The Lullaby Project
Harnessing music’s power to heal and transform, Noe Music launched the Lullaby Project in San Francisco during the heigh of COVID in January 2021 in partnership with Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP) in San Francisco. The project pairs pregnant women experiencing challenging life circumstances with professional artists to compose and record personal lullabies for their babies, supporting maternal health, aiding childhood development, and strengthening the bond between parent and child.
The project has since grown and are honored be partnered with the pioneering centering prenatal health program at Alameda Health System. This program is also in partnership with the Lullaby Project of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Read more about the studied impact of the Lullaby Project here.
This project is being funded by donations from supporters like you. We would be honored to count you as an ambassador of Noe Music’s Lullaby Project with a donation of any amount.
Learn more about the lullaby project with Alameda Health System
See what the Noe Music Lullaby Project is all about in this video of highlights from our January 2021 lullaby sessions.
Watch Lullabies
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Lullabies from the September 2021 Lullaby Project
Lullabies from the March 2021 Lullaby Project
Lullabies from the June 2021 Lullaby Project
Lullabies from the Jan/Feb 2021 Lullaby Project
Lullaby Project Artists
The Lullaby Project pairs new and expectant mothers with singer-songwriters and together they write deeply meaningful, personalized lullabies for each newborn. The artists and mothers bring their own experiences and their own talent to the project, with deeply moving results. Read more about the artists below.
Lalin St. Juste
Lalin St. Juste is known as “A sonic alchemist. A weaver of sound. An artist who uses her voice and entire being as a channel.” She has been tapping into her magic and sharing it with audiences for over a decade. Recognized for her work as lead singer for electronic live band The Seshen, Lalin St. Juste has also made a name for herself as a singer-songwriter, producer, and co-founder of the queer and black label arthouse 7000COILS. Lalin’s work has been supported by ZooLabs, YBGF Mini Grants, the Gerbode Foundation, and others. Her music is driven by sonic spell work and is inspired by everything from Haitian traditional folklore to Bjork.
Jackie Gage
Jackie Gage is a soft blend of jazz and folk music. She’s performed with jazz artists like Marc Cary, Theo Croker, Kim Nalley, Lyrics Born, Richie Goods, and Jerome Jennings; opened for artists including Tony, Toni, Toné; José James, Darlene Love & Digable Planets; held residencies at New York spaces like Minton's Harlem, Smoke Jazz Club and Kaufman Studios, and toured the world sharing her original music.
Jackie is currently recording an album with GRAMMY-winning songwriter and producer Jesse Harris (Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, Maya Hawke). She co-released the single "Green" with long-time collaborator Kevin Goldberg in October 2022, focused on climate justice and the devastating impact of corporate greed on our planet.
Her newest single “Brave”, is available now, featuring violist and pleasure activist Meena Bhasin. This is part of an upcoming EP of love songs created & live-streamed during the pandemic. As a Bay Area native, Jackie is proud to call San Francisco her home.
Diana Gameros
Among the Bay Area’s bustling music scene is singer-guitarist- social activist Diana Gameros, an artist who’s quickly caught the attention of national media as well as acclaimed musicians (i.e. La Santa Cecilia, Natalia Lafourcade, Bebel Gilberto, Taylor Mac, San Francisco Symphony) who’ve been drawn to her singular music and intrigued by her life story. From the age of 13, Gameros has resided in the United States, and for much of that time, she was an undocumented immigrant. Now with legal status, Gameros writes a love letter to her homeland with 13 standout renditions of classic Mexican songs on her latest album, Arrullo, in anticipation of soon returning to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
In 2013 Gameros released her first official album Eterno Retorno, a soulful retrospective of her journey as a musician and immigrant. The songs on Gameros' album include "SB1070," which she wrote in response to the anti-immigration Senate Bill passed in Arizona in April 2010, and "Libre Y Serena," the story of an immigrant woman who decides to return to her homeland. In October of 2014 she received the Emerging Leader Award from the Chicana/Latina Foundation for her work in music and her support to social justice movements.
Diana’s songs and story have been featured on Billboard, Mother Jones, NPR’s All Songs Considered, NPR’s Alt. Latino Podcast, Public Radio International – The World and PBS Newshour.
