Saturday October 14th – An Evening with Ladies of Folk | $22

Allysen Callery is an internationally touring musician from Bristol, Rhode Island. A self-taught artist, she draws comparisons to Sandy Denny & Nick Drake. Winner of Favorite Folk Act in RI 2023, and 2022 for Motif magazine.

Providence-based singer/songwriter Jane Hesser (a.k.a. Ground Weather) plays a gritty combination of soul-inspired indie and earthy, wholehearted folk. She is half of the band LIGHTS OUT, with John Kolodij. On occasion, she can also be found playing with her daughters, in The Understory and Freddy.

Mary Pierce, Singer/Songwriter and recording artist of Celtic/Folk/American music shares her original and inspiring music through her 5 albums. Mary has been inspired by many Irish and American Folk artists and her passion for writing can be heard throughout her music. Mary started writing music 12 years ago after a visit to Ireland. She would often bring her songs to her sister, Margi Gianquinto (pianist and harmonist), and the two would begin the journey together of adding harmonies and instrumentation to the songs. Mary and Margi have a unique sister vocal blend that has captivated audiences in Portsmouth, Newport, Narragansett, Jamestown, Maine, and CT and they recorded the first album of originals together called ‘Miles Away’.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Michelle Saylors, was born in Tennessee, where she grew up on a farm. Bluegrass, country, and gospel music were always part of life. Michelle began piano lessons around age 10. She is self-taught on guitar and mandolin and played mostly bluegrass music while in Tennessee. Living in Rhode Island since 2008, Michelle found her voice by taking time in solitude: to write, create, and play music that reflects her early musical inspirations and keeps her true to who she is as an artist. Her songwriting is rooted in the space between small-town Tennessee and coastal New England. She is currently recording her first full-length album.

Jen Long’s father has a word for musicians: scallywags. Jen is delighted to have become one at last! Don’t tell her dad, but she sings and plays guitar with SwampBirds, a Providence based Americana-ish group for which she has written several songs – some of which they even play. Jen has also improvised vocals with the Providence band Cardboard Cannons, sang for a decade with the Assembly of Light Choir, and has organized many shows including four Love Hangovers. She especially loves writing melodies to other peoples’ poems. A designer by profession, and artist to the core, Jen is the creative and often obsessive energy behind The Whale Guitar, a custom electric guitar inspired by Melville’s tale of an obsessive quest, “Moby-Dick”. Jen has personally lugged this “instrument of change” to hundreds of guitarists to play and sign in an obsessive campaign to amplify the need for ocean protection and climate justice. Jen is grateful for the opportunity to play today for you but is starting to obsess over this bio, so her therapist says she has to turn it in now as is. Thank you.