Kris Delmhorst with Chris Pureka
Doors 6PM / Show 7PM
Seated show
$20ADV / $25DOS
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, 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.
Delmhorst’s new album Ghosts in the Garden (3/7/25) is a layered, kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, loss, and fate. Working at Great North Sound Society, a studio built into an 18th-century Maine farmhouse that no doubt harbors ghosts of its own, Delmhorst tracked live with Ray Rizzo on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass, and Erik Koskinen on guitars. An illustrious procession of guest vocalists – Anaïs Mitchell, Rose Cousin 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.
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.
Kris Delmhorst lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and their daughter.
“bold and brilliant”
“literate and allusive”
“moody, euphoric and transcendent”
It’s rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Their music has straddled the folk, Americana and indie rock genres over the course of their 20 year career, and over that time, their bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of life in song has struck a chord with those listeners who crave authenticity and depth.
Chris’s elegant emotionality as a vocalist and their flair as a lyricist have garnered them favorable comparisons to Chan Marshall, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. Over many years of touring on both sides of the Atlantic, they have shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Cowboy Junkies, Haley Heynderickx, and Ani DiFranco. They have had their songs featured on such television shows as Brothers and Sisters, Covert Affairs and Shameless and well as a song featured in the Sundance featured indie film, The Royal Road. Along the way, Chris has remained truly independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through their own label, Sad Rabbit Records.