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Maya de Vitry, Photo: Jay Strausser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a humility and a groundedness to Maya de Vitry\u2019s music. Maybe it\u2019s the result of growing up in a musical family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, learning songs around the kitchen table and playing in Sunday morning gospel-hour jams. Her years of traveling and busking and camping out at old-time festivals surely play a role, too. De Vitry taps into something pure and essential about music, something that exists not in any press release or recording studio, but in the moment when a song enters the air and spins an invisible thread between the singer and the listener. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a founding member of the Stray Birds, a harmony-driven roots trio, de Vitry honed her skills as a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. The band recorded five albums and toured internationally before parting ways in 2018. Immediately after the disbanding, de Vitry took a break from the music industry, working at a Starbucks in Nashville and writing dozens of songs in her free time. (A co-worker ended up inspiring one of her most affecting songs, \u201cStacy in Her Wedding Gown,\u201d which appears on her 2023 EP, Infinite<\/a>.<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the post\u2013Stray Birds years, de Vitry has home-grown an abundant solo career, self-releasing four albums and an EP while collaborating prolifically with other songwriters in her adopted hometown of Nashville. She has also grown into an identity as an empathic and insightful producer, lending her talents to forthcoming albums by Joel Timmons, Shelby Means, and Hannah Delynn. De Vitry has begun producing her own releases as well, including her newest full-length album, The Only Moment<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded at Mike Elizondo\u2019s Phantom Studios near Nashville, The Only Moment<\/em> features de Vitry\u2019s frequent collaborators Anthony da Costa (guitar), Ethan Jodziewicz (bass), Dominic Billett (drums), Alex Wilder (keys and engineering), and Phoebe Hunt (vocals). The album\u2019s emotive songs follow themes of presence and movement, and the production seems to grow organically out of the sound of de Vitry\u2019s voice, which flows from a gentle whisper to a soaring howl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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