Over more than 25 years as an independent artist, Kris Delmhorst has built a body of work characterized by wide-ranging, genre-agnostic curiosity and constant collaboration. In addition to her nine critically-acclaimed studio albums, she’s written music for films and TV, contributed as a producer, player, and or/singer to scores of fellow artists’ work, and performed thousands of shows across the US and Europe.

Delmhorst’s new album Ghosts in the Garden (3/7/25) is a layered, kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, loss, and fate. Working at Great North Sound Society, a studio built into an 18th-century Maine farmhouse that no doubt harbors ghosts of its own, Delmhorst tracked live with Ray Rizzo on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass, and Erik Koskinen on guitars. An illustrious procession of guest vocalists – Anaïs Mitchell, Rose Cousins, Anna Tivel, Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, Rachel Baiman, Jabe Beyer, and Jeffrey Foucault – brings prismatic brilliance to the tracks, refracting the individual slant of each song’s light.

Inhabiting the record are a host of vivid spirits made tangible: the departed and the disappeared, sins and their consequences; lost loves, missed chances, and the invisible sorrows that accompany us all. With richly observed details and finely calibrated emotional range, Delmhorst finds the wavelength that illuminates these multitudes and invites them into an expansive conversation about the ways we’re shaped by loss, and woven together by unseen threads of love.

Kris Delmhorst lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, the songwriter Jeffrey Foucault, and their daughter.