Halley Neal with Jim Rezac LIVE at The Listening Booth!

Name: Halley Neal with Jim Rezac LIVE at The Listening Booth!
Start: 2025-10-26T13:00:00-04:00
Location: The Listening Booth

Schedule

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Listening Booth | Lewes, DE

For Fans of Sara Bareilles, Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Singer/Songwriters
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Halley Neal is an award winning folk singer and songwriter whose live shows center on themes of positivity and peace. The formerly-Nashville-currently-Boston-based artist is often joined by her backing band of upright bass and fiddle. Halley’s lyrical folk-Americana songs are met with her soaring vocals and an upbeat bluegrass inspired instrumentation. Halley has gained national recognition from touring across the country to listening rooms and folk music venues and from her performances at festivals, notably the Kerrville Folk Fest, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Halley released her most recent solo record “Beautiful and Blue” to critical acclaim on September 30th, 2022. Her live shows are remembered for her effortless vocals and honest lyrics.
Graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2019, Halley was chosen from the graduates to perform a song at Berklee’s Commencement Concert at Agganis Arena. The concert honored the 2019 Berklee honorary doctorates, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, and Alex Lacamoire, who all attended the show. In her final semester at Berklee, Halley collaborated with artist Plot Twist and her former band Rose & Kennedy to write and release a single called “Lover” which shortly after gained notable traction on Tik Tok. Since it’s release in July 2019, the song has gained over 27 million streams and has seen global acclaim with covers and Tik Toks of the song posted by people from all over the world.
Shortly after graduating from college, Halley moved to Nashville, TN where in her first few months, she was a chosen finalist for “Nashville Rising Song,” a premiere songwriting competition. In Nashville, Halley also hosted house concerts in her backyard bringing together a community of independent musicians. In 2020, Halley became an official Guild Guitars artist, and performed a set of original music at the 2021 NAMM Show with Guild. She is also one of the first artists to participate in Guild’s “Factory Sessions” YouTube series, where she performed an original set of songs live in the Guild Guitars factory in Oxnard California. Currently, Halley tours nationally to house concert and listening room venues.
Halley’s debut self-titled record was released on June 4th, 2021. Halley Neal blends sounds that Neal picked up throughout her time studying at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, as well as in the city she now calls home, Nashville, TN. The record includes a collaboration with artist Plot Twist and her former band, Rose & Kennedy, in an acoustic version of their song “Lover,” and another which was produced by guitarist for Zac Brown Band and former John Mayer co-writer and producer, Clay Cook.
Halley released her second album, "Beautiful and Blue" on September 30th, 2022. She made the record while grieving the loss of her grandmother to dementia. Dedicated to her Gram, on “Beautiful & Blue” Neal discovers the joyful parts within sorrow. Her recent sound blends effortless layered vocals with Americana production, and is deeply rooted in ideas of positivity and peace with a throwback to classic folk production.
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“Indy-garage”… that's what I play." Jim Rezac 2024 is proving to be a Big one for the Delaware native. In the spring, “Telescope”, Rezacs’ first self written/recorded/produced/mastered & distributed LP came out. His song, "Trying 2 Be An Angel" was picked up by a feature film for release in 2025! (the movie is 'Meathook'...I'm not making that up!) The songwriter landed a coveted spot at BETA Hi-Fi Festival and will be performing/competing at WXPN's World Cafe Live! in July. And this year will mark Jim’s 5th trip in a row to the Best and Biggest Free outdoor music festival in the U.S…. MUSIKFEST! Musikfest, a 10-Day festival in Bethlehem has become a favorite showcase for the songwriter. Jim makes his first appearance at Fringe Fest, in Rochester, NY. Jim will be performing at Rochesters' Music Hall of Fame in Sept. And a few years ago, the songwriter/performer won Best Song for a Fictional Podcast for his "Theme to Muckey Landing" at the international event, New Jersey Web Fest. (The podcast itself went on to win Outstanding Comedy as well). Jim Rezac is a different kind of songwriter. From Delaware, he's been playing guitar all his life. But it wasn't until a dozen years ago that the writing bug bit him. He hasn't recovered yet. When the First State musician isn't helping others enjoy the guitar at his humble studio in Wyoming, DE....he's writing. And writing some more. Rezac has performed at venues such as The Bitter End (NYC), The Avalon Theater (Easton, MD), Wilmington Grand (Wilm., DE) The Rockshop Performance Arts Center (Camden, DE) and Songwriter Showcases in NJ, PA, MD, and DE. He's played MusikFest (Bethlehem, PA) for a number of years now and has been featured on local WBOC-TV about half a dozen times, recently. His songs & lyrics have been describe as 'honest' ... 'powerful'. And that's good enough, Jim says. Please drop us a line to tell us how you found Jim...look for "Tryin 2 Be An Angle" in the movie, Meathook in