Kelly Koval & Zelma Stone LIVE at Blue House Stage

Join us on Friday May 24th as we welcome Kelly Koval and special guest opener Zelma Stone to Blue House Stage for Kelly's album release! We can't wait to see you to gather together to enjoy live music, joy, and one another in the heart of the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains.

Kelly Koval - www.youtube.com/@kellykoval

Zelma Stone - www.zelmastone.com/

Bring your blanket and/or your lawn chair and make yourself at home. Farm goods, food pop-up, and libations for purchase. Feel free to meander through the vineyard, coo with the chickens, snuggle the kitties, and get some love from our farm doggies Otis and Ozzy.

No pets please (we have plenty)!

Doors 6:00pm

Show 7:00pm

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Kelly Koval (Santa Cruz)

Following the sudden death of her Mom in 2019, Kelly Koval coaxed out songs in the solitude of Shut Down that would soon become her debut solo album, Wake. These songs, both coarse and tender, unrelentingly shine a light on the grief and gratitude that thrives in the aftermath of loss. Described as alternative folk, Kelly's music is highlighted by her emotive vocals and ruminating lyrics that search for clarity in the chaos. Her long awaited album marks a new era in her collaborative music career that will give listeners nostalgic reminders of the impact and expansiveness of unending love.

Zelma Stone (Los Angeles)

Since the release of their first EP as Zelma Stone in 2019, queer artist Chloe “Zelma” Studebaker (she/they) has shown themselves to be an inimitable songwriter, capable of holding life’s most challenging complexities with both tenderness and craft. Sorrow and acceptance, love and loss, faith and doubt sit side-by-side in the gripping sonic worlds she builds, her voice a raw harbinger of truths that are at once devastating and affirming. Her latest EP A Dance is her most sharply-focused work yet, the result of an artist both unafraid to probe her heart and ready to release herself from the grip of a painful past.

Though Zelma began the project in her childhood home outside San Francisco in 2017, the foundations of her music are rooted in a childhood spent listening to her older brother play guitar and write music, and absorbing the music he and her grandfather shared. Early influences like Patsy Cline and Elvis gave way to a fascination with Bossa Nova and contemporary left-of-center songwriters like Amen Dunes. The art of songcraft became Zelma’s first safe haven in early moments of profound grief, her songs the space through which she could exercise, explore, and transmute pain.

Zelma Stone has been a mainstay of the Bay Area music scene since the project’s founding. She has opened for artists such as Bartees Strange, Miya Folick, Madeline Kenney and Alice Boman, and has released three previous EPs, including the critically-acclaimed Dreamland(2020), which NPR called “Beautiful and appealing,” noting “a quiet defiance in these songs.” Newly relocated to Los Angeles and releasing her fourth collection of music, this defiance has been energized with decided purpose. “I’m here and ready for love,” she repeats over the course of “Be The One,” affirming that both as person and artist she is ready, open, here.

Host or Publisher Brooke Lipman