Hollee Spring is a singer-songwriter and performer known for her soulful voice that glides effortlessly from powerhouse anthems to intimate coffeehouse ballads. As a soloist and acoustic guitarist, Hollee has made her name playing the restaurants, event venues, and live spaces of Savannah where audiences have come to know her through her stripped-back and artful covers of other people’s songs.
Her new project, Hollee Spring & the Solstice, is the other side of that story: original music rooted in the intimacy of acoustic guitar and her distinct voice, and shaped by the ensemble around her. Upright bassist and cellist Quentin Smith is a UGA-trained music educator based in Springfield, GA, and percussionist Michael Carp, faculty at Georgia Southern Gretsch School of Music, holds credentials that include performances with the Savannah and Hilton Head Philharmonics, orchestral touring in Europe, and shared stages with Andrea Bocelli, Natalie Merchant, and the Indigo Girls. Drawing from a lineage that includes Damien Rice’s raw emotionality, the rooted rock dynamics of Fleetwood Mac, and the confessional singer-songwriter tradition of the Lilith Fair era, Hollee Spring & the Solstice is an acoustic rock band with Americana roots, a slight country influence, and orchestral dimensions that reflect the classical backgrounds at its core.
A Burlington, Vermont native, Hollee has been singing since childhood and launched her professional career at 14, opening for The Ryan Hanson Band in Burlington, Vermont. She earned her B.A. degree at Ithaca College in New York State and later lived in Denver, Colorado before relocating to Savannah to pursue music opportunities and warmer weather — and she couldn’t be happier she did.