Halley Elwell

Halley Elwell is a songwriter whose music "sparks nostalgia, but is also notable for her fantastic voice and well-crafted lyric" (Aimsel Ponti, Portland Press Herald). She has earned accolades from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, ASCAP, and the Nashville Songwriters Association. Following the success of her 2021 EP, The Last of What I Know, she is teaming up again with producer/drummer Dave Brophy for her next project, Spontaneous Mutation, which was recently awarded a New Music Creator Fund Grant by New Music USA.

Spontaneous Mutation is a collection of songs that aims to reclaim the narratives around facial difference. Written from personal experiences, the project spans jazz, rock, and folk genres with the lens of spontaneous mutation, a repurposed medical term used to describe Elwell's medical condition, neurofibromatosis.The album will be accompanied by a 6-episode podcast taking a deeper dive into the themes and personal stories that inspired the project.