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Jetty Rae
Jetty Rae is a singer-songwriter based out of Northern Michigan. Jetty has been singing, touring, and recording for the since 2005. While living in Hawaii for two years, she became inspired and picked up the guitar and made many friends, which led to her first regular gigs at a place called Dirty Jakes. Jetty would play facing the ocean, as she recalls one time a man was so at peace while she was playing he fell asleep in his bar stool. While in Hawaii, she also joined the rap and hip-hop group Soul Chronicle, and toured the Hawaiian Islands, as well as mainland China with them. Her short stint with Soul Chronicle opened up other doors for her to record with other hip-hop groups such as The S.O.G. crew. With her first experiences in the studio under her belt, Jetty left the Independent hip-hop world for a more organic, folk sound.
She began writing her first album Blackberries (LP 2007) and borrowed the money from her Grandma to get her first album recorded, mastered, and replicated. Her first album opened the door for Jetty to tour Northern Michigan at numerous festivals, and venues: Traverse City Film Festival, The Cherry Festival, and Blissfest to name a few.
Shortly thereafter she has been honing her craft something she says she wasnt naturally talented with, in numerous concert dates ranging from Fort Worth, to LA, Chicago and Brooklyn.
In November 2009 she released Nobody, an EP, which she recorded in Nashville. Slowly but surely Jetty Raes voice has begun to make ripples in this congested but exciting independent music world. She won the JetBlue T5 contest through ourstage.com, in which she was sent to New York and performed at JetBlues new Terminal 5 at JFK.
Jetty has also been noticed by MTV.coms Needle In The Haystack. Her song I Love You, was selected for a free download of the week. They also featured an interview with her in their blog.
Jetty has performed in The Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York, The Grand Traverse Opera House, DTE Energy Center, Big Ticket Festival, and countless other venues.
She has opened for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jay Buchanan, Juana Molina, Joey + Rory and many more. She even shared the stage with Sarah McLachlan and Miranda Lambert at Lilith Fair in Detroit.
Jettys highly anticipated album Drowning in Grain was produced and recorded entirely by Jetty. She was inspired to take audio recording classes after becoming dissatisfied with her lack of control in her previous projects. She was inspired by the do-it yourself-ness by the likes of Imogen Heap, and Aimee Mann.
Jettys 5th album, Climbing Clouds, mixes stories of sorrow and triumph into a 6 song EP. Her Christmas album More than December mixes some traditional favorites with two original tracks, while her latest project, Pen Pals is a collaboration inspired by the end of the summer season.
Her influences include Jennifer Knapp, Brandi Carlile, Cat Power, Ray Lamontagne, Lauryn Hill, Patty Griffin, and many more. If youve been to a Jetty Rae show you can agree to the fact that song-writing is her true forte, but how she marries her words to her voice and melodies is a thing to see. She has power, and restraint in her voicethe ability to pull at your heart strings delicately like in Blink of an Eye. On the other hand she also possesses the power to awaken a passion, a fight in all of us when she really belts it. Her hopes are to eventually start a label for independent artists like herselfthat will empower artists to start where they are. She is hoping to give them the tools, studio time, experience, and resources they need to succeed in making great art.
Her aims are not to become a millionaire, or well-known, but rather to evoke a changethat is much more powerful than herself. It doesnt matter if I am playing for ten people, or a thousand peopleits that one person who is touched, that one person who doesnt feel alone anymore. Thats the power of music..and thats why I do this.
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LocationTrinity House Theatre (View)
38840 West Six Mile
Livonia, MI 48152
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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