Allysen Callery is a folk artist from Rhode Island/USA, Her vocal delivery recalls the haunting style of the late 60’s early 70’s British Folk Revival.
Her first two albums Hopey (2007) and Hobgoblin’s Hat (2010) were self released, but reached an international audience, thanks to radio stations such as Folk Radio UK, Sideways Through Sound (Australia) & favorable reviews from Terrascope.
In 2011 her EP Winter Island was released by Berlin based indie label Woodland Recordings, with Allysen touring Germany & Switzerland in it’s support. The rare first edition of this EP sold out in it’s first month of release.
In 2012 her second EP The Summer Place again was released by Woodland Recordings, with Allysen again returning to Germany and Switzerland. In addition the vinyl only record label JellyFant pressed Winter Island &The Summer Place into one beautiful limited edition record.
September 2013 marked Allysen’s 5th release, the full length Mumblin’ Sue on JellyFant (DE) and domestically on the eclectic 75 or Less label for CDs, iconic artwork designed by the great William Schaff.
2014 saw the release of an EP Allysen Callery Folk Radio UK Session which marked the first official pairing of Allysen and musician/producer Bob Kendall, who provided a delicate psyche touch on 4 tracks, including a never before released track called All in the Morning and a cover of the Traditional Blackwaterside. Two singles were later released that year a cover of Bonnie Prince Billy’s I Gave You for the music blog Slowcoustic and on JellyFant Schallplatten a cover of Sybille Baier’s The End with sweeping production by Bob Kendall.
In 2016 her 6th full length album The Song the Songbird Sings was self-released on CD. In 2017 it was released on vinyl in cooperation of Jellyfant and cosirecords.
Also in 2017 the EP “Prince’s Pine” was release on the UK Folk Label Reverb Worship.
Allysen tours in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and domestically from Maine to NYC.
In 2014 she played multiple showcases at the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival, and was ranked highly by The Washington Post and out of 1500 acts made a list of 40 by NPR ‘s Bob Boilen for “Intriguing unknown artists”.
On July 30th, 2015, Allysen sang on the Harbour Stage with the folk group Haunt The House at The Newport Folk Festival.
March 2017 Allysen returned to SXSW to play two showcases.