve as a means of food production, environmental enhancement, and promotion of physical and emotional well-being.
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Andrea Lubrano
Raised between Venezuela and New York, my life's journey is driven by a deep respect for various cultures, majorly expressed through food. My quest for unique global flavors and authentic culinary experiences has evolved into a love for healthy, culturally-sensitive eating. Currently, I channel my energy into Nutritional counseling through Gut Feeling Consulting, a one-on-one gut-health-centered practice that explores the root cause of all dysfunctions and traces them back to digestive function. This work allows me to blend my passion for cultural food traditions with promoting holistic health.
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Dina Falconi
Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at InTheWildKitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.
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James Walker
HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION
James Walker has been working in the Boston music community for over 10 years advocating for safer spaces in the club scene, especially for POC, LGBTQ+, and folks with disabilities. Over the years this has also come to include harm reduction planning for nightlife events. He has attended 10+ Narcan training sessions, and ran Harm Reduction educational booths at Boiler Room Events and Official Movement After Parties.
As someone who has been teaching in the public school system for 15 years, working with kids and adults with different disabilities, James believes it’s important for our community to create awareness and safe spaces where people with sensory complications can feel supported when they want to experience dance music and club culture. James will be working with Alexis Amulets on creating an art therapy approach to de escalation and harm reduction.
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Laura Chavez Silverman
Laura Chávez Silverman is a writer, creative director and the founding naturalist of The Outside Institute, which offers nature-based education and experiences in the Catskills, including guided walks, foraging, wildcrafting workshops and botanical mixology. The Outside Institute has published three seasonal volumes of its Field Guide to the Northeast and now has an outpost in Callicoon, New York.
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May Lin
May Lin Le Goff is a dedicated practitioner of Reiki and sound meditation. She aims to create safer spaces for self-discovery and balance through sound vibrations and Reiki's universal life force energy.
May is an Usui Reiki III & Earth Evolution Reiki Certified practitioner, attuned by "Reiki Godmothers" Aki Hirata-Baker and Manu Del Prete, founders of the MINKA Mystery School in New York. She trained in sound with David Shemesh, co-founder of the WOOM Center in New York.
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Sabrina Elmaliah
Sabrina Vedete Elmaliah is here to bridge the ancient worlds of Mysticism & Medicine to alchemize womb wounds so you can liberate your Shakti flow. Her commitment is to inspire you to embody your divine purpose path through ritual; plant medicines and pleasure arts. Holding sacred space as a Ceremonialist, Divine Mother, Temple Body Priestess, Taoist Sensual Arts Guide, V Steam Therapist & Womb Healer, Sabrina guides women and couples towards restoring balance through devotional embodiment.
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Scott Guzman
Scott is a natural builder, compost educator, inventor, and farmer with a degree in chemical engineering from W.P.I. and 10 years of experience in the world of cooperative business. He is the founder of Diggers Cooperative, a local Maine compost business. Scott and his team's project portfolio includes raised bed gardens, permaculture design, greenhouse installation, composting systems, habitat restoration projects, soil remediation, pond installation, and all types of stonework. Scott brings permaculture principles to the workplace while keeping the group organized and on task. In collaboration with the permaculture education group, Permatours, and several other highly skilled educators, Scott is building an online education platform to share educational content on various topics such as natural building and composting.
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Shri Alchemy
Shri has devoted the last 10 years to studying and offering eastern arts and medicine. She teaches hatha, yin, and meridian yoga, and holds teacher trainings and vipassana retreats. She was taught herbalism by her mother, and formulates seasonal medicine like tinctures and salves that are also inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda. She also works with cacao and kambo, and holds monthly ceremonies sharing medicines dear to her heart and path.
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Tasha Mae Medicine
Tasha Mae, a captivating force of healing and transformation. As an international yoga instructor, musician, educator, ceremonialist, integration coach, intuitive healer, and shamanic reiki practitioner, she weaves a tapestry of wisdom that will leave you yearning for more. Tasha's intuitive downloads pepper her teachings, revealing the profound inner work she has undertaken. Her commitment to self-discovery allows her to skillfully guide others on their paths, empowering them to step into their sacred medicine.
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Tree Is Alive
Trees academic journey began when he needed an excuse to pee outdoors. He now conducts this practice daily, often multiple times. He is held in high esteem by the plant & insect life in his local area. He was even featured on the Discovery Channel, trying to prove that we are all nothin but mammals. He believes that truly understanding this concept is the first step to healing the earth and ourselves. It has largely been forgotten that, like other animals, we are born fertilizers of the land.
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WildSong Gaian Sanctuary
Wildsong Gaian Sanctuary is a 150-acre nature-based retreat center and regenerative agroforestry farm in Bethel, NY. Our intention is to practice living in alignment and harmony with nature and all our non-human kins, and in doing so find both our own wholeness and our place within the Everything. The regenerative farm is one aspect of this practice, where we learn by doing what it takes to grow food in a way that enriches the ecosystem and creates more abundance for humans and non-human-beings alike. With our retreat center, we intend to support other humans on the journey of connecting more deeply with themselves, each other, and the natural world with a welcoming space that holds the frequency of nature's coherence, beauty, and inspiration.
