Holly Miranda 915PM
Gracie and Rachel 8PM

Holly Miranda grew up singing in church. She began piano lessons at the age of 6 and taught herself guitar at 14. She wrote her first song shortly after.

When she was 16, she moved by herself from suburban Detroit to New York City. Her first gig was at the infamous Sidewalk Cafe on 6th street and Ave A in the East Village. There she cut her teeth along side Sidewalk alumni such as The Moldy Peaches, Nicole Atkins and Beck. She recorded two solo albums during this time and self-released one “High Above the City,” which she sold online and at shows. She began touring the east coast performing solo at cafes and coffeehouses.

In the early 2000’s, while recording her next record at Headgear studios in Brooklyn, she and the producer Alex Lipsen decided to release the record as a band effort. This was the beginning of the shoegazey indie-rock band The Jealous Girlfriends. The band released two albums and performed with such acts as Shudder to Think, Nada Surf, Metric, and Sea Wolf. Holly continued to perform and tour solo between TJG tours. During this time she began writing songs for her first worldwide released solo album “The Magicians Private Library” produced by TV on The Radio’s Dave Sitek. TMPL came out on XL recordings in 2010.

Orchestral pop piano-violin duo, Gracie and Rachel, crafts intricate tunes combining classical string elements with haunting, fierce vocals augmented by sparse but powerful percussion. Ivory satin lined with teeth, the duo find beauty in stark simplicity and pause to breathe a hint of the abstract into the highly emotive, evolved body they create. Playing venues such as City Winery, (le) poisson rouge, and Mercury Lounge this past year, Gracie and Rachel has developed a strong NYC audience that is expanding quickly into other markets across the country with the release of their latest single "Tiptoe." The song was premiered by NPR-affiliate WNYC Soundcheck on July 10th, 2015 and released worldwide the same day.