Contact:
kamara@kamarathomas.com
Kamara is available for performances, site-specific commissions, collaborations, teaching and speaking engagements.
Kamara Thomas (she/her) is a Durham, NC-based songspeller, ritualist, and multidisciplinary storyteller working at the intersection of social practice, music, theater and film. In pursuit of surprising storytelling forms and the re/invention of collective mythologies, Kamara's site-specific performances activate galleries, stages, and public spaces and are multi-faceted– weaving together music/theatre performance, land-based ritual, communal artmaking and oral history, as well as documentary, narrative, and experimental film.
A seasoned performer in rock and country music, Kamara is also a vocal experimentalist who approaches and teaches singing as an embodiment practice—a portal between the personal and collective, the visible and invisible. Her ritual practice emphasizes stillness, deep listening, and an intentional relationship with the land and non-human presence.
As a recent Princeton Arts Fellow and lecturer, Kamara taught songwriting and multidisciplinary storytelling and presented her storyworks Xulgaria and Tularosa: An American Dreamtime, which received a 2022 MAPFund grant. She also spearheads Country Soul Songbook, a curation/production team rooted in the mission to amplify and archive BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices in American roots music and culture.
