Woven Green

Artist Information

Biography

BIO
Woven Green is a genre-bending jam band that has created a truly original and unique sound. With elements of rock, folk, funk, fusion, and world music, Woven Green skillfully transitions from one style to another, creating complex and nuanced pieces of music that are exciting, engaging and thought provoking. The band’s musical versatility converges with poignant lyrical content to create an artistic tapestry woven with themes of nature, love, awakening, and empowerment. The music of Woven Green is honest and real, offering a glimpse of hope in these tumultuous times.

The five musicians that comprise Woven Green complement each other’s skill and creativity. Featuring powerhouse female vocals and backing harmonies, rhythmic and percussive acoustic guitar, rockin’ electric guitar solos, dynamic wind playing, danceable bass lines and drumming that covers everything from Latin to tribal to rock. Whether young or old, rock fan or folkie, Woven Green has something for everyone!


LATEST NEWS
Original rock band, WOVEN GREEN continues to wow fans with their uplifting message and exceptional high-energy performances at notable area venues and festivals such as Hard Rock Cafe, Jammin Java, Rock and Roll Hotel, Empire Club, Capital Pride, Takoma Park Folk Festival, and many more! Since its release in November of 2009 their debut EP has been nominated for a prestigious Washington Area Music Award (“Wammie”) in the pop-rock category. Woven Green has also been awarded first prize for the Relix Magazine Jam Off Competition for their song "Sixth Sun" and is featured on the Relix CD sampler in the November 2010 issue. The song was also awarded honorable mention in the 27th Annual Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest. Additionally, the band received an award for their song "Between Worlds" in March 2010 for Mike Pender's Bandwars Competition.


"Woven Green enchants the audience with an artful intensity that is rare and phenomenal. Their creative performances do not go to predictable places, but each aural feast of a musical moment leads to the next one, and it goes exactly where it ought to go."
-Ron Goad Vice President SAW (Songwriters Association of Washington)

"I really love this band. I've had the pleasure and honor of booking them for The Adams Morgan Day Festival in Washington, D.C. The crowd always responds to their music. Jim's honest and soul striking songs are brought to life with Ashley's powerful vocals. The band as a whole has gelled into a strong force. No one can resist at the very least snapping a finger or tapping a toe! I highly recommend giving this band a listen! ....... and NO, they didn't pay me to write this ! ! ! LOL"
-Celestino Zapata, Director, Cultural Stage, Organizing Committee

"Woven Green is a bit off the beaten path; creating wonderfully addictive Pop/Folk/Rock songs with highly unusual subject matter. Woven Green is a superb introduction [and has] an unusually vibrant and intelligent sound. Woven Green’s debut EP, Woven Green, is sure to please."
-Wildy Haskell, Wildy's World - Rating: 4.5 Stars (Out of 5)

"... Woven Green meets their honest aesthetic with songwriting skill…[making] them a band to watch for fans of John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, OAR, Jason Mraz and others of the like."
-Stephen Carradini, Independent Clauses

Instrumentation

Ashley Cash - Lead Vocals/ Guitars
Jim Cash - Guitars/ Backing Vocals
Zujey D'Jesus - Drums/ Backing Vocals
Tom Harrison - Bass Guitar.
Mike Vitale - Saxophone/ Flute/ Backing Vocals

Discography

Woven Green EP (2009)

Woven Green LIVE The Blue Light Sessions CD and DVD (2010)

Links

• Facebook
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• MySpace

Audio

• Sixth Sun
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• Generation Zero
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• Wild Love
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• Between Worlds
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• Umbral Avenue
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• Where The Power Lies
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Lyrics

• Sixth Sun
• Generation Zero
• Wild Love
• Between Worlds
• Where The Power Lies

Video

One Leap.wmv

Photo Gallery

Press

• Relix Magazine Jam off Winner - November issue 2010
  

  Woven green will be featured on the Relix Magazine CD sampler in the November 2010 issue.

• Woven Green Debut EP receives 4.5 stars! [+ Show ]
  

  Woven Green - Woven Green 2009, Woven Green Jim and Ashley Cash met while students at George M...
  Woven Green - Woven Green
  2009, Woven Green
  
  Jim and Ashley Cash met while students at George Mason University. Him a late-blooming songwriter with a penchant for deep lyrics and esoteric yet memorable melodies; she with a voice that turns heads and drops jaws. It was a match made in musical heaven. Nowadays the married couple are the core of Woven Green, the Sterling, Virginia-based rock quartet with an unusually vibrant and intelligent sound. Woven Green’s debut EP, Woven Green, is sure to please.
  
