Welcome.
S O U L F O L K Sounds is a community music and wellness practice that serves LGBTQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual Two-Spirit) and Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Check out the 2018 Pre-Launch Video from our founder, kei, to learn more about what inspired this work. (captions coming soon)
About
S O U L F O L K Sounds is a radical community music therapy, sound healing, and wellness practice, centering LGBTQIA2S+ and QTBIPOC.
Mission
Our mission is to co-create braver spaces alongside Queer and Trans* (Non-Binary, Gender Non Conforming) BlPOC by providing culturally resonant, resource-oriented, and client-centered services. We seek to use the transformative power of music to conjure radical healing, collective freedom, and sustainable joy.
Offerings
Our current offerings include: Music Therapy (Individual or Group), Vocal Psychotherapy, Sound (resonance) Healing, and Wellness Coaching.
Now ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS! Sliding scale rates available.
Who We Are
S O U L F O L K are you and me-- the ones who don't quite fit one "genre." We are the ones who bang out beats on our chests, click-clack pencils on desks, grew up singin' Backatown gospel, shout spirituals on the front lines, attune to ancestral bass in bounce and hip hop hymnals. We embody freedom through unapologetic Black/Afro-diasporic Sound. S O U L F O L K are kinfolk, getting Free! #freedomfree-quencies
Who We Serve
S O U L F O L K Sounds provides services for children, teens, and adults with a range of abilities, bodies, musical skill levels, social identities, and health needs. Our communities are inclusive of youth impacted by incarceration, survivors of sexual violence, LGBTQIA+, and disabled, neurodivergent Black/Afro-disaporic and POC Folk.
Community
A space for resource-sharing and community care.
meet the founder
kei [pronouns they/them] is a Queer Black Genre-Bending, Gender-Expansive Musician, Sound Artist, Music Therapist, and Community Activator from New Orleans. An award-winning Singer-Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Composer, kei’s early musical influences can be traced back to the gospel-shout feels of the Black Church and beyond. kei is a Vocal Psychotherapy-trained Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) building from an intersectional, community-based, and Queer Black Feminist framework. Committed to healing justice and cultural organizing, kei has over a decade of experience working with youth and LGBTQIA2S+ BIPOC. Settings have included: trauma-informed residential treatment facilities, juvenile justice centers, K-12 schools, faith communities, mental health centers, and more. kei launched S O U L F O L K Sounds out of their desire to activate and have more access to liberatory spaces for Queer + Trans BIPOC to heal, dream, and conjure ancestral incantations of freedom.
kei holds a Bachelor’s in Music Therapy, an MFA in Music Composition, and an MA in Mental Health and Wellness Counseling from New York University, and is a PhD student at Lesley University. Learn more: keislaughter.com.
Contact
Be in touch to gain more information or to schedule a free consultation.
Listen.
Listening Sample:
Check out this QTPOC freedom cypher facilitated by S O U L F O L K Sounds Founder, kei slaughter, at awQward Camp New Orleans (2017).
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde
