Friday, July 29th • 5:30pm • Main Stage
You don’t have to believe in anything mystical to feel the molecules around you shift just a little when you listen to Kris Delmhorst. Her songs transmute like breath turning to mist on a cold, clear night; the inner made visible. Twining through every layer of consciousness, this music weaves together the magical and the mundane with the strange logic of dreams.
Called “bold and brilliant” by the Boston Globe and “transcendent” by the LA Times, Delmhorst is a veteran of the indie Americana world, with vivid songwriting, soulful delivery, and adventurous arrangements that stretch the limits of genre. A multi-instrumentalist and constant collaborator, she is currently based in western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and their daughter.
Delmhorst’s eighth studio album, Long Day in the Milky Way, was released in the summer of 2020. Alive with layered vocals and an immersive landscape of instrumentation, it finds the artist at the height of her craft and working with a strong sense of purpose. World-weary but hopeful, Delmhorst responds to a time of global anxiety with a missive straight from the chest. These songs invite the listener to look both outward and inward, to take in the full kaleidoscope of life’s contradictions – persistence, frustration, heartbreak, love – and to locate the grace within the struggle, the beauty in the dark.
Website: krisdelmhorst.com