  Woven Green opens with the effervescent Folk Rocker Wild Love. This uplifting song carries a Carpe Diem optimism, a memorable melody and the amazing voice of Ashley Cash who could front anything from a wedding band to an arena rock powerhouse without breaking a sweat. Woven Green breaks out the funk of Generation Zero, a song that calls out society for failing our children with less-than-competent education and healthcare. The song is highly danceable and yet runs deep with heavy subject matter; calling for a revolution of sorts -- a return to the American Dream that pre-dated the "Greed Is Good" generation. Sixth Sun starts out with a Middle-Eastern feel, ironic in that Sixth Sun is a reference to Toltec/Aztec prophecies about the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). It is a play into the coming mass hysteria over 2012, but calls for the sort of transformational change of society that is called for in the same prophecies. Woven Green says goodnight with Between Worlds, a spiritual call for self-consolidation; the sort of rising on consciousness required for humanity to evolve into whatever some believe we are to come next.
  
  Woven Green is a bit off the beaten path; creating wonderfully addictive Pop/Folk/Rock songs with highly unusual subject matter. Truth to tell, Woven Green is more like a religious album than secular one. The band sings their beliefs and is obviously looking to change the world through their music. I wouldn't make any judgments on that up front, as I don't know exactly what system of belief underlies it all, but it is something to bear in mind when you listen to them. Ashley Cash is going to get comparisons to Grace Slick, among others, and her voice is well-deserving of praise. Jim Cash's songwriting is also superb; nuanced and complex without ever overdoing on either quality. Woven Green is a superb introduction.
  
  Rating: 4.5 Stars (Out of 5)
  
  You can learn more about Woven Green at http://www.jimandashleycash.com/ or www.myspace.com/wovengreen. You can purchase the Woven Green EP on CD at Woven Green’s web store.

• Local Band Reaches a Global Market [+ Show ]
  

  Woven Green blends influences to create music to empower and entertain. By Jennifer Lesinski Jone...Woven Green blends influences to create music to empower and entertain.
  
  By Jennifer Lesinski Jones
  Thursday, December 03, 2009
  
  Talk about a trial by fire. Two weeks after joining the group Woven Green, drummer Zujey D’Jesus — who was discovered on craigslist — found herself in a studio laying down tracks for the band’s first self-titled EP. The result is four songs that combine the quartet’s varied influences and share a positive message without being preachy to the audience.
  
  "At the heart of the music is a message of empowering people," Jim Cash, the band’s songwriter and guitarist, said.
  
  The line up for Woven Green has only been playing together as a full band for about three months. The core, Jim and Ashley Cash, previously performed as Jim and Ashley Cash and Friends. Bassist Franz Kellner joined the group about a year ago. It was this incarnation that was slated to record the EP, but conflicts led to personnel changes and the addition of D’Jesus. The band, newly christened Woven Green — after one of Jim Cash’s songs, which was inspired by a Walt Whitman poem — was born.
  
  "Zujey and myself kind of changed the dynamic of the group," Kellner said. "The sound is raw and newer."
  
  "We knew from the first day that we played with Franz, he was our man," Jim Cash said. "Similarly with Zujey. I was on craigslist everyday to find the right person. It was like a needle in a haystack. Everything in her ad was what we were looking for. When we got together the first time, it wasn’t a surprise to me [that we all gelled]."
  
  THE BAND describes its sound as "eclectic rock," with each member bringing their personal influences to the table. The music is primarily rock, but becomes a mix of world music, jazz, funk and folk thrown in for good measure.
  
  "A song starts out as rock and ends up like Latin," D’Jesus said. "It’s a combination of different rhythms."
  
  "Some of it is synergy. When you get four people together with completely different backgrounds … we play off each other’s strengths. We’re empowered by it," Ashley Cash, lead vocals, said.
  
  The songs are also a reflection of Jim Cash’s vision of being able to bring about positive change in a world that is experiencing turmoil. And with the ever-growing digital world, allows the musicians to remain independent while reaching an international market. As a result, the band financed its first recording and isn’t seeking a record label.
  
  "Basically, we took out a mortgage on our house to do it," Ashley Cash, said. "As independent musicians, we own everything … which is important to us."
  
  "I’m not saying we don’t want to reap the rewards … there’s another intention. It’s not about ego and creating music to be rock stars. The shared thing is we’re all passionate about our music and craft," Jim Cash said. "We don’t want to come off as a message band, we want to have good music, too."
  
  Maintaining their own identity and sound has also met having to learn all aspects of the recording business, including doing their own public relations, scheduling performances, working with people to create their logo, EP artwork and photography and in general, just being business savvy.
  
  "Digitally, with MySpace, Facebook, digital music, blogs and pod casts, the size of the market is global now. We can sell our music overseas now," Ashley Cash said. "There doesn’t have to be a label behind you."
  
  WOVEN GREEN also thinks locally, by playing in venues and at festivals throughout Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The Cashes, who met while both were students at George Mason University, live in a townhouse in Sterling that also serves as the band’s home base and practice studio. When neighbors are out walking their dogs, they’ll stop to listen to the band play, Ashley Cash said.
  
  One of the band’s first "live performances" was at D’Jesus’ Ashburn home soon after she joined the line up.
  "We played at my house on the deck," D’Jesus said. "And people came and sat on the lawn." Ashley Cash adds, "People brought their kids out."
  
