MI Songwriter Showcase hosted by Steve Taylor and feat Phoebe Holmes, Mike Ward & Ashley Markovitz

Name: MI Songwriter Showcase hosted by Steve Taylor and feat Phoebe Holmes, Mike Ward & Ashley Markovitz
Start: 2025-01-16T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 20 E Front St, Lake Orion, MI, United States, Michigan 48362

Schedule

Thu, 16 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

20 E Front St, Lake Orion, MI, United States, Michigan 48362 | Lake Orion, MI

Steve Taylor graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting. After college, Steve returned home to Michigan and became a fixture in the Detroit music scene while earning a Master’s Degree in Music Theory from Wayne State University. Blending soulful music and intimate lyrics, Steve Taylor performs all over Michigan as a solo acoustic artist and with his band, The Steve Taylor Three. Their latest album “Travel Light” was released in 2022 and all their music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever finer music is streamed. The band’s single, “Raining on Christmas”, won the Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Country Recording” in 2023.

Phoebe Holmes, a singer-songwriter from Lake Orion, is best known as one-half of the Keynote Sisters duo. Over the past decade, Phoebe has honed a distinctive sound that blends her diverse influences into music that feels both fresh and timeless. Her songs are known for their warmth and authenticity, drawing listeners in with compelling stories that leave a lasting impression. www.keynotesisters.com

Detroit singer-songwriter Mike Ward is known for his lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs. While growing up in Port Huron, Michigan, he listened to the Irish music of his heritage and sang in several choirs before digesting the influential sounds of Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan, Springsteen and John Prine. These days, he finds inspiration in the works of Jason Isbell, Sarah Jarosz and Lori McKenna. His intimate songwriting echoes through empty city streets, back country roads and family portraits. It also resides in the hidden spaces between joy and tragedy, love and loss.
Mike has released five studio albums, “We Wonder” (2018) ,“The Darkness and The Light” (2021), "Career Advice" a single (2021),“Particles to Pearls” (June 2022), "Love Never Rests" (April 2023) and “Still Troubled” (2024).
RECOGNITIONS: Mike’s song “Currency of Forgiveness” is a finalist for the Rocky Mountain Songwriting Contest in Red Lodge, Montana. He was an honorable mention in the 2023 Telluride Troubadour Songwriting Competition and 2022 Great River Songwriting Competition plus multiple Detroit Music Award finalists. He performs regularly at listening room venues, coffeehouses, house shows and festivals throughout Michigan and the Midwest. Why Psychosongs? Well, his nickname as a hockey player is “PsychoWard”. Enough said.

Ashley Pyle is a singer-songwriter, transplanted from the PNW to the Midwest, ready and excited to spread her light as far as it will reach. Using snapshots of moments in her life, steeped in the mundane and the extreme, she curates stories to resonate with her listeners and let them know they’re not alone. Time spent with Ashley Pyle will yield a dichotomy of community- an intimate experience of widespread outreach.