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ivy room presents

APRIL 3, 2025

(partially seated show - first come, first served)

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Ghosts in the Garden Album Release

Kris Delmhorst

Kristen Ford

7pm doors / 8pm show

$22 ADV / $25 Day of Show

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IVY ROOM | 21+

Kris Delmhorst

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KD GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN MIDSIZE BIO (250 WORDS)

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 – Anaïs 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.

Inhabiting the record are a host of vivid spirits made tangible: the departed

and the disappeared, sins and their consequences; lost loves, missed

chances, and the invisible sorrows that accompany us all. With richly

observed details and finely calibrated emotional range, Delmhorst finds the

wavelength that illuminates these multitudes and invites them into 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

Kristen Ford

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Kristen Ford is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist influenced by greats such as Alanis Morrisette, Radiohead and Ani DiFranco. She navigates life as a biracial, queer girl and tours globally in pursuit of the perfect show. Her live performance morphs from unplugged solo acoustic to screaming, electric guitar soloing in front of a rock band to her dynamic one woman band using loops, beatboxing and a healthy case of ADHD to her advantage.

Ford’s Righteous Babe Records debut was produced by Ani DiFranco, mixed by John Driskell Hopkins (Zac Brown Band) and is set to release in 2025. Kristen is endorsed by Gallagher Guitars, K&K pickups & G7th Capos