Hear four singer-songwriters led by Abby Posner with Jessica Childress, Great Willow and Paula Fong.
Grand Vision and FAR-West collaborated to put this Spotlight Series line-up together through a generous grant from the Live Music Society.
FAR-West is the West Coast affiliate of Folk Alliance International. FAR-West offers creative and business resources for musicians, presenters and others in the folk-Americana communities of the western US and Canada. For the last several years, they have been placing the FAR-West Presents concert series at venues throughout LA.
Abby Posner is the 2023 USA Songwriting Competition winner and multi-instrumentalist known for her passionate and versatile musicianship across folk, roots, and pop genres. In addition to her upbeat performances, her music has been featured in TV, films, and radio worldwide, including The Fosters, This American Life, and Last Tango in Halifax, as well as campaigns for Facebook and Viacom-CBS. She also appeared in Fox’s Glee and Ken Burns’ PBS Country Music documentary campaign.
Paula Fong is an Americana singer-songwriter from Los Angeles with a sound that can vary from lilting trad folk, to upbeat country, to soulful grit. She currently sings back up vocals and tours with Abby Posner, is musical director for an Americana/folk music church service in the South Bay, and released her first solo EP, Chestnut Mare, in the fall of 2024.
Jessica Childress is a vocalist, award-winning songwriter, composer and performer based in Los Angeles. You can hear her original music on your favorite TV shows and films and sometimes even on stages across the West Coast.
Great Willow is the LA-based Americana duo James Combs and Erin Hawkins. Praised by leading Americana music magazine No Depression as “the perfectly combined voices…the stuff legends are made of,” their harmonies and songwriting have become a standout in the LA singer-songwriter and folk scenes.
