Newly off supporting dates with Mavis Staples, Emily King, Trombone Shorty, and Tank & the Bangas, musician, songwriter, poet, and producer Kimaya Diggs triumphantly returns with her expansive new collection, Green, out October 2. Following her 2023 album Quincy, and 2024’s singles “I’m Sad Again” and “Everything Is Not Lost”, Green showcases twelve tracks of glittering, genre-bending indie pop, carried by Diggs’ powerful, honeyed vocals, and honest, attentive lyricism.
Kimaya Diggs’ songwriting serves as both a portal of emotional processing, and a roadmap toward a future self; a not-yet-envisioned world and way of being. As Diggs began to write the songs that would become Green throughout the fall of 2024 and early 2025, she found herself encircled in a matrix of three central questions:
What makes a place feel like home? The people, or the land?
What would happen if I had the chance to be reincarnated? Is one’s spirit destined to make the same type of mistakes forever, or is there a part of you that learns?
What does it take to be good enough? How good do I have to be in order to not have bad things happen to me?
While each question found its way into the crevices and billowing halls of the songs across Green, it’s the final question that seemed to immediately reveal something more nuanced to Diggs, something worth excavating. “You can't be good enough to deserve to be treated kindly by the universe,” she came to realize. “But you can figure out how to be made of something tougher.” And this is where we find Kimaya Diggs on Green: an artist at her toughest and most confident; unafraid, verdant, alive.
Green marks a significant turning point in Diggs’ career. After finding herself desiring a change from previous recording processes, Diggs was eager to do something different with this album. Mainly, she knew she wanted to be the lead producer, and direct the recording and engineering process as it aligned with her vision, a leadership role she hadn’t previously taken on. “It was an exercise in being more assertive and really trusting my vision.” Knowing she wanted an album anchored by groove and a natural-sounding feel, this process of trust began with her confidently asserting, “I'm going to start by finding the perfect drummer. And wherever that person is, I will go to them and I will figure it out.” It ended up being in Nashville with drummer Erick Slick of Dr. Dog. Together with a group of trusted musicians, basic tracking for the album was completed in three days in May of 2025 at Nashville’s Barnfire Creative Studios. Jacob Rosazza and Ben Sanders provided additional production, with mixing helmed by Scott Hundley. This year also marks seven years since Diggs underwent major vocal surgery. Now finally fully healed after a long process of recovery, this is the first album Diggs felt she was able to use her voice to its fullest potential, a power that is certainly felt across the albums twelve buoyant tracks.
The Get Down is the new side/solo project of musician Gavin Key. After years growing up in the Keene music scene and cutting his teeth in other bands, Key formed this group as an excuse to play all his favorite tunes he'd never gotten to play live before. From Clapton to Springsteen to Bowie and everything in between, Gavin Key and the Get Down combines funk, blues, R&B and pop rock for an electrifying performance you won't want to miss. The core group of Key, bassist Christian Raabe, vocalist Jess Lamoureux, guitarist/singer Julia Baer, and drummer Dave Painchaud are joined by a rotating crew of keyboardists and horns!
Doors are at 7pm and music will begin at 730! Seating is first come first served!
Thanks to support from Savings Bank of Walpole, this show has an Access For All option which lets you name your price (you can't buy multiples of this option at the same time, so to buy more than one ticket, it is necessary to do each additional ticket in a different transaction).