Yearly moves, changes in geography and a personality “like talking to a child with ADHD”, Kristen has been hailed as having “no easy way to categorize the music, the real deal” and a “musical cuisinart”, Kristen plays everything from Reggae to Country to Folk to Pop on a handful of instruments, guitar, ukulele, piano and beatbox. Energy binds her eclectic tastes together and makes the live show a must see.

Over the past 3 years the Kristen Ford Band has changed membership but consists of Drums, Upright Bass, dueling guitars and violin. Band members add to vocal harmonies and fill up the stage with grooves. While each show is a little different, you can be sure the songs will shine as bright or brighter than the record, with energy bursting at the seams.

Chicago Based acousti-electro pop

Raised in California, Anna has also lived in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Australia, and now Boston. With a penchant for formulating story-line, Anna shapes her songs around characters which listeners recognize as themselves, and people they’ve encountered.

Known for lilting melodies and gut-wrenching lyricism, Anna’s debut album Peddler’s Wares nods to her folk roots, and features her emergence in the Boston indie scene. It highlights her signature style of combining melodic bass guitar with soaring vocals: pleading, spare, offering comfort and an honest appraisal. The album features multi-instrumentalists from the Boston music scene and demonstrates the influence of Mason Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Patty Griffin, AA Bondy, and Radiohead. Songs range in style from folk-rock to indie-pop, their themes at once self-reflective and universal, expressing the tension between wilderness and city living, seeking forgiveness and accepting blame, deisre and loss, love and distance.