Shea Presents Will Evans w/s/g Wallace Field

ABOUT WILL EVANS
Will Evans pulls everyone into his embrace. He musically accesses a space without boundaries where all are welcome to commune openly and move freely. Through quotable folk-inspired lyrics, breezy grooves, and roots energy, it’s as if he’s giving you permission to be that pure self you can’t always be at work or even at home…

The Rhode Island-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist also puts his words into action via his “Kind Folk” fan community, activating small acts of kindness, charity, and goodwill in tandem with performances nationwide. After generating over 50 million streams independently, he inspires once again through a series of 2024 releases and much more to come.
“I want to make music that moves you,” he states. “It’s rooted in compassion, kindness, and community. With anything I release, there’s a lot of passion behind it. I’m always giving you the most authentic version of myself.”
Buzzing out of the East Coast, he has consistently engaged and enraptured a fervent audience. By rotating between acoustic guitar, didgeridoo, handpan, percussive beatboxing, and more, he has developed a living and breathing signature sound of his own. Following Wishin’ Well [2013] and Signal Flares [2015], he reached a creative tipping point on Rise [2018]. Beyond collaborations with Trevor Hall, Mihali, and Paul Izak, it yielded the fan favorites “Adam & Eve”, “Rise” and “Hoka Hey” with over 5 million streams and counting. The album notably garnered three nominations at the New England Music Awards. 2023 saw him share After The Burnt Out Sun. Met with critical acclaim, “a sophisticated collection,” Seven Days professed, “the record showcases Evans’ multi-instrumentalist prowess.” Between selling out shows across the United States and Europe, he has graced bills alongside Crosby & Nash, Grace Potter, Bruce Hornsby, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Trevor Hall, and Railroad Earth, to name a few. Meanwhile, “Kind Folk” has supported philanthropic organizations, including Surfrider Foundation, Operation Warm, Do It For The Love Foundation, Always Home, and more. Their campaigns have ranged from beach cleanups, clothing and food drives and benefits for land trust organizations.
All the while, he continually pushes himself sonically.
“I try to find sounds that are grounding ,” notes Will. “Everything starts with the rhythm, but I just love to create this ethereal atmosphere like a blanket around the lyrics. I treat it like a tapestry and add colors. It almost feels spiritual.”
That’s definitely the case with the 2024 single “The Wild Unknown.” This patchwork of dreamy guitar and vibrant bells finds him in a moment of reflection. The lyrics wrestle with life’s highs and lows only to lift off on the anthemic refrain, “We lit the fire in the wild of the great unknown.”
“It talks about how the mistakes you make and the lessons you learn in life are what really shape you,” he goes on. “All of those things are important to help you on your journey, rather than shutting them out and considering them failures. You need to be strong enough to own those experiences and actions. Life is just a wild ride.”
On “Lay Our Weapons Down,” his mesmerizing vocals practically float atop lithe acoustic guitar. Emotion pours straight from the heart as he wonders aloud, “What are you gonna do when you hit the ground?”
Then, there’s “Tides.” It layers hummable melodies between gentle guitar and soft piano. He cuts deep with proclamations a la, “It wasn’t a burden, but it was enough to change the tides.”
In the end, Will has built a place for you, if you need it.
“This is pure music,” he leaves off. “It’s like my sanctuary or my connection to a higher power. I hope it can be the same for you. I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to create.”
ABOUT WALLACE FIELD
Wallace Field is a dream-weaver. Nowhere is it more apparent than on the Northampton-based singer-songwriter’s newest release, Fantasy, out September 22, 2026.
Written between 2021 and 2024, the five tracks that comprise Fantasy carry the Wallace Field signature: earnest storytelling, haunting, powerful vocals, and arrangements that deepen each song’s meaning. The project is her third release, following her debut studio album All Costs (2023). Fantasy weaves five stories – both autobiographical and character-driven – into a tender portrait of an imagined world in which everyone is self-sufficient, secure, and free to express themselves.
“It’s a celebration of simple pleasures and miracles,” Field says. It’s also an antidote to the AI moment. With vocals and guitar recorded live over three sessions and organic, roomy-sounding production by Michael Lesko, the record captures Wallace Field at her most confident and aspirational. The soft distortion and hiss of tape adds a warmth and immediacy deeply rooted in the real world, in defiance of lab-grown perfectionism
“Our day-to-day lives are not in high definition,” she says. “That’s not how our memory works, and that’s not how nostalgia works. 
Fantasy delivers a unique approach to nostalgia: “The Commons” harkens back to the days of feudalism, when peasants were able to provide for their basic needs by sharing common land before it was privatized. The realization that even peasants had more self-sufficiency through labor than modern-day members of the working class became the central fantasy of the EP.
The rest of the tracks explore a wide range of daydreams and what-ifs – what if we all felt welcome and secure at home? asks “July,” which features the sound of Field’s childhood local freight train as it passes through town, captured by Field herself. The title track indulges in the delight of an imagined love, while “This Time Around” provides a recursive meditation on a breakup. “The Wedding Gown,” inspired by Wallace Field’s love of thrift shopping for the white gowns that have become her signature stagewear, contrasts alternate timelines with one another: what If I never chose love? What if I did?  
When asked about the EP’s title, Field refers back to the project’s cover image: Wallace Field in her signature white gown and red hairbow, depicted from the back while standing on the trunk of a fallen tree. “This person doesn’t exist,” she says. “It’s myself as a character – we’re all some kind of fantasy to somebody.” Around her is a golden winter landscape on the brink of spring. It’s a landscape in transition, laden with possibility, on the brink of exploding with green.
“What is gritty and imperfect is real,” Field says. The grit and heart is its own kind of perfection, the perfection that the moment requires in response to the impossible demands of neverending consumption and the endless scroll. We should be so lucky to share the Fantasy with Wallace Field
Learn more: wallacefieldmusic.com. Bio written by Kimaya Diggs.