Meet the Beautiful Humans

Rowan Desautels, is an up and coming singer-songwriter from New Bedford, Massachusetts.  Rowan discovered her love for music at the age of 11 when her mother rekindled her high school romance with Rowan’s now step-father, John Brittingham.  Rowan and John performed a song together at Rowan’s great-grandfather’s funeral, and the two have been playing music together as Beautifully Human ever since. Rowan is a junior at Dartmouth High School, where she has starred as Sophie in the DHTC production of Mama Mia and as Sandy in Grease. She is currently cast as Fantine in Stage Artistry Studios' upcoming production of Les Miserables. Rowan hopes to pursue a degree is Music and Musical Theater, and has dreams of moving to New York City. When not singing or playing piano (which is almost always), you can find Rowan drawing sketches, with her nose in a book, writing short stories, playing Dungeons & Dragons, or playing Cora Cartwright as a member of the cast at King Richard's Faire. 

Richie Oliver is a multi-talented singer, musician and artist based in Lakeville, Massachusetts and boasts a diverse catalog of original Folk music, poetry, and covers spanning various genres. When Richie is not playing with Beautifully Human, you may find him in his one-man, acoustic tribute to Cat Stevens. 

Richie isn’t just a musician. A member of New Bedford Theater groups Your Theatre Inc. and The Collective, Richie’s past stage roles include Albert Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Meg in Crimes of the Heart. 

When not on a stage, Richie works as a Budtender and Marketer in the Cannabis Industry. He is also a member of the cast at King Richard's Faire.

John Brittingham began his musical journey in the 90's in Southern California, where his band The Easy Ryders gathered a steady following of like-minded, music-loving humans, and eventually became the de-facto opening act for many headlining reggae bands touring through the area. Originally a percussionist, John had the opportunity to share the stage with some of the legendary Reggae greats such as Steel Pulse, Rusted Root, Eek-a-mouse, Meshell Ndegeocello, Damien Marley, and the remaining members of the legendary group The Wailers. Given the opportunity to pass his love of music on to the next generation of performers, he has worked to rekindle his talents out from behind the drum set, in order to develop a new creative avenue for expression alongside his step-daughter Rowan. When not making music, John works as an engineer on satellite communications platforms and is the proud father of three boys and two step-daughters.  

Tips and gig proceeds will help the band record their first original album! 

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