How an Award-Winning Alaskan musician finds hope during a pandemic | INDIE ALASKA @indiealaska
How an Award-Winning Alaskan musician finds hope during a pandemic | INDIE ALASKA  @indiealaska
Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
After a year of pandemic and increased racial tensions, Ed Washington, an Anchorage musician who won best male vocalist at the 2020 Alaska Hip Hop and R&B Music Awards, shares a message of hope and wellbeing.

Ed Washington is releasing an EP on Feb. 14, 2021, called "The Hopeless Romantic". To follow him online, visit his artist pages:
facebook.com/edwashingtonii
instagram.com/ed_washingtonii
edwashington.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/edwardw2

Story by Jeff Chen
Video by Jeff Chen, DJ Spencer Lee, Ed Washington, Alex Troutman / Blackfish Media, Zane Penny / Medium Build
Music by Ed Washington and Medium Build

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