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"Songs In The Key Of Freedom" is the beginning of a new chapter for musician Brian Ernst.
This record, which is his eighth independent release, is the most personal and vulnerable record of his seventeen year career. It's an album written in response to spending years touring, living and volunteering in Eastern & Southern Africa. It's an album written about spending a months working at the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos, Greece and working with Syrian families fleeing war in Izmir, Türkiye. It's an album about holding the line at Standing Rock, becoming a father, touring around the world, and the peaks and valleys that came after. This record was produced in South Africa by Ben Badenhorst. It's a legacy album that highlights Ernst's unique style of soulful singing and songwriting while also bringing a refreshing new sound to help tell the story. Ernst filmed a music video for each one of the twelve songs on the album and then edited them together into one 57 minute visual album entitled, "A Film In The Key Of Freedom." It's a rockumentary written, filmed, edited, directed and performed entirely by him.
Ernst built his career as versatile live looping multi-instrumentalist with a memorable and thought provoking live performance. He live loops acoustic guitars, bass, beatbox, various percussion instruments (including a chain) combined with vocal harmonies, beatboxing, didgeridoo's and enough passion to help carry he and his family around the world for nearly two decades. He's toured across 50 states and 37 countries utilizing a grassroots approach that's helped him sell over 20,000 albums out of a guitar case and collect over 700,000 views on YouTube. He and his family spent a decade touring in full size busses that were fueled by waste veggie oil collected across America.
Ernst grew up in a small town in Ohio. He and his family are proud Citizens of The Lenape Nation, also known as the Delaware Tribe of Indians; which is a Sovereign Indigenous Nation that governs in what is commonly known as the United States. Ernst is a proud Lenape who is very passionate about educating and informing people about Native American studies.
Ernst and his wife Katie run an 501c3 non profit organization called Journey4YOUth. Since 2010, they have been ally's to the Luo Tribe of Rusinga Island, Kenya. Through local leadership and council, Journey4YOUth and it's supporters have raised over $200,000 for education scholarships and clean water initiatives.
Brian has shared stages with The Wailers, SOJA, Trevor Hall, MC YOGI, Shakey Graves and many others. He's performed at concerts and festivals in South Africa, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia and SE Asia and he continues to bring people together with passionate music and storytelling. Widening the circle one song at a time.
This record, which is his eighth independent release, is the most personal and vulnerable record of his seventeen year career. It's an album written in response to spending years touring, living and volunteering in Eastern & Southern Africa. It's an album written about spending a months working at the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos, Greece and working with Syrian families fleeing war in Izmir, Türkiye. It's an album about holding the line at Standing Rock, becoming a father, touring around the world, and the peaks and valleys that came after. This record was produced in South Africa by Ben Badenhorst. It's a legacy album that highlights Ernst's unique style of soulful singing and songwriting while also bringing a refreshing new sound to help tell the story. Ernst filmed a music video for each one of the twelve songs on the album and then edited them together into one 57 minute visual album entitled, "A Film In The Key Of Freedom." It's a rockumentary written, filmed, edited, directed and performed entirely by him.
Ernst built his career as versatile live looping multi-instrumentalist with a memorable and thought provoking live performance. He live loops acoustic guitars, bass, beatbox, various percussion instruments (including a chain) combined with vocal harmonies, beatboxing, didgeridoo's and enough passion to help carry he and his family around the world for nearly two decades. He's toured across 50 states and 37 countries utilizing a grassroots approach that's helped him sell over 20,000 albums out of a guitar case and collect over 700,000 views on YouTube. He and his family spent a decade touring in full size busses that were fueled by waste veggie oil collected across America.
Ernst grew up in a small town in Ohio. He and his family are proud Citizens of The Lenape Nation, also known as the Delaware Tribe of Indians; which is a Sovereign Indigenous Nation that governs in what is commonly known as the United States. Ernst is a proud Lenape who is very passionate about educating and informing people about Native American studies.
Ernst and his wife Katie run an 501c3 non profit organization called Journey4YOUth. Since 2010, they have been ally's to the Luo Tribe of Rusinga Island, Kenya. Through local leadership and council, Journey4YOUth and it's supporters have raised over $200,000 for education scholarships and clean water initiatives.
Brian has shared stages with The Wailers, SOJA, Trevor Hall, MC YOGI, Shakey Graves and many others. He's performed at concerts and festivals in South Africa, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia and SE Asia and he continues to bring people together with passionate music and storytelling. Widening the circle one song at a time.