Kris Delmhorst

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 – Anas Mitchell, Rose Cousins, 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. These songs illuminate the spirits of what was and what might have been, creating 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” - Irish Times “literate and allusive” - Boston Globe “moody, euphoric and transcendent” - LA Times