Celebrate Music Series


Brookline’s Celebrate Music concert series is back with Brookline native, Izzy Heltai and Boston-based indie-folk rock artist Kaiti Jones. Rumor has it that local food trucks will be there serving up some good Brookline eats! Join us at Amory Park for an amazing evening of music and community.

Location: Amory Park, Brookline

Date and time: Saturday 8/21/21, 6pm

Kaiti Jones

Boston-based indie-folk/rock artist Kaiti Jones writes songs to make sense of the world, as potent storytellers do. Her songs are a garden that she tends to, rooted in existential angst or failed romances that grow into retrospective anecdotes, sometimes evolving over months or even years. Jones’ sophomore album Tossed, released March 2021, garnered acclaim from NPR Music, American Songwriter, KUTX, WBUR The Artery, Front Row Boston, Paste, and Glide Magazine, among others. Critics have likened her music to that of Julia Jacklin, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Van Etton, and Tom Petty, highlighting Jones’ natural penchant for honest, poetic lyricism set to a backdrop with a warm, bright, inviting blend of indie folk and rock. American Songwriter coined Tossed “strikingly sensible and occasionally humorous…a natural, but well-polished soundscape.” 

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Izzy Heltai

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“At a time when a conversation can become a sociopolitical battle, Heltai’s introspective and thought-out songs are a breath of fresh air.”

— NPR

“[Izzy] strikes with accurate emotional imagery vocally while his guitar playing takes you to another headspace all together. He certainly knows his way around your heartstrings.”

— No Depression

“While the beauty and pang that comes with the compartmentalized nature of life is immortalized in Heltai’s whole album, titular track ‘Father’ feels particularly noteworthy in that regard.”

— Atwood Magazine

“…a precocious songwriter…heartfelt Americana…“The Stranger You’ve Become” is a perfect encapsulation of the heartfelt essence that makes Heltai’s work so compelling.”

— For Folk’s Sake

“…Heltai sings with an emotional maturity that we all need and can all learn from. Empathy, absolution, and acceptance are sought and expected in return.”

— Mother Church Pew

From his love of pop, analog electronic, to country, Izzy Heltai loves blending elements of genres to create his own unique take on what a folk song is. He leads a popular band with Brookline roots that includes Garrett Salazar on drums, Andy Cass on bass, and Micah Katz-Zeiger on everything else. Izzy’s producer, Max Shakun (Parsonsfield), lovingly coins Micah as their swiss army knife, “because he plays literally everything else”.

The child of two mathematicians, Izzy showed little interest in numbers, science, or academia. Luckily, his parents adjusted. His mom took him to lilac festivals, ballets, and Newport Folk Festival back when kids tickets were $20.

Izzy works primarily in his friend Andy Cass’s studio in Williamsburg, MA, where he recorded the entirety of his debut album Father and his new singles. Since Father was released in September 2020, Izzy has moved from a folk sound to a blend of pop, indie, and classic rock. 

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