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Gwynie
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Hi, I’m Gwynie (aka Sage Zahnd). I’m a musician, writer, and digital artist from Alaska.

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Colored one of the Rémys from my previous Bird + Hand sketches

#parakeet #digitalart #myart
April 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Final song from my AFF set, “The Starter”

This is one of the more comedy forward songs from my upcoming album. It’s about sabotaging a good relationship because you’re afraid of being hurt first.

#AlaskaFolkFestival #Singersongwriter
April 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My second song from AFF set! “You”

This one is about friendships with people who are very far away.

#AlaskaFolkFestival #singersongwriter
April 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Forgot to actually share these!

(Most of) First song from my AFF set, “Little Blue”

This song is my favorite I’ve ever written, and the titular song off my upcoming album. It’s about loss, and so much love. For my sweet parakeet Gwydion.

#AlaskaFolkFestival #singersongwriter
April 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Caught the folk fest bug so I’ve been in bed with an audiobook for most of the week, but I did some sketches!!
April 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I think 10% of Juneau is crowded into this hall to hear Rhiannon Giddens and another 10% are listening on the radio. #alaskasky
April 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
A little self portrait
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
AFF board member snapped this pic while I was performing. Which is great because 100% of the photos and videos my brother got of my set had 1,000 small children photobombing
April 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Today is the day! The very first day of the 50th Anniversary Alaska Folk Festival.

Catch me on the main stage at Centennial Hall, or on the live stream at the link below, at 7pm Alaska Time!

www.ktoo.org/folkfest/
Folk Festival live stream
The 49th Annual Alaska Folk Festival returns to in-person this spring in Juneau, Alaska! Catch the radio broadcast on KRNN 102.7 & 103.1 FM.
www.ktoo.org
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Oh no I’m writing more songs

P.S. Folk Fest in 4 days! Watch me perform on April 7th at 7pm!
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I bought my first microphone today. I’m a beginner, so it’s nothing crazy. But I’m really happy to be taking more steps towards sharing music. I’ve been recording everything on my phone for so long!
March 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Really excited to share that I’ll be performing at Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau on April 7, at 7pm.

This is the AFF’s 50th anniversary, and I’ve grown up attending, so getting to participate is so special. This will also be the first time I get to share some of these songs, and I’m thrilled!
March 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Two years ago today I did the solo winter hike that inspired the 11th song on my album, Winter's Hymn.

I hiked several miles on the groomed ski trail on Mendenhall Lake, in the middle of the night. It was freezing, and beautiful, and if I believed in any greater power it would just be this.
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
An update! I’ve finally gotten all of my lyrics and chords for my album written down in one place (rather than being scattered through Notes, Google Docs, notebooks, napkins, etc) and I’m doing final edits.
February 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
A work in progress
February 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
After suffering two of the biggest losses of my life in the last five years, the fear that every single person I love is the next to go has been following me around. I’ve want to process that in music, or try to.

I’ve been writing a lot about loss and grief itself. But this fear has been nagging,
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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A song I wrote is on this ep by young Justin Orok and the whole little album is 🤩🤩🤩 Listen to it! It will make you feel happy/sad, and a little better about things for a while.
Debt, by Justin Orok
4 track album
justinorok.bandcamp.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I’ve been working on this album for 2 years and I think I finally have all the songs finished!

That’s if I don’t write any new songs and add them before I release the album in September, which I probably will, someone stop me.
January 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hi everyone!

I’ve been making music my whole life, but I’ll be sharing an album September 2025. I’m really excited about that!

I will use this account for posting updates, sharing snippets of songs + writings, and posting my digital art

#musician #singersongwriter #artist
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM