Creating community around sharing stories through music and art.
We strive to support independent artists by providing them with practical tools to grow while staying true to themselves and still being able to focus on that creative spark and what makes them unique and authentic.
Bloom House Productions
INTRODUCING:
EAST BOONE LISTENING ROOM
The mission of East Boone Listening Room is to To foster community around music & songwriting and create an intimate space where stories can be shared.
Follow @eastboonelisteningroom on Instagram for the most up to date information on artists and concert dates.
Collaborators:
Bloom House Productions, Boone Studio Collective, Enowen Photography [Sarah Deshields], Sydney Gail Photography [Sydney Everett], Kevin Deshields, Will Willis, Simon Everett
Bloom House for Artists Offers Marketing and PR Strategies for Up and Coming Artists and Musicians
As an artist myself, I’ve been through the process of writing, creating, recording, marketing a launching new projects and done it ALL the hard way.
Let us save you a step, cut through all the bullshit and focus on what matters most so that you can ENJOY the business and creative life you’ve made for yourself.
We listen and dive deep into who you are as an artist and then offer production and marketing solutions for website copy, bios, social media and press releases.
All of this information is presented in a practical way meeting YOU where YOU are in your business and creative journey.
With our Up and Coming Musician & Artist Program, we’ll provide easy to use templates for contracts, tour schedule, pricing guides and create curated spaces for you to keep all of the information about your business in one place. We also offer easily editable canva graphic templates and can line up production elements such as audio recording, photo shoots and creative video content.
The “Up In Coming Musician & Artist Program” includes:
5 hours of one on one consultation time
Up to 10 hours spent curating your systems, visual elements and documents.
From there, we can create a custom experience with varying levels of support
Sydney Gail Photography
Will Willis & Friends
Folk Rock | Blues | Funk | Alt Country
Will Willis & Friends music can loosely be described as Folk Rock with elements of Blues and Funk. He started releasing music in 2004 and has received critical acclaim for his singles ”Honey Bee” and "Mercy”.
He’s been a veteran in the Southeastern Americana scene for years and in the wake of “Digital Movement” is looking forward to exploring new venues and experiences as well as broadening the horizons of “Will Willis and Friends” already diverse tour schedule.
Music came to Will later in life but once discovered, he found the key to unlocking what he wanted to say about his lived experiences and about himself.
Willis often writes his own stories through the lens of characters. Familiar themes of addiction, relationships and the search for meaning echo through his music but more powerfully and ever pervasive is the theme of hope.
He catalogs his lived experiences as “important” and “necessary” rather than “good” or “bad” and interprets it all together through the lens of “climbing the mountain of life”. Realism, but through rose colored glasses.
Will has a holistic approach to creating and performing music. He thrives on the collaborative energy of a band made up of musicians who are all virtuosos in their own right.
Handlebar Betty
Appalachian Folk Grass
Handlebar Betty is a genre bending, harmony driven, Appalachian folk-grass band born out of Boone, North Carolina. Swapping instruments and lead vocals from song to song; Handlebar Betty creates a unique sound that is dark, driving, and earthy; bringing forth a genuine approach to acoustic/electric music.
Enowen Photography
Songwriter | Singer | Roots | Country
Bryson Evans
Bryson Evans is a rootsy singer-songwriter from Aberdeen, Washington who has built a life from the ground up on labor work and song. Born to a working class family in an ever-changing town of timber and toil, Bryson was always interested in the folklore of the land.
His music is a unique blend of his many influences - Hank Williams, Tom Waits, and The Allman Brothers, to name a few. His songs are about real life- hard work, lessons learned, love, loss, pain, good times and bad. With roots in Classic Country and Americana, you can’t find someone more dedicated to creating music that honors those who came before him as well as those who play by his side.
Bryson intermixes happy tunes with sad truths in a way that could bring you to your feet while simultaneously bringing you to tears. He is fueled by the passion to share his stories, traveling and singing at every opportunity, most recently solo and acoustic. Bryson has three original albums recorded: Some Days I’m Flyin’ (2016) and One-Sided Coin (2018) & Part-Time Vigilante (2022)
Enowen Photography
Meris Gantt
Indie Folk | Americana | Singer |Songwriter
Meris Gantt is an Indie Folk singer and songwriter based out of the North Carolina mountains. She started performing at an early age and continued on through college to study Music Theatre and Opera bringing out a kaleidoscope of colors and styles to her voice and a seamless flow through varying genres within her songwriting.
Meris moved to Boone, North Carolina in 2005 and began exploring her passion for songwriting. She co-founded the Boone based band Mountain Radio in 2011, eventually melding into her current project Handlebar Betty. They released their independently produced EP "Garage Apartment" in 2020.
As the years have passed, Gantt has become a symbol of the power of music to transform, uplift, and heal. Her songs tell tales of love, loss, and redemption that speak to the universal truths that bind us all together. With "Forced Revival," Gantt continues to guide her fans down the winding roads of their own lives, sparking a flame of hope, inspiration, and wonder that refuses to die.
More recently, she joined forces with musician/singer/songwriter Devin Lacey. Their styles range from bluegrass and americana to soul and blues, with just a touch of rock and roll. Meris’s songwriting is honest and to the point; exploring life's journeys with longing, regret and the silver linings that lie in between.