ISMAY is a musical experience wrapped around Avery Hellman. Without trying to limit ISMAY by any of the boxes we often put musicians in, their music is bluegrass, or country, or Americana, or folk, or something completely new. And Avery, a.k.a ISMAY, is a farmer, a singer-songwriter, an environmentalist, a cowburl, or some kind of person you're just going to be astonished by. Besides innovative and creative guitar, lyrics, and singing, you'll find wonderfully fresh and traditional videos and techniques like Finding Lucinda, Stranger In The Barn. and old-style Crankies. You'd expect no less from the grandchild of Warren Hellman, the founder of San Francisco's iconic Americana festival called Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Earth-based Spirituality, Jewish, Unaffiliated
All featured music is written and performed by ISMAY/Avery Hellman:
A Song In Praise of Sonoma Mountain - from Songs Of Sonoma Mountain
The Dove, The Shrew & The Raccoon - from Desert Pavement
The 100 Mile View from Virginia City - from Songs Of Sonoma Mountain
Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie - from The Lone Prairie Sessions, video with crankie by Katherine Fahey
The Lonely Stallion - from Desert Pavement
The Stones - from Songs Of Sonoma Mountain
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