Monica Jane and Joel Lamb

Wilmington-based singer-songwriter Monica Jane Hoelscher has been singing since she could talk. She fell in love with poetry as a little girl, started playing guitar when she was 17, and performed her debut gig at 22 in her hometown of Sturgis, Michigan. After exploring many musical genres, she has grown into the Americana country-pop musician she is today. “I like old country music and any good country music. Anyone who has clever lyrics is my kind of singer. I like songs that draw you in with a story or a feeling. Songs that have the power to give you chills the whole way through,” Hoelscher says. And that’s exactly what her second album, “Wildfire,” released in February 2019, does to anyone who listens.