Michelle Held

Michelle Held and Emily Rose will perform 2-3 duo sets during Blissfest Music Festival 2024. Stages and Times TBA. Michigan powerhouses Emily Rose and Michelle Held share a unique and joyful connection and a gift for crafting heartfelt narratives. Both hailing from Detroit, they merge their regarded solo careers to deepen empathic impact. These two distinctive voices blend in rare and gorgeous harmony, offering listeners a warm, healing space to receive finely crafted and poetic lyrics that empower voices unheard. Both with new solo releases, Rose’s “Alma” is a story of love and devotion, told through the eyes of an elderly man’s experience with Alzheimer’s disease and “The World Moves On” is Held’s pandemic-inspired reflection on life’s fragile yet resilient nature. Renowned folk icon Tom Paxton said, “Two years ago, I told Michelle that I thought she had the gift. I am changing ‘thought’ to ‘know.’” And beloved radio personality Ann Delisi described Rose as an incredibly captivating storyteller. Profound as individual artists, their collaboration has been deemed transcendent.