2025 Festival
March 28-30, 2025 Phoenix, AZ
Co-Sponsored by
Additional Support
The 11th Annual Oh My Ears (OME) New Music Festival will take place March 28-30, 2025 at multiple venues in Downtown Phoenix. Applications are due by Friday, December 8th, 2024 at 11:59pm (MST). Applicants from any state in the U.S. as well as international artists are welcome to apply! There is no application fee.
We expect everyone to be responsible and professional. We expect prospective artists to be detailed and honest in completing their applications. We ask our artists to do their best to help promote their participation in our festival and use their social media presence to promote what they’re doing at OME - we will provide social media cards to make this an easy task. We expect artists to respond to communications in a timely manner so that we can keep things running smoothly.

Festival Program

Improvisations of the moment

Artist Bio

Playing music that is improvised on the spot, BoomSquawk is the clarinet and piano duo of two life-long best friends: Cameron Hewes & Elliot Keeler. All of BoomSquawk’s music is improvised, guided with a constraint such as “a story in three parts,” a melodic jumping off point, or absolutely nothing at all and the two performers are simply responding to the now. Both performers have been playing music together and separately since early childhood. Although the two met in 5th grade, 20 years later, BoomSquawk is a new formalization of their storied performance past.