  Prior to the impromptu concert, the band had only played together once. Now they are looking to put together a tour throughout the northeast. In the meantime, the ensemble has upcoming shows at Miller’s Tavern in Fairfax, a monthly show at the Downtown Saloon in Leesburg and an appearance at Bangkok Blues in Falls Church, among others.
  
  When they aren’t performing, the members of Woven Green have jobs "that pay the bills." The Cashes provide music lessons through their business, Potomac Falls Music. D’Jesus is a dental assistant and also teaches music. Kellner, who lives in Silver Spring, Md., works in retail.
  
  "It’s a constant interplay. We’re doing what we have to do to keep us in an advantageous position to play music," Ashley Cash said.
  
  "I dream of being on stage and of having lots of people out there. Not to be famous, but to get our message out there," D’Jesus said. "The kids I teach have listened to our music and loved it. They really get the concept."

• Woven Green Weaves Some Unique Songs [+ Show ]
  

  "Woven Green wears everything on its sleeve. Even the band’s name points toward its philosophy; whil..."Woven Green wears everything on its sleeve. Even the band’s name points toward its philosophy; while not necessarily “green,” the members of Woven Green espouse taking care of the earth, being unified with each other, and loving one another. The lyrics bear no subtlety; Woven Green is what it is, and it’s not hiding it.
  
  The same aesthetic carries over into the songs on their self-titled EP. They have a sound similar to what you might imagine from the themes presented; a few parts wah-pedal funk, a few parts upbeat acoustic pop, a few parts middle eastern instrumentation. They wear their influences on their sleeve, not trying to hide. This total honesty is to be commended, as posturing, irony and cynicism has become the norm in independent music.
  
  Thankfully, Woven Green meets their honest aesthetic with songwriting skill. Woven Green has taken steps to make their songs not just your average song. “Sixth Sun” experiments not just with middle eastern instruments, but with middle eastern chord structures (which are unusual to the western ear, but intriguing!). “Between Worlds” uses strings in an unusual breakdown of sorts. “Generation Zero” has an extended guitar solo. “Wild Love” has a violin solo in the way that other bands would have a guitar solo. It’s these touches that make their songs better than the standard upbeat acoustic-pop fare.
  
  This four-song EP establishes Woven Green as a band that wants to take a tired genre and make it interesting again. I hope that their creative energy and unique ideas keep flowing to future releases. Their songwriting skill makes them a band to watch for fans of John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, OAR, Jason Mraz and others of the like."
  
  By Stephen Carradini
  Thursday January 7, 2010

• Honorable Mention [+ Show ]
  

  Woven Green's track, " Between Worlds" has received honorable mention for notable song writing achie...Woven Green's track, " Between Worlds" has received honorable mention for notable song writing achievement.

• SAW Showcase [+ Show ]
  

  Woven Green with Jim & Ashley Cash enchant the audience with an artful intensity that is rare and ph...Woven Green with Jim & Ashley Cash enchant the audience with an artful intensity that is rare and phenomenal. Their creative performances do not go to predictable places, but each aural feast of a musical moment leads to the next one, and it goes exactly where it ought to go.
  
  Songwriter Harry Blevins and I were mesmerized, and we glued our ears to each segment of every song to find out where it was headed. Harry was right when he smiled at me and said, "They have a vision, don't they?" At rare moments like that, I stop in my tracks and think "Oh yeah. That's why I do this."
  
  

• WGMU - Radio Interview
  

  available on itunes as podcast.

• WXJM Live! Radio Show and Interview
  

  mp3 release pending.

• Woven Green with Special Guest Bahi Sawinder Singh on Tabla Drums
  

  Translation pending. pdf available http://www.wovengreenmusic.com

• Adam's Morgan Day Festival [+ Show ]
  

  Jim and Ashley Cash: I must describe you two as "the dynamic duo"! Again, wow! What I like most ...Jim and Ashley Cash: I must describe you two as "the dynamic duo"!
  Again, wow! What I like most about the performance was that you brought
  your beliefs and ideas to the stage. It is rare that an artist or group
  of artists can pull that off without the appearance of being on a
  "soap box". The music was true to heart. Thank You!
  
  

Setlist

Band typically performs one 45-90min set of original music

WHAT"S IN A NAME?
“A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.”
-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

The name, Woven Green was born from Walt Whitman’s, Song of Myself. In the poem, Whitman turns the innocent question of a child into an invitation, pregnant with possibilities. For some people the name suggests a “state of liberation.” For others, Woven Green has become an iconic symbol of the “green movement.”

THE "GREEN" PROMISE
Woven Green is committed to the promotion of environmental stewardship. Their debut EP and newly released Live CD are packaged with recycled board, all promotional materials are printed on recycled paper, and their t-shirts are made with 100% organic cotton. The members of the band support local farms and do their best to eat as close to 100% local organic farm food as possible. Plans are currently being made to convert both the “mobile green room” (Woven Green’s camper) and the tour van to run on 100% alcohol.

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