PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music will present a singer/songwriter showcase this Friday featuring Andrea von Kampen, Early Risers (Putnam Smith & Ashley Storrow), Jake Klar, and Lizzy Mandell. Early Risers, Klar, and Mandell will open the concert at 7:30 p.m. with an in-the-round set, before von Kampen’s debut performance at Next Stage.
A singer-songwriter from Nebraska’s Great Plains, von Kampen is known for her introspective storytelling and captivating melodies. She has shared the stage with artists such as Watchhouse, Punch Brothers, The Wood Brothers, and Anais Mitchell’s Bonny Light Horseman, released three studio albums, and performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. Headlining tours across North America and Europe, she has reached a global audience, with over 55 million streams on Spotify. In 2022, von Kampen made her acting debut in the independent film “A Chance Encounter,” starring in the movie and writing and recording its soundtrack. This fall, she will release a protest EP – a collection of songs that confronts “the hateful rhetoric that has reemerged in American politics, speaking truth to power and calling for justice and solidarity.”
Rootsy and lyric-driven, Early Risers’ songs feature close vocal harmonies and arrangements on an array of instruments – banjo, guitar, mandolin, piano, and shruti-box. After pursuing separate solo singer/songwriter careers, Smith and Storrow joined forces in 2015. The duo’s debut album “Making Life Sweet” climbed to #1 on the Folk DJ Charts, with four songs in the top 10 most played songs.
Rhythm and groove, grit and honesty, Klar’s music is part of the new Americana synergy that infuses rock and pop sensibilities with folk sincerity. His music seeks to turn a simple tune into something that connects us to both the stories and emotions that make our experiences worth remembering.
Mandell’s has released two albums – “Made for Flying,” which won Times Argus/Rutland Herald Tammie Awards for best singer/songwriter and best album in 2012, and 2025’s “To The Moon” in partnership with fellow Vermonter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, vocalist, and tunesmith Colin McCaffrey.
Next Stage is located at 15 Kimball Hill. Tickets are $22 advance / $25 at the door / $10 livestream. For information, call 802-387-0102 or visit nextstagearts.org.
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