Belle-Skinner is a dark nostalgic singer-songwriter based in New York. With a hauntingly beautiful, lilting soprano and innate sense of melody she crafts tales of songbirds, sirens and desert nomads - nuanced and layered stories which bridge the gap between past and present. Though her influences cover a broad range of genres - from French chansons and Russian folk to contemporary alt-pop and rock - her voice often draws comparisons to the likes of Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, Mary Hopkin, and early St. Vincent. Opening for acts such as Mitski, Cautious Clay, Haley Reinhart, China Forbes (Pink Martini), Joan Osborne, Marco Benevento, Ondara, Rhett Miller (Old 97s), Sean Rowe, and Saint Saviour (Groove Armada), she has performed at venerated venues like The Linda Performing Arts Center, Proctor's Theatre, The Bluebird Cafe, Bowery Ballroom, Le Poisson Rouge NYC, Caffe Lena, and the Roundhouse Theatre in London. She has been a finalist in numerous prestigious songwriting competitions including Telluride Troubadour Competition, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Contest, The Great American Songwriting Contest - and most recently the 2022 and 2023 Grassy Hill New Folk Competition at Kerrville Folk Festival, as well as winner of the 2022 Tarrytown Music Hall Rock the Hall Competition. She has released 7 records since 2015: Operator, We Shut Our Eyes, Violets, The Early Covers, There Grows A Tree In Paradise, Love Spell - including most recently a live Joni Mitchell tribute album (now streaming everywhere). Her songs have been featured on several Spotify editorial playlists, and have garnered over 1 million streams worldwide.
I'll be making a cameo tomorrow (11/5 Wed) night at @nyswritersinstitute marathon reading of William Kennedy's book "Legs" (a huge help in writing my song "Legs Diamond"). The reading goes til around 8 (you can sign up to read if there are still spots open) and I'll be closing it with my song about the notorious gangster 🖤
About the event:
The public is invited to raise a glass to William Kennedy, beloved New York State Writers Institute founder and 97-year-old Albany storyteller, at a marathon reading of Legs (1975), the novel that launched his “Albany Cycle.”
Legs tells the story of Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond, Albany bootlegger, Irish-American celebrity, self-made man, and one of the most notorious gangsters of the 1920s and ‘30s.
Legs and his paramour, Marion ‘Kiki’ Roberts, on their wanderings through the gritty, glamorous, and very dangerous world of Prohibition-era Albany.
This is the third marathon reading of Kennedy novels the Writers’ Institute has organized. The readings began with Ironweed in 2023 and Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game in 2024.
Cosponsor @albanydistillingco maker of Ironweed whiskey, is located in the North Albany neighborhood where William Kennedy grew up, and where some of the fictional scenes in the Great Depression-era narrative take place.
Donations will be collected at the door to benefit the food pantry and free meal outreach at Sacred Heart Church, 33 Walter St. in Albany, which was Kennedy’s childhood parish.
This free event is open to the public and will take place from Noon until to 8 pm, Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at Albany Distilling Co. Bar and Bottle Shop, 75 Livingston Avenue in Albany.
✨Enjoy the last days of summery weather with these concerts✨:
Th. 9/11 @ 7pm - Mabee Farm is such a cool venue, hosted in an 18th century timber frame barn right along the river. We actually considered getting married here, it's so pretty! 😁 and I'm happy to come back this season and play with Everest Rising again!
Sat. 9/13 @ 1pm - Caroga Lake is a beautiful spot, and I'm also happy to return this year, this time for their annual Woofstock fundraiser supporting Fulton County SPCA and @carogaartscollective
. Cleenstreet, Air Traffic Control, and @alex.torres.orq.80 are part of this year's lineup!
Playing this songwriter round Wed 8/27 at #caffelena in Saratoga. Benjamin Zoleski, Ryan Leddick, and host Erin Harkes will be playing with me sharing stories and songs 😁 tix below:
I'm so excited about these new little birdie pins! They came out so cute and colorful - I named the colors after birds! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤💛💙💚 They're now up on my bandcamp site (link below) & will also make their debut at my HUDSON NY show this Saturday 3/29! (w/ @lou_wee_za at @parktheaterhudson )
https://belle-skinner.bandcamp.com/merch
Designed by yours truly, these Little Bird 1" hard-enamel pins come in 4 new colors, with gold lettering: Cardinal (red), Canary (yellow), Bluebird (blue), and Parrot (green).
25 in each color (limited edition colors - when they're gone, they're gone! 😉)
Thank you @wizardpins for making the vision a reality!🙏❤️
Daniel Kleederman • Belle-Skinner • Juno Roome
This is a 21+ event (Physical ID required. Photos of ID + NYC City ID are not accepted)
✨NYC Show Announce!✨
@junoroome and I have been trying to book a show together for years, and I'm so stoked we get to finally make it happen - and that the amazing @daniel_kleederman will be joining us, too!
Tix on sale now (in bio link + @union_pool website)
Can't wait to play on this beautiful farm (the oldest in the Mohawk valley, dating from 1707) in their 18th century Dutch barn. Hosts Everest Rising will open too - tix/info below ❤️
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