Tara Kelly

Folk/Americana singer-songwriter Tara Kelly is putting a new spin on the cosmic country of Kacey Musgraves and Emmylou Harris, with a songwriting style that evokes a darker, more mysterious edge.

Half-way through high school, Tara moved to Los Angeles from a rural town in southern New Jersey to write songs in any room she could and perform everywhere from stages at Six Flags to the iconic Troubadour. She was asked personally by Rhett Miller of Old 97’s to sing his hit duet “Fireflies” with him on a stop in LA after posting a cover of the song on Instagram.

Tara’s sound is deeply influenced by Cosmic American Music, fathered by Gram Parsons in the late 1960s and popularized by the likes of Linda Ronstadt and Brandi Carlile. Her lyrics allegorize a gamut of lived experience from heartache to mental health awareness, creating modern folklore that is all her own.