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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
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
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
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
A work in progress
February 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Perfect being the enemy of the good, and all that, I guess. But I’m trying to get over that. There is so much to process right now, and music has always been a place for me to do that. I cannot prevent myself from finding a way to heal just because it might not be a number one hit.

So, here’s this
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 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