Meet The Artists: Jessie Kilguss
- Susan
- Jan 17
- 1 min read
Jessie Kilguss for Winter Solstice at Howl! Happening
Jessie Kilguss released her 6th album, They Have a Howard Johnson’s There, in November 2025. In June 2025 she was an artist in residence at Fish Factory Creative Center in Stodvarfjordur, Iceland where she wrote 9 new songs.
In 2015, she sang harmony and played the harmonium with Freddie Stevenson, opening for the Waterboys on the European leg of their Modern Blues tour. Also in 2015, she played a featured show at the Sundance Film Festival.
Kilguss is a former actress who made the switch to songwriting after working with one of her musical heroes, Marianne Faithfull, in the London and Sydney productions of The Black Rider, a musical written by Tom Waits and William Burroughs, directed by Robert Wilson. This experience inspired her to starting writing her own music. Other acting highlights include a UK production of As You Like It, directed by Royal Shakespeare Company founder, Sir Peter Hall and the film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder.
She currently also sings with the Loser’s Lounge, Gramercy Arms, Jim Andralis and the Syntonics and Benjamin Cartel.
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