From Up North to the Northern Suburbs, Kelley Smith and LaPlant Road will be visiting us on July 12th!!
About Kelley Smith
American singer-songwriter Kelley Smith is a hopeless romantic who fancies old poetry and grandpa sweaters. All at once whimsical and haunting, Smith delivers deeply affecting lyrics with wry charm and a time traveler's voice. Prone to melancholy and daydreaming, Kelley spent her childhood roaming the woods of Minnesota and singing to forest animals. To this day, her longing for that landscape runs deep and seems to find its way into her songs in one way or another.
Raised by musicians, Smith always had music in her bones, but it wasn't until she was 40 and a mother of four that her first record, Moon Child (2022), came to be. Her songs evoke a sense of belonging, juxtaposed with escapism, as she croons about long-term love, grief, and her draw to the night sky.
Since 2022, Kelley has shared stages with the likes of Charlie Parr, Dave Simonett, Wild Horses, Drew Peterson, Erik Koskinen, Stephen Wilson Jr., Storyhill, Molly Maher, Sarah Morris, and more.
About LaPlant Road
"Once upon a time, there were two girls who gathered often in the backwoods of northern Minnesota at a warm little white house on a back country road.
The girls grew up learning the oral musical tradition of passing tunes on to the next generation, and soon, they both were playing as many instruments as they could get their hands on.
Today, Emily and Liz carry on the tradition of deep appreciation for sounds that were and sounds that are to create their own collection of songs - infiltrated with folk, jazz, delta blues, bluegrass, r&b, rock n roll, and swing (to name a few), they create from their hearts and spirits in a way that only soul sisters can."