Super excited to announce new guest, Jessica Smucker, to The Story!

Jessica Smucker believes that the best way to change the world is to channel our pain into connection. Her songs have a way of reaching deeply into people’s souls and inviting the kind of reflection that feels both reassuring and unsettling. Wrapped in catchy melodies, her lyrics appear simple and relatable on the surface, but each listen will uncover more hidden pockets of nuance. She’s the kind of writer and performer who can lull a noisy room into a hush with a single line.

Jessica is based in Lancaster, PA, very near the tiny rural town of Bird-in-Hand where she grew up.

She has toured nationwide, opened for national acts like Cheryl Wheeler and Bill Staines, and shared billing with Heather Maloney, Meghan Trainor, Gangstagrass, and the Stray Birds. She has won or placed in numerous national songwriting contests including SolarFest’s Singer/Songwriter Showcase Competition, the Connecticut Folk Festival Song Competition, and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Her discography spans from 2008-2020 and includes two EPs and three full-length albums, and a handful of singles released in 2021-22. She hopes to release a fourth album sometime next year.

In her life beyond music, Jessica is a published poet and essayist, a social justice warrior, freakishly good at Scrabble, and mother to two of the smartest people she’s ever met in real life.

You can find Jessica and her projects here:

Website: https://jessicasmucker.com/

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