Rick Holmstrom Band w/ Kelly Hogan & Saundra Williams

Kelly Hogan, Equally comfortable with indie rock, traditional country, jazz, and pop – singer Kelly Hogan has explored all those directions and more in her four-decade career as a solo artist and backing vocalist for acts such as Neko Case, The Decemberists, Jakob Dylan, Andrew Bird, and Alejandro Escovedo. She’s also an in-demand session musician, adding vocals to recordings for Drive-By Truckers, The New Pornographers, The Mekons, Amy Ray, Tortoise, Silkworm, The Minus 5 and many more. Hogan first made a name for herself in her hometown of Atlanta in the early 1990s with her critic’s darling indie band The Jody Grind (and as a guitarist/back-up screamer with bummer-punks, The Rock*A*Teens) before relocating to Chicago in 1997. She has released four critically-acclaimed solo albums, including 2012’s I Like to Keep Myself in Pain – featuring songs written specifically for Hogan by a star-studded roster of friends including Robyn Hitchcock, The Handsome Family, and Vic Chesnutt – and recorded with a backing band of legendary musicians including Booker T. Jones and hall-of-fame funky drummer James Gadson. These days you can find Hogan (rarely at home in her beloved rural Wisconsin) living out of a well-worn suitcase as a grateful member of gospel soul icon Mavis Staples’ band.

Saundra Williams is a singer/songwriter born in Harlem, New York and raised in The Bronx, NY. She began singing and performing at a very young age, when her parents, noticing her talent early on, took her out for auditions for commercials, voice over work and signed her and her sister up for lessons at the famous Alvin Ailey School for dance. From then on, Saundra’s career path was set in motion. To date, Saundra has performed, written and appeared in and for various musical endeavors and high profile professional settings. Her credits include work for recording sessions, international music releases, tv appearances, film and most prominently, live shows with Sharon Jones, the Dap Kings, Victor Wooten, Warren Haynes and Mavis Staples.