Songwriters are natural storytellers, and there is an audience waiting to hear yours.
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Tyler Donavan
Tyler Donavan is a recording artist and producer originally from Stafford, VA but who is now based out of Virginia Beach. After undergoing an emergency spinal stenosis surgery in 2…
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Lena Klett
Lena Klett is a singer/songwriter originally from New Jersey. She moved to Virginia in 2008 for school, and has been living and playing music in Hampton Roads ever since. In this e…
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Dariel Clark
Dariel Clark is a hip/hop artist from Virginia Beach. His music blends the surf rock influences of his hometown to create a unique style of guitar driven rap. He dropped his debut,…
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Anthony Gragnano of The Lazy Dangers
Anthony Gragnano is the songwriter and front man for the band The Lazy Dangers. They are a six-piece folk/rock band based out of Virginia Beach. In 2018, they released the full len…
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Narissa Bond
Narissa Bond has been crafting intricate, lyrical narratives ever since her first album came out in 1996. Combined with her smooth, soulful voice, she weaves together stories of he…
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Dan Villanueva of Astropop3
Dan Villanueva is the lead singer and songwriter for the band Astropop3, an indie-pop group that formed out of Virginia Beach in the mid 90s. On this episode, he talked about the s…
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Koren Grace
Norfolk singer/songwriter and musician Koren Grace has self-released a pair of singles and an EP called “The I.D. & the Ego.” On this episode, she discussed how the 2016 election i…
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Bennett Wales of Bennett Wales & the Relief
Bennett Wales is a songwriter, guitarist and frontman for the band, Bennett Wales & the Relief, a blues/rock powerhouse hailing from Virginia Beach. Their debut album, "Flood Witho…
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Jessica Scheck
Jessica Scheck is a Norfolk singer/songwriter and former singer/ukulele player for the indie folk band The Native Pines. She also writes and sings on the mandolin and was a finalis…
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Neal Friedman of Super Doppler
Neal Friedman is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for the band Super Doppler. The members of Super Doppler formed out of Norfolk where most of the members went to Maur…
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Olivia Dyer
Olivia Dyer is a songwriter, worship leader and visual artist living in Norfolk, VA. She has released two full length albums, “The Threshing Floor” in 2011 and “Time & Age” in 2017…
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Will Overman
Virginia Beach songwriter and current Charlottesville musician Will Overman has been very active in his young music career so far. He has released two full albums as both a solo ar…
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Ben Phelps and Michael Adams of The Ben Phelps Project
The Ben Phelps Project are a Hampton Roads band that have been playing regionally since 2004. They have released two albums, "Vision and Sound" in 2006, and their new 2019 release…
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Jarvis Griffin and Nate Levine of Paper Aliens
On this episode of Lyrical I talked with Jarvis Griffin and Nate Levine of the Hampton Roads band Paper Aliens. Jarvis was the runner-up in the first Lyrical Singer Songwriter Cont…
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Kate Stedelbauer
Kate Stedelbauer was born in Virginia, but a huge part of her hails from Beale Street in Memphis. That of course is her signature red guitar, bought used from someone who used to p…
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Nan Macmillan
Nan Macmillan appeared on our radar after she entered the first annual Lyrical Singer Songwriter Contest. She went on to win the contest after impressing the judges with her powerf…
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Nate Sacks of The Lifehacks
Nate Sacks works hard - he fronts his own band The LifeHacks, lends his talents to the band Galaxy Dynamite, performs as a solo artist, teaches music at The School of Rock in Virgi…
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Jamie and Jeena Anderson of Fox and the Bear
Jamie and Jeena Anderson's lyrics and musical sensibilities are steeped in the folk music traditions and songwriting of the 60's and 70's. Although they are relatively young songwr…
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Michael Ford Jr and Ben Ford of Airpark
Songwriting brothers Michael and Ben are nearly "Irish twins" - a term I learned during the latest episode of Lyrical. And, as they told me, being brothers gives them an advantage…
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John Mark Nelson
Songwriter John Mark Nelson hails from St. Paul, Minnesota, but his ties to Virginia run deep. His story is a testament to the power of songwriting and music to bring people togeth…