Kelly Hunt
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“Kelly Hunt sings with the lilting cadence of a folksinger born somewhere far away,
sometime long ago.”
— ROBERT CRAWFORD [ROLLING STONE COUNTRY]
“Standing shoulder to shoulder with contemporaries like Gillian Welch and Rhiannon
Giddens…folk music harking back to the stripped-down sounds of Leadbelly, Robert
Johnson and Woody Guthrie.”
— JOHN VAITES [AMERICANA UK]
“…the musical equivalent of a book you can’t put down, one you’ll want to revisit again
and again to catch every nuance and turn of phrase.”
— STACY CHANDLER [NO DEPRESSION]
Memphis-raised singer-songwriter, Kelly Hunt, paints stories as old and offbeat as her
Depression-era tenor banjo and parlor guitar, reimagining traditions of folk, country,
and old-time music in a style that hovers beyond the constraints of genre. Hunt’s debut
album, Even The Sparrow, was released in May 2019 and named as a finalist for the
International Folk Music Awards “Album of the Year.” Her sophomore album, Ozark
Symphony (recorded with Grammy-winning musician/producer, Dirk Powell, and slated
for release in Fall 2023), casts her among the ranks of modern-traditionalist
songwriter/poets such as Anaïs Mitchell & Gillian Welch. Kelly is joined onstage by her
long-time duo partner, Staś Heaney (violin/accordion).