Amelia White, Jess Klein

Fantastic double bill of U.S singer-songwriters featuring Amelia White from East Nashville and Jess Klein from New York City.

If there were an East Nashville music hall of fame, Amelia White would already be in it. The now-famous scene was in its formative days when White arrived from Boston in the early 2000s and became a fixture at the family wash. She's been a leading light in America's most musical zip code ever since, even as she's developed a reputation in the rest of the U.S. and Europe as a first-rate songwriter. She helped define and refine the core of folk-rock sound of Americana, yet her band's energetic pulse never outshines her carefully wrought lyrics. She's a poet who's been compared to more famous songwriters for years; now, it would be more appropriate to use her as a benchmark.

The New York Times calls Jess Klein “A songwriter with a voice of unblinking tenacity.” Over two decades and 11 albums, Klein has built a powerfully personal body of work that reflects an instinctive emotional insight, an organic sense of introspection and an unshakable social conscience. Her newest release, Back to My Green explores what it means to maintain hopefulness in America in 2019. It also reflects a bevy of changes in Klein’s personal life, including a new marriage to fellow songwriter Mike June and a cross-country move from the “Live Music Capital” of Austin, TX to rural North Carolina.