Music as Story. Music as Gathering. Music as Place.
Five interconnected projects exploring voice, landscape, queerness, and myth.
Exquisite
Songs as artifacts. Albums as chapters.
Jess Martin’s music explores the cycles of transformation, rupture, and return. Their latest venture, Exquisite Project, is a four-song collaborative experiment inspired by the "exquisite corpse" exercise.
In this series, Jess’s original songs were handed to four Western Massachusetts-based producers—Joe “Jopey” Fitzpatrick, Erin McKeown, Nate Mondschein, and James Robinson—who were invited to not just polish the tracks, but to instinctively redirect and reshape them.
→ Listen | → Bloom Local Feature
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Literary monsters. Queer mythmaking. Visual music.
Shadow, Sound, Spectacle blends original music, shadow puppetry, video, and sound effects to create theatrical punk rock storytelling for adults and teens. Co-created with Amy J. West and Abby Hanna, this project transforms classic and contemporary texts into immersive, touring experiences.
→ Learn more | → Media Kit
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Song Share Sessions
For Nonbinary, Trans & Women singer songwriters
A monthly community gathering for nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters, started at Drawing Board Brewing and now hosted at Mill River Music in Northampton, MA.
→ Second Thursdays of the month @ 7 pm | → Read the story
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Now introducing
The Honkytonk QueerTones
The Honkytonk QueerTones are a Western MA musical troupe serving up classic country with a subversive, queer twist. Now performing as a dynamic quartet—featuring Jess Martin, Emmett Troxel, Kim Hoff, and Tammy Bringaze—they take traditional country tropes and joyfully flip them on their head. Expect sharp wit, great harmony, and plenty of twang!
Coming Up Next
ABOUT JESS MARTIN
Jess Martin is a queer singer-songwriter and performance artist whose work lives at the intersection of music, theater, and community. From intimate solo sets to immersive collaborations, Jess creates story-driven performances rooted in myth, place, and queer possibility.