Halley Neal | Presented by The Stomping Ground in Manchester, CT | The 860 Life

Halley Neal | Presented by The Stomping Ground in Manchester, CT | The 860 Life

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Halley Neal is an award winning folk singer and songwriter whose live shows center on themes of positivity and peace.

The formerly-Nashville-currently-Boston-based artist is often joined by her backing band of upright bass and fiddle.

Halley’s lyrical folk-Americana songs are met with her soaring vocals and an upbeat bluegrass inspired instrumentation.

Halley has gained national recognition from touring across the country to listeningrooms and folk music venues and from her performances at festivals, notably the Kerrville Folk Fest, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

Halley released her most recent solo record “Beautiful and Blue” to critical acclaim on September 30th, 2022.

Her live shows are remembered for her effortless vocals and honest lyrics.

Graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2019, Halley was chosen from the graduates to perform a song at Berklee’s Commencement Concert at Agganis Arena.

The concert honored the 2019 Berklee honorary doctorates, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, and Alex Lacamoire, who all attended the show.

In her final semester at Berklee, Halley collaborated with artist Plot Twist and her former band Rose & Kennedy to write and release a single called “Lover” which shortly after gained notable traction on Tik Tok.

Since it’s release in July 2019, the song has gained over 27 million streams and has seen global acclaim with covers and Tik Toks of the song posted by people from all over the world.

Shortly after graduating from college, Halley moved to Nashville, TN where in her first few months, she was a chosen finalist for “Nashville Rising Song,” a premiere songwriting competition.

In Nashville, Halley also hosted house concerts in her backyard bringing together a communityof independent musicians.

In 2020, Halley became an official Guild Guitars artist, and performed a set of original music at the 2021 NAMM Show withGuild.

She is also one of the first artists to participate in Guild’s “Factory Sessions” YouTube series, where she performed an original set of songs live in the Guild Guitars factory in Oxnard California.

Currently, Halley tours nationally to house concert and listening room venues.

Halley’s debut self-titled record was released on June 4th, 2021.

Halley Neal blends sounds that Neal picked up throughout her time studying at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, as well as in the city she now calls home,Nashville, TN.

The record includes a collaboration with art…

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