Kris Delmhorst

• Folk
• Singer/Songwriter

Over more than 25 years as an independent artist, Kris Delmhorst has built a body of work characterized by wide-ranging, genre-agnostic curiosity and constant collaboration. In addition to her nine critically-acclaimed studio albums (“bold and brilliant” – Irish Times, “literate and allusive” – Boston Globe, “moody, euphoric and transcendent” – LA Times), she’s written music for films and TV, contributed as a producer, player, and or/singer to scores of fellow artists’ work, and performed thousands of shows across the US and Europe. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, the songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and their daughter.

Delmhorst’s new album Ghosts in the Garden (3/7/25) is a layered, kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, loss, and fate. Inhabiting the record are a host of vivid spirits made tangible: the departed and the disappeared, sins and their consequences; lost loves, missed chances, and the invisible sorrows that accompany us all. With richly observed details and finely calibrated emotional range, Delmhorst finds the wavelength that illuminates these multitudes and invites them into an expansive conversation about the ways we’re shaped by loss, and woven together by unseen threads of love. An illustrious procession of guest vocalists – Anaïs Mitchell, Rose Cousins, Anna Tivel, Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, Rachel Baiman, Jabe Beyer, and Jeffrey Foucault – brings prismatic brilliance to the tracks, refracting the individual slant of each song’s light.

Sam Moss

• Folk
• Guitar
• Singer/Songwriter