Artists:Kris Delmhorst

Kris Delmhorst grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with one ear permanently glued to the radio, a hopeless love of language, and a four-part-harmony-in-the-car family. She was a songwriter waiting to happen. Songwriting waited patiently as Kris traveled down various life paths: obtaining a studio art degree, living and working on a remote homestead farm in Maine, hitchhiking around Ireland while learning fiddle from old-timers, working on a seagoing schooner, and leading an outdoor education program for 5th graders on Cape Cod. The combination of these experiences led to the appearance of the first song in Kris' own voice in her early twenties. That beginning has since matured into a body of work reflecting the wide-ranging travels of an inquisitive artist.

Between tours, goes home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has planted musical roots in the vibrant Boston music community. This multi-faceted musician thrives on the range of opportunities to recombine and re-inspire – performing and recording as a supporting player on cello, fiddle, and voice, forming bands and side projects, and serving on the production team for two editions of “Respond” (award-winning compilations working to end domestic violence). One of these recombinations of talent has formed the band Redbird with fellow Whole Wheat Radio artists Jeffrey Foucault, Peter Mulvey, and David Goodrich..

Kris Delmhorst has built a thriving career and a devoted following from the ground up, and without major label hype. The same independence of spirit that led Delmhorst to spend some early years working on subsistence farms, cooking on a schooner off the coast of Maine, or hitch-hiking the back roads of Ireland with a fiddle on her back, is evident in the arc of her musical evolution: a willingness to work on her own terms and her own time.