Songwriter Showcase: Katie Haverly, Laura Jean, & Lizzie
7pm Doors / 7:30pm Show | $20 Preferred Table Seating / $15 Seated General Admission + DICE fees | All Ages
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Katie Haverly
Katie Haverly is a singer-songwriter “alt-rock polymath” who creates a joyous mesh of soulful pop, jazz, folk, and rock in her passionate live performances. Her music pierces the veil between 1960s and 70s Laurel Canyon ingenuity and modern-day indie magic, twisting and turning between Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, and The War on Drugs in equal measure. After living in such diverse locales as Colorado, Chicago, North Carolina, Albany, Tucson, and now Rochester, NY, Katie’s music displays a wealth of passion, living and maturity. Her songs map the human heart with an understated, but undeniable intensity topped with Katie’s languid, yet fierce vocal ability and an impressive lyrical facility. The listener is immediately drawn in, intrigued by what she has to say:
There are singers, and then there are singers – and Katie Haverly is one of the latter, with one of those spectacularly effortless-sounding voices that reaches all over the scale and explores all manner of sound without ever coming across as forced or strident or technically perfect for technical perfection’s sake. You hear the human being when she sings, not the studio or room or microphone that makes her sound so good, as the warmth and intimacy of her voice sucks you into the place where melody is pure and singing is an expression of a soul unbound. – Metroland.
Katie has had the honor of opening for artists including Macy Gray, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Isaak, Jake Shimabukuro and others, and has released 9 full length albums to date. She also has recently expanded her creative interests into filming, directing and editing her own music videos. Haverly also regularly composes music for television, film and dance and also works as a producer with other artists.
Laura Jean
You can find Tucson artist Laura Jean (aka Laura Kepner-Adney) on the back porch writing music that sounds like that’s where it came from. Her songs bridge Americana, alt-country, and lyric-driven roots music, drawing from her connection to the places she’s lived in the southwest and its colder kid sister, the midwest. She’s been playing in Tucson for a couple decades, toured broadly, appeared on stage with local and national acts, and put out three albums with the Laura Jean Band–the most recent, Shadow Ridge, released December 2024. RIYL Sarah Jarosz, Jason Isbell, Riddy Arman. www.laurajeanmusic.com
Lizzie
“Lizzie” is a Tucson born and raised indie folk musician. Her latest EP “Turn it into Art” came out this past November. The songs on this record navigate themes of growing up, friendship, and heartbreak, while showing how music can be a way to heal and bring us all together. She has been a finalist in the 2024 Tucson Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, a finalist in the Dusk Music Festival 2024 Battle of the Bands, has opened for artists such as The Wildwoods and Kaz Moon, and most recently won Alice Cooper’s Proof is in the Pudding 2024 Competition and opened for him at The Celebrity Theater!