The voice between worlds—channeling the energy of air and water through indie soul, folk, and poetic flow. Blujae’s music is a sacred space for vulnerability, joy, and remembrance of unconditional love. Rooted in authenticity and guided by freedom, Blujae
Robbie Sender is a Milwaukee based singer songwriter, blending elements of country, folk, and roots music with punchy and poetic storytelling. Making his debut in 2025, he has since found himself welcomed with open arms by the traditional country community, the folk-punks, and everyone in between. Lyricism lies at the heart of his music, drawing on influences like Townes Van Zandt, Luke Bell, Conor Oberst, and is quick to quote Tom Waits: “I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary”. Raised on pop-punk and Patsy Cline, he leans on the ancient wisdom of the greats – four chords and the truth.
J.R. Wesley is an independent musician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known for blending folk, indie, and roots-inspired sounds into his music. Wesley’s work spans acoustic storytelling, folk ballads, and indie-roots arrangements, often drawing on personal and narrative themes. His music is available for streaming and purchase via Bandcamp and other platforms jrwesley.bandcamp.com+1. He has released an EP titled Indiana (deluxe), which includes tracks like “don’t count him out”
Kavon “KJ” Cortez-Jones is a Milwaukee poet whose gregarious presence draws audiences into his waterfalls of words. He celebrated his 28th birthday in 2022.
“I try my best to be an ambassador of the city. I wish folks saw Milwaukee in the way that I see it,” KJ says. “I feel I lived through certain different angles of Milwaukee, through the traumatic inner city and then diving into the community.”
KJ published Club Noir, a collection of his poetry in 2016. In 2022 he was looking ahead to releasing a new book including a hundred of his favorite memories with 100 Milwaukeeans in time for his 30th birthday in 2024. “Two years is enough,” he says.
In his 2016 collection of poetry, self-published as the book Club Noir, KJ called Milwaukee the “Paris of the Midwest.” In his written and spoken words there is an evident love of the city, its people, its quirks, its rhythms. There is also an uncalculating intimacy that swings on lattices of playful syllables from youthful nostalgia through emotional internality to careful observation of urban life. Overall, readers—and especially live audiences—are struck by the expansiveness of KJ’s sonic portraits, washed by waves of his rolling words.
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