Live at The Ark: Michigan songwriters Chris DuPont & Kylee Phillips, Aug. 27

CHRIS DUPONT & KYLEE PHILLIPS

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20/$27
Michigan songwriters join forces

Tonight’s show presents a pair of rising Michigan songwriters, joining together as well as performing their own songs. Chris DuPont comes from Grand Rapids and now lives in southeastern Michigan. He describes what he does as “folk/ambient/singer-songwriter” music, and he’s been influenced by His hybrid finger-style approach to guitar-playing is a nod to classical minimalism, but sure to get you nodding your head too. Chris is influenced by a wide range of artists and composers from Philip Glass to Tycho, from James Taylor to Ryan Adams to Oh Wonder. Chris’s music has tended toward the dark and serious—and also toward the spiritual (he’s music director at St. John the Baptist Church in Ypsilanti). He’s been featured in the influential online publications Paste, Songwriting (UK), and The Bluegrass Situation, and he has a recent album, “Floodplain.”
Kylee Phillips is a pop singer-songwriter and a proud Michigan native. Her family is pretty sure she came out of the womb singing, but her earliest memories of songwriting are at the age of ten or so, writing words and melodies in her head. By 14 she was able to put chords and instrumentation to those songs, and ever since, she has continued to evolve and find her own voice. Growing up she learned storytelling from Ben Folds; she learned to belt from Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood; she learned melancholy from Rufus Wainwright; she learned pop from Savage Garden and Sara Bareilles; she learned warmth from James Taylor; she learned hard work from Carole King; and she learned how to love music from her father. For the past decade, with the help of her husband and production partner, Ben Fisher, her sound has continued to develop into something that feels fresh and authentic to who she is.

http://www.chrisdupontmusic.com/
https://www.kyleephillips.com/