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Jess Martin

Singer Songwriter, Performer

Music as Story. Music as Gathering. Music as Place.

Four 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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Echoes of Nature

Music & poetry rooted in place.

A collaborative performance project with poet and nature essayist Kim Hoff, blending original music and poetry to invite stewardship, accessibility, and belonging in natural spaces across Hampshire County and beyond.

→ Explore the project | → 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.

→ Upcoming sessions: Thursday, Jan 8 2025 @ 7 pm | → Read the story

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STREAMING PLATFORMS

PANDORA

SPOTIFY

APPLE MUSIC

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.

jessmartin.playsguitar@gmail.com

Based in Western Massachusetts

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