Vakili Band

Led by genre-transcendent singer/songwriter, Lily Vakili, the Vakili Band sound is "an electric blend of Rock, Soul & Psychedelia..." (Under The Radar) and Lily’s voice “compelling the way the first Patti Smith music gripped a listener, the Swans’ Jarboe enthralled or even Nico startled” (Americana Highways). Lily launched her recording career as a solo artist before forming the five-member Vakili Band; releasing three studio albums, Oh Alright , Walking Sideways , and Honey while touring up and down the East Coast. Her most recent project is the solo EP Tannersville, co-produced with Reed Turchi at Second Take Sound in NYC. Called a “casual, pensive, yet intensely luxuriant showcase” by Americana Highways, the songs from Tannersville accompanied her on her West Coast debut tour in the fall of 2024 (opening for John Douglas of Trashcan Sinatras). A new band album, also co-produced by Turchi at Second Take Sound, is due for release in fall of 2025. “My songs speak to people who know – whether it’s about desire, love, loss or defiance – they’ve been there in their own uniquely profound, but universal way. That’s the mystery, and the hope.”