After Kelly’s stellar debut album “Even The Sparrow” dropped May 17 it consistently charted top 10 on both national folk radio charts for about a 12 week cycle and actually made a dent on the Americana chart (as we know, almost impossible for a Folk album these days). She’s gotten crazy national press surpassing our expectations, including critical demigod Greil Marcus in Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stone Country 10 Best Country and Americana Songs To Hear Now list (“Across The Great Divide”), Spotify Fresh Folk playlist, Pop Matters, fRoots, Bluegrass Situation, Americana Highways, John Schaefer WNYC Weekly Roundup/Sound Check, No Depression premier and expected year-end feature and a ton of other sites, publications, premiers and writers who have lined up behind the album. We put her on a support date for Josh Ritter a few weeks ago and she so impressed them that they want her for more of his shows. Critics are calling her a “neo-traditionalist”, and I don’t think we’d disagree although in my view labels can sometimes be nefarious things. And her approach to banjo is different, not Bluegrass - she chooses the voices of various banjos to support and complement song and arrangement. She’s on tour right now in duet format with multi-instrumentalist Stas’ Heaney.