With special guest Mark Erelli When creating her fourth album, the soulful and reflective Silver City, Amy Helm was guided by her North Star: women’s voices. “Women whispering, singing, shouting their stories - speaking the truth. I wanted to dig into that inherited narrative and reach for what I could.” The epistolary anthology is a collection of conversations that travel through time, exploring and celebrating womanhood in all its complexities. Silver City blends the folk twang of Helm’s childhood with gospel and soul, drawing inspiration from varied stories: the life of Helm’s great-grandmother, the story of a young fan struggling with substance abuse, Helm’s own life as a single mother and hard-touring singer. Recorded at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York, and produced by Josh Kaufman, the album finds Helm exploring themes of womanhood, single motherhood, and personal struggles, offering songs that are deeply personal and narrative-driven. With Silver City, Helm embraces the beauty of age, survival, and transformation through her powerful, story-rooted performances. Mark Erelli Mark Erelli is as comfortable turning adversity into finely embroidered rock n’ roll as he is embodying the lyrical spirit of our most celebrated troubadours. His extensive catalog celebrates the continuum of American music from folk to bluegrass to western swing, while extolling the mysterious glory of nature and love’s transformational power. Over his two decade-long career, the singer-songwriter-sideman-producer-writer has proven himself equally at home in a multitude of roles: producing albums for artists like GRAMMY-winner Lori McKenna; serving as a sideman guitarist for artists like Paula Cole, Marc Cohn, and Josh Ritter; and writing and producing his own material, like 2018’s “By Degrees,” which was nominated for Song of the Year at the Americana Honors and Awards. Most recently, Erelli has stepped up as an advocate for low-vision artists, working with venues to make their spaces more accessible. Written in the wake of his diagnosis with a degenerative retinal disease, his 2023 album Lay Your Darkness Down is the most recent stop on Erelli’s journey, following up on 2020’s Blindsided, which garnered praise from Rolling Stone Country, the Associated Press, NPR, The Boston Globe, and more.