Heels To The Hardwood is a soulful Americana rock band that commands the vocal stage with powerhouse vocals, expressive and honest lyrics, intricate guitar riffs, smooth notes of keyboard and pedal steel, and pulsating back beats that will keep your toes tapping and your feet stomping. 

Singer-songwriter Francesca Brown is a California native, with midwestern roots.  Her sound is a cosmic mash-up that lies somewhere between Emmylou Harris and Loretta Lynn.  

Brown’s early life wasn’t always easy moving between southern California and Illinois.  Much of her youth was spent with her single mother and three other siblings in rural Illinois. Ballet and singing were her outlets early on.  

On weekends she would attend local dive bars with her mother and sing 90’s pop hits via karaoke.  Home life became a serious challenge, watching her mother struggle with abusive relationships and money . From her teen years on, in many ways Francesca raised herself.  Work ethic was important and she jumped in at an early age and kept on with this cycle never slowing down.  After a short stint in NYC, Brown made her way back west.  She settled in Los Angeles where she worked several waitressing jobs and even did some work as a photo double in film and tv.  During her early twenties she found herself regularly escaping the hustle and bustle of the city.   She spent much of her time in Topanga Canyon and nearby beaches indulging Jack Kerouac and listening to folk music. It was during this time when she began writing music, and knew she had found her calling.  

Brenna Bruce is a singer-songwriter based in Seattle. Following a path of curiosity and introspection, her music moves with a quiet power, balancing sharpness and tenderness with an understood patience.

Bruce pulls from the tradition of vulnerable folk through delicate and crystalline vocal prowess akin to Courtney Marie Andrews and Emmylou Harris, with the simplicity and focus of Gillian Welch’s storytelling. On her forthcoming debut EP Honest Bloom, Bruce weaves ambling stories of the heart with peripheral landscapes passing through the deserts, rivers, and mountains of her past in the southwest, and present in the Pacific Northwest.

Honest Bloom inhabits spaces of liminality and cyclical growth, spinning themes of connection, belonging, and becoming, with lilting pedal steel and string arrangements, tethered by pulsing percussion and the intentional delivery of Brenna’s vocal harmonies carrying each sentiment to fruition. Honest Bloom is a capsule of time, reckoning with the ever-unfolding path of being and learning life’s lessons, and Brenna Bruce is an artist burgeoning with timeless truths.