December 19
Local Honey is the solo effort of Kelly Brown, former lead vocalist for the band franklyScarlet. Frustrated with the music business and domination of corporate radio, Kelly draws inspiration from her own experience in an unsigned band.
A visual artist, writer, and musician, Kelly follows her instinct to marry image and sound in an effort to create a new vehicle for her music. The result is Local Honey, an art and entertainment entity that is both a website gallery and a musical group that performs multi-media shows. As the curator and producer of such shows it is the intention of Kelly, a.k.a. "Honey," to create alternative venues that do not impose the boundaries and restrictions often placed on artists by labels, galeries, publishers, and other corporate entities.
Kelly has won awards from Billboard and Musician magazines, an has been honored with guest invitations to the Kerrville Folk Festival and Telluride New Folk Festival. She can be heard as the voice on CNN and various television and radio commercials. she has performed with Bonnie Raitt and Sarah McLachlan and has opened for David Bowie, Joan Osborne, Lisa Loeb, Earth, Wind and Fire and others. Her music has been played on NBC's Dateline as well as the soundtracks for various indie films.
Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Thorne, Annie Lennox, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, The Carpenters, Radio Head, Deathcab For Cutie.
