SARA TONE
`Trifecta of Sonic Balm' - New Music on Bandcamp 2/6/26
Streaming on all platforms March 2026!!
Portland based musician, educator, and ecologic advocate, Sara Tone has shared her love songs for the Earth as a multi-instrumentalist for nearly 2 decades. Expressing herself through powerful lyrics, a commanding and well tuned voice, a dynamic pushy guitar style, a unique approach on baritone uke, resounding kalimba, gratitude filled ocarina, and an assortment of percussion instruments. Her style ranges from a deep soul, rooted in a world-folk vibe, with an undeniable hip-hop influence. (Read: dorky choir kid with a strong ear taught herself lots of instruments to try to express and share the nature inspired symphony she hears and feels intensely).
You’ll often find her building musical expression into sonic reality through live looping, blending harmonies, beat box, and a quiver full of instruments. More than songs, there's an intention and vibe created and held, a collective power of presence and gratitude that the this music emanates and amplifies, a prayer, a spell, a sonic stream to soak your soul…
Sara has been blessed by incredible musical collaborators! Most recently with the incredibly gifted singers Ayla Réalta & Tonya Abernathy who shared their gifts for the newest recording . For years she has found musical support with the talents of Max Ribner, Amy Ringle, Samara Jade & Micaela Kingslight of Three Wheels Turning, Sean Frenette, Krivo Flores, Al Torre, and so many more.
For Sara Tone, musical inspiration comes deeply and directly from nature. She has utilized her voice and lent her musical offerings as a strong advocate to many awareness and fundraising events including actions for intact forests, clean water and flowing watersheds, clean seeds, carbon sequestering and soil building, salmon restoration, free-roaming buffalo, and for We Are Mauna Kea, on Hawai’i Island.
As an educator, Sara has facilitated hundreds (thousands) of kids and adults in percussion classes, voice classes, songwriting, song circles, and more. She enjoys being a resident staff member teaching percussion, musical ecology, and songwriting at the bi-annual NW Singer Songwriter Soirée Retreat 2019-2025!!! She directed and arranged original music for the one powerful season of the Portland based MUSE Choir. And starting n 2024 she launched a new round of community percussion classes in inner Portland under the name PDX COME DRUM-Weaving Roots Drum!!
Highlights:
2022 Sara’s spring kick off show was the fundraiser for ‘Keep the Columbia Cold’, a very successful benefit for Columbia Riverkeeper and their crucial work to keep the waters cold enough for the Salmon to return upstream.
2023 brought incredible opportunities including sharing the night with renowned author, activist, and keynote speaker Starhawk at the NW Permaculture Convergence. Followed by a strong song presence for the Tall Tall Tree's at the first ever TEDx-Lacamas Lake (Vancouver, WA.)
2024 included a potent return to the land that hosted Beloved from 2008-2019 for the 4th annual Medicina Campout where the brand new song ‘Pining for Terpenes’ was first shared. Ending the summer festival season with a Main Stage musical extravaganza at the first ever Conscious Growth Convergence at Lost Valley Education Center in Cottage Grove, OR.
2025 we saw the release of the ‘Honey Bee (sonic balm)’ music video. Spring started strong with the first visit back to Hawai'i in April for a ohana reunion show with old musical friends Max Ribner & Hope Medford, followed by the most successful and first ever Revival Gathering in the Pt. Townsend area. regional touring was a hit with the incredible musicians Murray Kyle from NSW, Australia, and with Chances R Good and fam from Crestone, CO. support with booking and promotion came from Ashley Bonn at Cascadia Culture Events. Summer highlights included Oregon Country Fair Alcove and Community Village Stages, leading songs and meeting incredible humans at Cascadia SongRise, going even deeper with the community at the 2nd annual Conscious Growth Convergence, where the workshop Eco-Rhythms of Watershed was first offered, and I was able to support my girl Alixa Garcia on Main Stage for a powerfully transformative set. it was special being invited to play Imagine Arts Fest on Orcas Island for the first time ever, and then in the Fall being invited to join Max Ribner and Revival Gathering for ‘the Circle’ at St. Marks Cathedral in Seattle for a 1000 person choir event.
2026 is already off to an incredible start with a potent tour on Hawai'i Island for ManaFest in Puna and a local music tour around the island. We were there for the 41st eruption of Kīlauea and new earth creating ways. That tour came to an end with a most potent show featuring Sisters of the One drum coming from So Cal, and the incomparable Maka Gallinger from Big Island and her incredible family band- the 808 Ohana. Late Spring into Summer kicks off with with Sara Tone offering her newly developed interactive workshop, ‘Eco-Rhythms of Watershed’ (more info in tab) at Spirit Weaver in Cave Junciton, OR on the banks of the Illinois River for the Sun-Session as a Full-Time teacher, and again at Oregon Country Fair on he banks of teh Lng TOm River of Time, at Spoken Word & The Front Porch. In late June ara will be her playing her powerful set and teaching at Peace Village Festival at Jackson Wellsprings in Ashland, OR. Then in July bringing the BIGnLOVE to the 2nd annual Revival Gathering in Quilcene, WA, followed by a south bound tour on a special invitation to connect the webs sharing the music at the Unison Festival in Aztec, NM, south of Durango, CO on the banks of the Animas River. And to end the summer with the local loves Big Heart Cascadia crew at the 3rd annual Conscious Growth Convergence just outside of Eugene at Lost Valley Education Center. Scope ‘Shows’ tab for more info!
Please listen, sing out, and share! Tour dates are lining up now, so stay tuned!
More to come, miles to go...
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