Music
Music has always been a part of who I am. I’m pretty sure I sang instead of cried for my first sound as a baby. My parents were both musicians, and there was music of all kinds playing in our house from the time everyone woke up until the time everyone went to bed. Music occupies a majority of the best memories of my whole life.
My love of music is also tied to my love of acting/performing, through starting my love affair with performance in musicals. I joined my first worship team when I was seven years old, and from then on I was either on a worship team or leading one at just about every church I regularly attended. Being on stage with a microphone in my hand was one of my happy places from a pretty young age. Through my childhood and teen years, I competed in vocal competitions, made state choirs, and the first rumor I ever heard about myself in high school was that I was an opera singer who had just moved here from out of town. Not a bad start.
Amy Jelsma
Hellebore Hollow — Honey & Hymns
My first job ever was as a backup vocalist for a darling bluegrass artist by the name of Ginger Boatwright at a down-home bluegrass festival in Alaska when I was ten. So naturally, I’ve always been drawn to the sounds and stories of bluegrass. That love eventually found its way into Hellebore Hollow Honey & Hymns.