Clymer & Kurtz

“That gave me chills, and I don’t get chills anymore” – “Ethereal” – “Outstanding” – “Exquisite”– “Soul filling” – “Healing”

“There are so many hard things in the world. The songs you’re writing stir the soul with emotion … and move [listeners] toward a place of hope.” –Debra C.

Folk-rock singer-songwriter duo Clymer & Kurtz seamlessly blends intense and gentle melodies textured with harmonies, agile and inventive guitar playing, piano, and sometimes percussion. Based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Maria Clymer and Christopher Kurtz have collaborated for decades, crafting music that is at once simple and rich, emotive and unique.

Inspired by Over the Rhine, Indigo Girls, The Proclaimers, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Diamond Rio, Alison Krauss, Donna the Buffalo, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, and many others, their music has been called “freshly original” … “outside the usual run” … “subtle and always imaginative.”