Raye Zaragoza

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Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza is a powerful storyteller who has found multiple avenues of expression. She writes the music for the Netflix show Spirit Rangers, which features an all-Native American cast and writers’ room. She played Tiger Lily in the hit 2024 Broadway tour of Peter Pan as part of a cast full of Native actors. And her latest album Hold That Spirit features a stylistically broad array of songs deeply informed by her identity as a woman of mixed Indigenous, Asian and Latina heritage. A luminous presence on stage, she first gained national recognition in 2016 with her song “In The River,” which was written to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. A captivating Tiny Desk performance followed. Zaragoza continues to evolve, a journey she evokes in the feminism-powered folk and pop tunes on Hold That Spirit, like the soaring opening track “Joy Revolution,” a collaboration with fellow LA-based activist-artist MILCK. Inspired by the creative riches of LA’s Indigenous music scene, she brings emotional truths from a community that largely flies under the pop cultural radar.

This program is part of YBG Festival’s 2025 Indigenous Performance Series, with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Part of Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's Thursday Lunchtime series. For the full program schedule, visit www.ybgfestival.org

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