Sofia Magdalena
Sofia Magdalena is a Puerto Rican born, Dominican Republic raised upcoming artist who has been a part of the Mission District community for the past six years. With her Caribbean roots, love for jazz, roots and soul, Sofia Magdalena creates a musical fusion environment that invites you in. She is currently the lead singer for the Carribean Tropical SF based band Bululú and the Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba group Batey Tambo. She is also an educator who believes in the power of art and being bilingual to create a more inclusive community.
Cava Menzies
Cava Menzies is a multidisciplinary musician, visual artist, and educator who resides in Oakland, California. She is a Bay Area native and hails from a long line of creators; her grandmother a pioneer in the New York Jazz scene as a dancer at the Cotton Club, her father, Eddie Henderson, an accomplished jazz trumpeter and early member of the Herbie Hancock sextet, and her mother a classically trained flautist and music enthusiast. Cava holds a BA from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she studied jazz piano and music education. She received her MM from the University of Miami where she studied composition and music production and recording.
Cava is a founding music faculty member at the Oakland School for the Arts and served as the Artistic Director of the school from 2015 - 2018. Her musical directing and arranging work have been featured in performances with Chris Martin, Coldplay, Daveed Diggs, Rafa Casal, Dave Grohl, Kehlani, and Adrian Marcel. Through her cumulative work at OSA, Cava has led four concert tours to Italy, Puerto Rico, and New Orleans and has taught over 2000 young musicians from Oakland.
Cava is a 2014 National Artist Teaching Fellow. She has been a guest faculty member for Berklee College of Music’s weeklong music intensives in LA and Puerto Rico. She serves on the board of the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy and was a quarterfinalist for the 2018 Grammy Music Educator Awards.
Cava is the founder of the brand COLORQUEEN, a multidisciplinary platform that highlights her integrated visual art, music, and travel work.
Sonia De Los Santos
Sonia De Los Santos was born with a smile on her face (that's what her mom says) in Monterrey, Mexico, and in 2007 started touring the world, singing in English and Spanish, playing guitar and jarana and lighting up the stage with Grammy Award winning group Dan Zanes And Friends.
In 2015 she released her first solo family music album titled Mi Viaje: De Nuevo León to the New York Island (Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award Winner) a collection of songs that reflect her experiences growing up in Mexico, moving to another country, learning about other cultures, and in the process, feeling closer to her own heritage.
Sonia was nominated in 2019 for a Latin Grammy® with her second family music album titled ¡Alegría! and has been hailed by Billboard as “one of the Latin Children’s music artists you should know” and "Best Latin Children's Music".
She has been featured on NBC’s Visiones, Sirius XM’s Kids Place Live and WXPN’s Kids Corner among others. She has also made numerous appearances as a singer and guitarist on TV shows like ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’s The Early Show, and Sprout’s The Sunny Side up Show and has performed with her band in renowned venues and festivals such as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, The Getty Museum, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and many more.
Camila Meza
Equally prized as a vocalist, guitarist and composer, Camila Meza has uplifted audiences worldwide with her assured and beautiful singing, highly advanced guitar (both self- accompaniment and blistering solo work), and vivid, melodic songwriting that reveals complex layers with every listen. She’s been hailed by The New York Times as “a bright young singer and guitarist with an ear for music of both folkloric and pop intention.” In May 2019 she released her fifth album, Ámbar, (Sony Music Masterworks), producing it herself and proudly introducing The Nectar Orchestra, an ensemble combining rhythm section and string quartet. Steeped in metaphor, romance and complex emotion, Ámbar is a breakthrough, rooted in the incredible agility and interplay of Camila’s state-of-the-art jazz group, peppered with American pop and Latin American music across eras and genres. Camila moved from Chile to New York at 23, graduating in 2013 from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she studied with Peter Bernstein, Vic Juris, Sam Yahel, Steve Cardenas and Gil Goldstein. She has appeared at festivals worldwide as well as NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series and WBGO’s The Checkout, garnering praise from The Village Voice, The Wall St. Journal and many other outlets. Camila is a rising star in both the guitar and female vocal categories in the esteemed DownBeat Critics Poll. In 2018, Pat Metheny enlisted her to perform and act as musical director for his NEA JazzMasters induction ceremony at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Miranda Ferriss Jones
Vermont native Miranda Ferriss Jones is a composer, lyricist, teacher, and vocalist. She studied theatre at Yale University and is a thrilled participant in the esteemed BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Miranda has toured internationally as a singer and has been the recipient of multiple grants for her original musical works. Her show The Precipice is a five year musical collaboration with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and pianist Jeff Chimenti and was performed at San Francisco's Z Space theatre. Miranda is eagerly awaiting the premier of her two woman partially biographical musical, Showing Up, which had to be rescheduled when the pandemic hit. Miranda has spent the last three years working as a commissioned composer on a original new musical focused on sculpturessess Emma Stebbins and Edmonia Lewis. In addition to her work as a musical theatre writer, Miranda runs a busy private vocal studio in Montclair, NJ and spends time parenting her two beloved sons.
