Handsome and Gretyl

Join us for a night of music and fun featuring Jonny Akamu and folk duo Handsome and Gretyl in a concert benefitting Bell Tower Counseling. This will be an all-ages show hosted at Trinity Church Seattle. Jonny Akamu is a guitar teacher, songwriter, and skilled musician living in Seattle, Washington. Over the last two years, he has been writing a blues album based on the life of King David. This recently released album, "David's Blues", connects lyrics based on the life and writings of this biblical songwriter with the genres of blues, spiritual, folk, gospel, and country music. Handsome and Gretyl released their debut EP, Hold On Tight Love in 2011, followed by a Christmas EP, Wonder, in 2012 and their first full-length, Miles and Miles, in 2013. Throughout 2015, they crafted a new vision called TWELVE — an album that was created by writing, recording, and releasing one song at a time, one song for each month of the year. They've created an earthy-folk feel crossed with an imaginative jaunt of pop, a sweet and tangy piece of wild berry pie. This duo draws from real life, delivering optimistic though realistic lyrics, seasoned with the chill of snow, the sea breeze, and the hope of tomorrow’s sunrise. Bell Tower Counseling was founded in 2021 with a mission to provide affordable and accessible counseling services to those in need of support in Ballard, Seattle, and across the state of Washington. They've grown to a team of 8 clinicians providing thousands of hours of evidence-based and biblically-sound counseling each year, and in 2022 granted more than $90,000 in scholarships in order to help increase access to high quality counseling in our community. Learn more about Bell Tower Counseling here: belltowercounseling.org