Watch live on Blue’s Facebook Page. With a crystalline voice that has been characterized as “somewhere between Aimee Mann and Bonnie Raitt,” songwriter Van West released her first album Something Real in 2015 and the EP Honey & Hive in 2016, both produced by Ed DesJardins in Readfield.
Winner of the 2015 Maine Songwriters Association songwriting contest and a finalist in 2017, Van West is releasing her new album of original songs “Happiness to Burn,” produced by internationally-acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane Alexander in Los Angeles, in April 2018.
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