Newport Live presents: Phoebe Hunt

“With a twang in her voice and her trademark energetic fiddling, Texas singer-songwriter Phoebe Hunt tells the story of a woman who is determined to make her own way in the world.” — NPR

Please join us at the Museum for a live concert by Texas soloist Phoebe Hunt. Hunt’s sparse and vulnerable new album, Nothing Else Matters (2023) feels like an exercise in stripping things away – peeling back all the layers to get to the heart of who and what she really is. After years of writing, recording, and touring as a band member and leader, her latest recording finds her as a woman standing alone, just her voice and her fiddle. In that space left behind,Nothing Else Matters is an album that asks many questions, the most central being “Is this enough? Am I enough?”

Drawing from 30 years spent studying the violin/fiddle, Hunt weaves her classical upbringing with Appalachian Old Time, Texas Swing, and a maturity of songwriting that creates an unfiltered, raw expression dripping with palpable vulnerability.

“Listening to Phoebe Hunt’s newest project, Nothing Else Matters, conjures up a host of adjectives — ethereal, plaintive, haunting, tender. After years performing as a part of The Belleville Outfit and then fronting The Gatherers, Hunt has created an album that is completely stripped down to the essentials: herself and her fiddle.”
– Nancy Posey, No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music.

Tickets are $35, cash bar.

About Newport Live

Celebrating diverse music traditions through vibrant performances.
Newport Live was previously known as Common Fence Music, originally established by Ed Nary in 1993 to make folk music accessible in Portsmouth, RI. Decades later, our concert series has evolved to providing diverse music across Newport County, continuing to attract audiences from all over New England to performances featuring GRAMMY award-winning songwriters and musicians, and other highly acclaimed music artists from across the globe.