Nahko and Medicine for the PeopleCourtesy Vicky Papas-Vergara

Time for some not-so-brutal honesty, dear readers: The music of Nahko and Medicine for the People is not for me.

Nahko is an Oregon native who leads a band that makes upbeat, uplifting acoustic pop music with touches of hip-hop, reggae and soul here and there. He makes Michael Franti sound like Minor Threat.

His lyrics preach inclusiveness and activism and the need for clean water and spiritual healing and societal change and stuff like that. I can’t argue with any of it.

Oh, and Nahko considers his art more of a movement than music. According to his bio, he has “set out to bridge the cultural gaps dividing his own psyche” and “wherever he has traveled, Nahko is joined by a tribe of culturally alienated truth seekers for whom (his) story resonates with their own, and who find redemption” in his music.

In concert, the bio says, he “delivers a soulful dose of curative vibrations” that “lays bear the scars of cultural wounds, environmental wrongs, and social injustices.” And don’t worry, his message may be weighty, but “the load is lightened by agile melodies and driving rhythms that coerce all who bear witness into spirited, purifying, movement.”

Wow! Is Nahko a musician or a deity? And to think, you hadn’t even heard of this guy a few years ago, or maybe a few months ago, or maybe a few minutes ago!

Anyway, he and his band is playing Munch & Music in Drake Park on Thursday, and whether I like their music or not matters not one whit. Go hear it for yourself.

Nahko and Medicine for the People at Munch & Music; 5:30 p.m. Thursday; free; Drake Park, 777 N.W. Riverside Drive, Bend; www.munchandmusic.com.