Kelly Hunt

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courtesy Kelly Hunt

A person in a field with an acoustic guitar.

Kelly Hunt

Kansas City native Kelly Hunt’s unique clawhammer style on tenor banjo and unusual (for folk) operatic voice garnered her a nomination for the International Folk Music Awards 2019 Album of the Year. Don’t let the opera reference distract you. She gets very high up in the mountains with her songwriting and singing. She’s a storyteller, too. Characters come alive in her music, most of whom are from distant times with hard struggles.