Folksinger Jodi Jones is determined to boldly dream a better tomorrow in the wake of a broken and weary world. Deeply rooted in the musical traditions of her childhood home in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, her work is a poetic and unflinching account of the beauty and hardship of working class experience in America. With defiant wit and innate musicality, she beautifies the bitter truths of our modern age into song as an act of love and solidarity. Art may not save us from our problems, but Jones believes it is crucial to surviving them with our humanity intact.

To sing is to live, to live is to hope, and to hope is to find the strength to fight another day in these dark and uncertain times. With guitar, banjo, fiddle, and even dulcimer in hand, she seeks to alchemize pain into purpose and break old ground to plant new seeds of hope and change.

Jones’s songwriting carries the torch of Pete Seeger’s boundless optimism and Woody Guthrie’s critical and clever tongue, accompanied by blistering mountain banjo stylings by Brendan Macie - a truly high lonesome sound in the tradition of bluegrass trailblazers such as Earl Scruggs and Dr. Ralph Stanley. She’s had the honor of performing on stages alongside contemporary greats such as Willi Carlisle, Jordan Smart, and The Resonant Rogues, and can be found peddling her radical style of roots music wherever she’s been called to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

Her upcoming debut studio album, American Dream is a contemporary return to the tradition of labor music by a new generation of artists hungry not only for life’s barest necessities, but also its limitless beauty and potential.

Self-funded and slated for release in summer of 2026, this record - laden with Jones’s prolific topical songwriting and tied together with a handful of traditional favorites - is the embodied cry of a generation raised up for a world that no longer exists and a search for meaning against the backdrop of war, political corruption, and the grueling realities of modern American life.

Her music invites listeners to ask brave and difficult questions about the world around them with songs that do not offer an escape from our troubles but instead provide a space to understand, process, and transcend them together.