Jes Raymond is a singer, songwriter, and composer based in Wilder, Vermont. She spent a decade touring nationally out of the Pacific Northwest with The Blackberry Bushes Stringband, playing festivals, theaters, and listening rooms across the country, and released 5 albums with that band. When she moved across the country from Seattle to her hometown in Vermont, The Blackberry Bushes shape-shifted into BEECHARMER, her current Americana project with her husband and longtime bandmate Jakob Breitbach on fiddle. They have distilled those 10 years on the road into a sound that is equal parts summer jubilee and windy mountaintop.

A moving and skillful singer, flatpicking guitarist, and melodic clawhammer banjoist, her songs seek the ecstatic in the ordinary and the mystic in the day-to-day. She draws from the deep well of American Roots music, then mixes it with a sincere pursuit of honesty, illumination, and attention.

“I want my songs to help us connect with the deeper stories. I want my songs to feel like sleeping under the stars, dancing, kissing, and getting a second chance. I want to name the ache. I want to give people a reason to sing and a reason to move. I want you to know without a doubt that you have a comrade in wonder, that magic believes in you, and you are easy to love. ”