Ashley Kinoshita is a Hawai‘i-born sound healing artist, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of Earth Tones NOLA. She began her formal classical music training at age five and has remained devoted to musical practice ever since. Her formal studies have included piano, harp, flute, voice, music therapy, and sound healing practices across multiple traditions and cultures. This meeting of musicality and therapeutic understanding is at the heart of her work with Earth Tones NOLA.

At a time when technology can produce music and art at the push of a button, Ashley is drawn to the deeply human act of creating sound as a living, relational practice. Through a practice of deep listening, presence, and connection, she shapes each soundscape as it unfolds, responding to the collective energy as it shifts through the room.

Ashley sees her role in the community as an artist, guide, and facilitator, but never as the source of another person’s healing. She sees herself more simply as a conduit and a friend along the way, creating space for people to reconnect with the healing capacity already within themselves.