Born on the high desert of Santa Fe New Mexico and raised in the mountains of Southern New Zealand, multi award-winning singer-songwriter Holly Arrowsmith was forged by an unlikely matrimony of place. But from her home in Aotearoa New Zealand, she is carving out a path all her own. 

About the Artist

With the conviction that the deeply personal is also universal, Arrowsmith's lyrics orbit around what it means to be human and offer up prayer-like responses to our most intimate struggles. A leader in New Zealand’s contemporary Folk, Alt-Country and Americana movement, Rolling Stone praised her 2024 album Blue Dreams as “A stunning and heartbreaking Americana record that shows why Arrowsmith is one of the country’s top Singer-Songwriters right now” 

Arrowsmith has toured throughout New Zealand, Australia, and North America and shared stages with Sixto Rodriguez, CW Stoneking, Tami Neilson, Jessica Pratt, Nadia Reid, Marlon Williams, Tiny Ruins and Angus & Julia Stone. 

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