Jenny Reynolds Album Release Show with Holly Frost

Jenny Reynolds lives her life following her mission statement of “Work hard, be nice, keep moving.” Her fifth record, "Willow & Stone" is a follow up to 2020's critically acclaimed “Any Kind of Angel,” which features Jaimee Harris, BettySoo, Warren Hood, Oliver Steck, and Scrappy Jud Newcomb. The native New Englander has worked with Boston-based artists Duke Levine, Kevin Barry and Catie Curtis. She has played the Old Settlers Music Festival, the Kerrville Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Club Passim, the Cactus Cafe, and the Bluebird Cafe, and has worked with Grammy winner Ruthie Foster and Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ian McLagan. She was an Official Showcase Artist at SXSW 2008 and 2018, and was named “Best New Local Act” in the Austin Chronicle’s 2005 Critics Poll. Her music has been on major network television and independent film, including ABC’s “All My Children.” She is also the producer of Austin's “Williams Nite: A Tribute to the Music of Hank and Lucinda Williams,” a “kinda annual” show that will happen for the fourteenth time in 2026. Proceeds benefit the SIMS Foundation. Holly Frost is less a revivalist than a careful smuggler of time, slipping songs across decades and setting them gently alight in the present. With a voice that moves between crystalline clarity and a low, smoky hush, she draws from the elegance of mid-century bandstands, the wit of Tin Pan Alley, and the shadowed corners of old cabaret. The result is not imitation, but inhabitation: music that feels lived-in, dimensional, and entirely her own. A California native who found her footing in Austin's music scene in 2009, Frost has spent years refining a performance style that blurs the line between stage and story. Her world carries the suggestion of a broadcast that never signed off; a late-night program flickering somewhere between 1947 and now. Within it, she appears with guitar in hand, poised but unguarded, inviting you into the moment. Her instrument, a cherry-red hollow-body, serves as both companion and co-conspirator. The repertoire moves easily from early jazz and pre-war swing to mid-century standards, alongside original compositions that feel as though they've simply been waiting to be rediscovered. Classically-trained but street-seasoned, she navigates sultry blues, luminous ballads, and flashes of sly humor with ease. Comparisons might gesture toward Doris Day or Blossom Dearie, with a touch of Jeff Buckley's vocal versatility or Tom Waits' shadow; still, Frost resists easy placement. She is polished without preciousness, knowledgeable without distance, and while there is warmth here, certainly, there is also a sense of something _else_ stirring just beneath the surface. Her performances feel like private encounters: a candlelit room, a half-remembered melody, an unpunched transport ticket. Whether in a listening room, a garden gathering, or a dim corner of a bustling venue, she creates an atmosphere that draws you in. For those drawn to music as both refuge and revelation, Holly Frost offers a singular experience: rooted in tradition, shaped by curiosity, and carried forward with a subtle, unmistakable spark.