Calvin College
Festival of Faith & Music
Sarah Masen 
As a songwriter and a performer, Sarah Masen has won the enthusiasm of critics and a committed, eclectic fan base for over 10 years. Her songs have been featured on TV series of late-nineties yesteryear like Party of Five and Dawson's Creek, and her list of collaborators include Bela Fleck, Julie Lee, and Sam Ashworth. Whether immersed in electronica or as solo acoustic broadsides, her work speaks to all things awkward, political, dysfunctional, and seemingly mundane. While one generalizes too much by characterizing her sounds of lyrical protest as snake-handling music, intense attentiveness to her music has been known to lead listeners toward jumping, jiving, weeping, wailing, and laughing through gnashing of teeth.