Sarah Bruno

Casey Rivers | by Sarah Bruno for Zany Waves At Levitate Festival, I had the pleasure of working with two artists who received The Levitate Foundation’s $5,000 grant and were spotlighted to the public on the Soul Stage. The grant was put in place for these emerging artists to use toward studio time, production, engineers, or whatever they see fit for their debut studio albums. Many of these artists have fewer than 1,000 streams on streaming services and less than 2,000 followers on social...

Levitate Festival | by Sarah Bruno for Zany Waves Earlier in the summer, Zany Waves was accepted to cover the Levitate Music and Art Festival in Marshfield, MA. The Levitate Foundation aims to keep music, art, and the outdoors accessible to people from all walks of life. Starting off as a surf shop in Marshfield, the shop owners, Ben and Jess Hassett, decided to launch the foundation in 2023 to encourage nature conservation and to host art shows, surfing competitions, and music events. They...

Photo by Shervin Lainez Buck Meek – the name may ring a bell as a founding member of the highly successful and Grammy-nominated indie folk band Big Thief. Meek has been Big Thief’s secret weapon, as he has been credited as a writer on each of their 6 studio albums, and his truly unique way of playing the guitar while morphing the sound into Americana folk and upbeat indie. Repetitively, the tracks the Meek works on become mesmerizing to the audience. However, Buck Meek, the multi-talented...