Emily Eagan
Emily Eagen is a versatile singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and teacher. She has lived in New York City since 2007, where she is a freelance performer and is completing a Doctorate in Voice at the CUNY Graduate Center. Emily sings with the M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, toured for several years with singer Moira Smiley and her vocal quartet, and toured with the Bang on a Can All-Stars for their performances of Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer. Emily is a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall's community engagement programs, including the Lullaby Project for expectant and new mothers. Lullabies that Emily co-wrote can be heard on the Lullaby Project’s Album Hopes and Dreams (2018), sung by Roseanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, and Angélique Kidjo. She is the host and co-creator of Sing with Carnegie Hall, a video series for families which will be released in February 2021. Emily is a co-founder of Moving Star, a collaborative vocal lab in residence at Carnegie Hall, and co-wrote and performed in Nooma (2019), an opera for babies ages 0-2. Emily is a regular faculty member and Assistant Festival Director at the Amherst Early Music Festival (CT), and teaches at the Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn. Emily studied voice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, for which she received a Fulbright Fellowship. She has a special interest in studying and performing American vernacular music styles, in which she combines singing and her skills as a two-time International Whistling champion.
Monica Fimbrez
Monica Fimbrez is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a bachelor’s in Vocal Jazz and World Music in 2006 and has been performing, writing, recording and teaching ever since. Over the last 14 years Monica has taught interactive music classes for children ages 0-5 through Music Together, in preschools, and at private gatherings. She writes songs for kids to sing in her classes, personalized songs for children, as well as original music and poetry that she performs under the name of Monica Maria. Monica recently released her first album in 2020 called “Nuevos Caminos.” It features original music and poetry and is a testament to her wide range of influences. She writes in both English and Spanish. English is her native tongue, but she has become fluent in Spanish over the years through her dedication to Latin music, cultures and communities.
Sarah Elizabeth Charles
Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist/composer based in New York City. She has released three critically acclaimed albums with her band, SCOPE since 2012 and her musical output has been described as a “genre of one” (DownBeat Magazine), “soulfully articulate” (The New York Times) and “an unmatched sound” (Jay Z’s Life+Times). As the vocalist in a number of bands, Charles has recorded numerous other albums and performed at many venues including The White House and Carnegie Hall. In addition to her performances and recordings, Charles is also an educator. She works as a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility and Future Music Project youth workshops, has a private lessons studio in New York City, is an adjunct professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music teaching a course she designed called "Jazz and Gender," and has developed an early childhood music education program with Rise2Shine, a non-profit organization based in Fond Parisien, Haiti. In 2019, she was one of five recipients of the Yale School of Music's Distinguished Teaching Artist Award. In 2020, she was selected to be one of five members of the Joe's Pub Working Group, was a recipient of the New York City Women's Fund grant in support of her band's fourth album to be released in 2021, and was a recipient of Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works grant.
Daniel Fabricant
Daniel Fabricant is one of the most versatile and in-demand bassists in San Francisco. Playing upright or electric, he can adapt to a wide range of musical settings, from intimate chamber groups to sprawling dance bands and Latin ensembles. Daniel has performed internationally with Piaf! The Show, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, Joan Rivers, Spencer Day, Ann Hampton Callaway, Petula Clark, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes, among others. In the Bay Area, he regularly performs with The Cosmo Alleycats, Rupa and the April Fishes, and Redwood Tango Ensemble. He has appeared at SFJAZZ, Monterey Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, Yoshi’s, The Freight and Salvage, and the Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko, and New York City venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Café Carlyle and The Algonquin. Daniel is also an accomplished music instructor, teaching guitar, bass and ukulele to students of all ages in private and group settings.