Kyshona met Jessi Zazu in 2015 when Jessi asked her to be a part of the first "She's A Rebel: A Girl Group Tribute Show" in Nashville. Kyshona also dedicates her time to YEAH's Southern Girls Rock Camp and teaches a songwriting course to the women at the Davidson County Correctional Development Center.
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In 2014, Kyshona moved to Nashville, TN to pursue songwriting full time and continue her passion of working with community outreach groups, such as Music For Seniors and Send Musicians to Prison, providing music therapy. While living in Georgia, Kyshona spent years running an internship program for music therapists in collaboration with the University of Georgia as well as helped with the start of Girls Rock Camp Athens. She received her degree in Music Therapy from the University of Georgia. Kyshona Armstrong is a singer/songwriter with 16 years experience as a music therapist working with at-risk youth, the incarcerated, geriatrics, and mental health patients. It was Pat’s work with Youth Empowerment through Arts & Humanities, Inc., that brought her into contact with the very talented Jessi Zazu, and it is a privilege to work with her family and friends in carrying on her very ambitious legacy. Pat currently teaches yoga at Middle Tennessee State University and serves as Secretary for Jessi Zazu, Inc., and acts as non-profit advisor to the Board of Directors for Jessi Zazu, Inc. She graduated from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, and has been leading children’s acting and theater classes, administering youth arts camps and teaching Business Law at Middle Tennessee State University and at The University of Tennessee at Martin (1992-2012). She served as the Development Intern for Tennessee Repertory Theater in 2012.
(two terms, Chair of the Board of Directors), and The Children’s Academy Theater of Tennessee (continuing terms as organizer, Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Director). Her work within the community included administering several not for profit arts organization, including Murfreesboro Little Theatre (two terms, Chair of the Board of Directors), Youth Empowerment through Arts & Humanities, Inc. She formed and advised multiple corporations and limited liability companies every year, both for profit and not for profit, and often spoke at continuing legal education seminars on the topics of law office administration. She was the managing partner for the law firm she helped found in 1979, Blankenship & Blankenship, Attorneys at Law, and she practiced corporate, probate and estate planning law. Pat Blankenship is a retired attorney with 35 years of practice experience in Murfreesboro, TN.
Oakley loves working with kids, who he believes are the future of America. Oakley had his first experience recording as a back up singer on Jessi’s upcoming album.Įver since Oakley went to his first rock camp in Nashville, he has been inspired to volunteer for YEAH's Tennessee Teens Rock Camp and Southern Girls Rock Camp. He's also played solo for the farmers market, a winery, and a coffee shop. He later played in a second band “Slim Pickins” who played weekly at a tavern. They played an outdoor memorial benefit at the Moose and a benefit for New Roots in Louisville, Kentucky and then recently reunited for the Relativity art show in the fall of 2017. Soon after he started learning guitar, he experienced his first band, “The Papas”, with band members Emmett Wariner, Jessi Zazu and Linwood Regensburg.
After two years of high school, he got his GED and went to college to focus on science for three semesters before moving to Nashville to support Jessi during her illness. Oakley first started learning guitar at the age of ten. Also on the bill are recent ACM and CMA-winning country duo Brothers Osborne, along with Colter Wall, hot off the release of his impressive, self-titled debut, and Lilly Hiatt, whose new album is due in August.Oakley Wariner was born in 1997 and is Jessi Zazu’s youngest brother. Jason Isbell, touring on the back of his newly released Number One album with the 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound, will be playing the July 27th show at Nashville’s Basement East, as will his wife and collaborator, Amanda Shires. So to help with Wariner’s mounting medical costs, Oh Boy is staging a vinyl release party to help benefit the Nashville singer, guitarist and artist. Seven years on, Oh Boy is preparing to reissue the album on vinyl, but life has been turned on its head for Those Darlins’ co-leader Jessi “Zazu” Wariner, who now finds herself in the throes of a battle with cervical cancer. When John Prine’s record label, Oh Boy Records, released the Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine tribute LP in 2010, the closing track was a crunchy, moody cover of “Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian” by Those Darlins.
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