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Music is a shared experience

 

Although we are independent artists, we don’t stand alone. 

 

Our journey as Red Oak Troubadours is profoundly coming to life by the support and collaboration of incredibly talented individuals. 
 


These artists and creators have not only contributed their skills and knowledge to our projects, they have become the branches of our Red Oak tree!

This page is dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the individuals of our creative community. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for their support and hard work. 

To all our supporters, collaborators, and friends: 
Thank you for being part of our journey!
Your contributions mean the world to us, 
and we are excited to continue creating and sharing our music thanks to you!

Miguel Martins

Producer

Miguel Martins, a musician from Porto, Portugal, began his musical journey with piano and guitar lessons, forming his first band during his adolescence. He earned a Master's Degree in Sound Design in 2009, coinciding with recording an album and touring Portugal with his band. Miguel worked as an assistant engineer at André Indiana's recording studio and toured with top Portuguese acts. In 2012, he studied Independent Music Production at UCLA, excelling academically and receiving the prestigious "Hal Gaba Scholarship For Writing Lyrics That Succeed And Endure." Returning to Portugal, he continued his musical career with "The Happy Mothers" before moving to London in 2014. There, he joined Bubblegum Screw and co-founded Neon Animal in 2017. Neon Animal's success included features in Classic Rock Magazine and European tours. In 2023, Miguel returned to Porto to collaborate with the Portuguese cult band ZEN and work on their new LP.  Miguel's career showcases his dedication, creativity, and musical expertise.

Kaia Pieters

Artwork Photographer

Kaia Pieters is a photographer based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She started her journey with photography in 2011 when she began taking pictures, at first with her cellphone camera, and later with her family’s DSLR. In 2013 she got her own camera, which she still uses to this day. Her photography is inspired by nature, folklore and fairytales, featuring characters such as knights, witches, elves and creatures you would rather not meet in the forest. Her photography has been featured on a number of album and book covers, such as the special edition of ‘Losing the Sun’ by German metal musician Black Autumn and ‘Le Ragazze Non Hanno Paura’ by Italian author Alessandro Q. Ferrari.

Ricardo Silva

Featured Artist

Born in Porto, Portugal, Ricardo started playing the diatonic harmonica aged seventeen. His passion for this instrument led him to big stages in his home country and so, aged twenty-one, he began to study music and learn the chromatic harmonica. In 2016 he moved to the Netherlands where he completed a bachelor’s and, later, a master’s degree in Jazz Harmonica at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (2020) and Amsterdam (2023) respectively.

Piercing through a wide range of genres, Ricardo’s harmonica has been heard live alongside artists such as Rui Veloso (Portugal), Marcos Cavaleiro (Portugal), Tim Ries (U.S.A.), North East Ska Jazz Orchestra (Italy) and Theo Bleckmann (Germany) and in venues such as Coliseu do Porto and Coliseu de Lisboa (Portugal), Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal), Ijsselmonde Theater (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Teatro Nini Marshall (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and more. His harmonica can be heard in recordings by artists such as Ronny deCarlo (Netherlands), Banda Matatu (Netherlands), Per7ume (Portugal), LOBO (Portugal), Efkan Şeşen (Turkey).

Besides playing harmonica and composing for Afro Fusion project Banda Matatu, Ricardo currently leads his own band - Ricardo Silva Group - and will be releasing his first album in the summer of 2025.

Yasmín Unfer

Dancer

Yasmín Unfer is a dancer, performer, and writer from Argentina, now based in the Netherlands. Her path in Expressive Dance opened into a vast journey through diverse traditions - from contemporary dance and physical theatre to tango, argentine folklore, belly dance, bollywood and kathak - shaping a language of movement that is fluid, versatile, and alive.

Her art breathes through the body as a vessel of emotion and imagination. She moves at the intersection of play and depth, embodying inner landscapes and giving form to the invisible.

Years of traveling and her background in holistic practices have refined her sensitivity to human nature and the subtle worlds of the psyche. She dances as one who listens: to the music, to the moment, to the unseen threads that connect performer and audience.

Isabel Martinez

Featured artist

Isabel Martinez was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1992. She is a multi-instrumentalist musician and actress. She studied acting at Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts, and is currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Sound Art and Technology at the same institution. 

She started her path in folk music in 2009, when she took interest in Portuguese bagpipes and traditional percussions and singing. She is and was part of multiple community, folk/trad and medieval projects: MãeBruxa, CRUA, Loba Galharda, Gambuzinos, Hadras i Baranas, arquiCoro, Lôa Trovadoresca, Colectivo Foice, Eiró, Leyriath, between other national and international collaborations. 

She is also a youth worker and seeks to establish close links between theatre, music, community and non-formal education in her work.

Diego Mocci

Featured Artist

Diego Mocci (drums, percussions, vox), born in Italy, moved to Scandinavia in his teens where he studied and toured extensively.

Diego has worked on drums with several local and international bands through the years. Some of them are Vibravoid (DE), The Lords Of Altamont (US), Bambix (NL), Atomic Workers (UK), Working Voodoo Club (NL), Baby Face Nelson (NL) and Zappatika (music of Frank Zappa with some of the old Zappa's band members as touring guests; Ike Willis, Twister Stewart, Jeff Hollie), 

On percussions, he performs with different DJ's during club nights. Diego's last music creations have been:

The Mood (The Mood - YouTube)...on stand by due to organist' s auditions (get in touch😉)

Black Widow (Black Widow The Band - YouTube), active, performing live regularly

André Sousa

Videographer

Born in Portugal, completed his studies in Critical Perspectives of Psychology and Cultural Sociology, Film Studies, and Theatre at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is a filmmaker, poet, photographer and self-taught musician. Founder of the informal audiovisual production company M154, he Directs, Edits, and Writes for various projects, including collaborations with institutions such as EAPN (European Anti-Poverty Network), EU, QPI (Qualify to Include), PT, and the Anne Frank House (Freedom2Choose), NL. Creatively, he has produced videos for musicians such as Foque, Telmo Sousa, 47 de Fevereiro, Jaca, Mário Lúcio, Manuel Maio, Pussy LeBouton, Ricardo Silva, Groupa, Antena 0, Dhoad, Romain Valentino and others.

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