“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”
So said Mikaela Davis, the 26-year-old harpist, writer, performer, and band leader, about her music and her debut album, Delivery, songs from which she will perform at the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 12 at 8pm.
Her music draws from folk-rock, seventies and eighties pop experimentation, and funk. Born in Rochester, New York, she studied the harp in college, but halfway through, decided the traditional harpist’s path was not for her.
She longed to perform her own compositions rather than those written by others for an orchestral setting. While in college she had already begun touring her own songs, and after graduation, moved to Brooklyn. She later returned to Rochester, where she was embraced by the local artistic community, which led to the recording of the album.
"These songs kind of wonder what I should be doing," she says of her music. "It’s me trying to get myself back to why I started writing in the first place. Writing made me feel better and safe when the world around me was falling apart.”
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