austin willacy

Austin Willacy is a musician, a cappella artist, producer, mentor, and facilitator.

As a musician, he has collaborated with and mentored a diverse range of vocalists, songwriters, DJs, and other producers, of all ages, in and out of the studio. Alongside his solo music career, he’s performed over 2500 shows in 15 countries with the critically-acclaimed a cappella “rock band without instruments”, The House Jacks. And for many years, Austin has directed and mentored 'Til Dawn, Youth in Arts’ award-winning teen a cappella group that empowers youth to find their voices in many ways.

Environmental Peacebuilding

Austin has worked for many years at the intersection of art, technological “progress”, community, and environmental peacebuilding. Austin is community organizer who uses music as a tool for peacebuilding with a focus on environmental, racial, and gender justice.

Through song, dialogue, and play, Austin helps communities ‘connect the dots’ between theory and practice, conflict and peace, ecology and culture. He has served as a facilitator in Egypt, Turkey, India, Israel, and Palestine, using his unique blend of activism and musicianship to inspire relationship-building and collaborative action.

He is an Environmental Peacebuilding Association Fellow, and performed work at the 3rd International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. His original song, “The Path to Peace”, is a collaborative music video featured in the Nature Footprints virtual art collection.

Songwriting & Emotional Literacy

For the past two years, through a collaboration with the Santa Barbara County Education Office and Children’s Creative Project, Austin has done a songwriting and emotional literacy workshop.