Love Letter Music

23/10/2025

🦇October Shows & Spooky Broadcasts:

A few sweet and shadowy offerings from across the LoveLetter universe this week...

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🕛 SATURDAY 10/25, 12-2PM: Holly Frost performs live on KOOP Radio (91.7 KOOP / koop.org), sharing haunting vintage tunes from the 1920s and '30s (on Adventures in Sound on KOOP Radio!)

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🎤SATURDAY 10/25, 6PM: A spectacular house concert event on The Ledge: Ray Prim live at Concerts on the Ledge w/Holly Frost

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🕯️TUESDAY 10/28, 7PM: After a long hibernation, One Big Dark Room returns to the stage for the first time since 2019. Free, all ages (but slightly maturer content and vibes), live at Batch - Craft Beer and Kolaches (with Gregory Hagen on bass).

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☕FRIDAY 10/31, 10AM: The October CROONER COFFEE HOUR live broadcast (via the Holly Frost Page here on FB). A cozy, spooky morning of musical novelties (requests encouraged).

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🎃FRIDAY 10/31, 7PM: A Holly Frost Halloween Party (also at BATCH). From ghostly swing to pumpkin-spiced pop, it's an evening of weird, wacky, and bewitching tunes from the 1920s through the 1960s (plus a few of my own). Free, all ages/family-friendly.

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Hope you'll swing by or tune in - would love to share a song or two with you this spooky season...

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Not an event, but still neat-o: our friend Gavin Castleton released a new edition of his Halloween songs collection, and you can hear me on "Falling" (our 2013 cover of the Twin Peaks theme, and possibly my favorite recording I've ever sung on).
https://gavincastleton.bandcamp.com/album/deep-cuts

15/10/2025

Last week I lost my best (canine) friend, and while she had a long, happy life, and while I knew it was coming, my heart is utterly in pieces knowing I'll never see her again.
.. just in time (grief/loss processing, etc), I happen to have my first IRL One Big Dark Room performance since before the pandemic scheduled for the end of this month here in Austin -

I started writing, and subsequently recording and releasing music as this moniker (under the Love Letter Music umbrella) around 2012 when I had my first big grief experience. I was lucky to have many very understanding friends at the time who did what they could, but the only way I knew how to process anything was to write and write and write, so that's what's I did. I decided I needed a safe sandbox for those songs because they were vulnerable and heavy, so One Big Dark Room was born.

I've publicly released two albums and a single, and written at least 100 songs for this project since then, but I've only gotten to perform them out in the real world a few times. There was a whole performance-art online version that was developed throughout the pandemic and it has been a really meaningful space for me to let my creativity run wild... It's also been impactful to see others commune over their own hurts and move toward peace and healing through these songs over the years. It's nice to be able to provide some solace and comfort, especially in an area of the heart that is so tender and raw and often not cared for so well.

Since it's close to Halloween, I'm going to be leaning on the memento mori/grief tunes of the catalog. It would mean the world to me to have some friends there if you're local to Austin. 🖤 It's free. I love Batch and you probably will too if you haven't been yet. I hope you'll consider spending some time in this sacred space with me if you are able.

🕯️ 10/28/2025: Austin TX

after years in the luminiferous ether, One Big Dark Room materializes once more-

summoned to the mortal plane for a night of remembrance and release as All Hallow’s draws ever nearer...

songs of grief, loss, and the slivers of light in between… where the living and the departed may still commune.

with gregory hagen offering grounding and presence for this passage through the dark.

tuesday · october 28 · batch · 7pm · no cover

💚🖤🌙🦇🗡️💔💀🖤💚

14/08/2025

☀️ Join me on a French-coastal summer adventure!

🎶I’m in the midst of creating the first full-length Holly Frost album, "Chansons de la Côte" — a beachy, bilingual collection of sea-breezy swing, vintage French chansons, and original tunes inspired by the mid-20th-century French Riviera.

📀 Support on Ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/HollyFrost

Preorder the album, grab nautical-themed handmade merch, or donate — every bit helps bring this salty, sunlit record to life.

Ko-fi supporters get behind-the-scenes updates, sneak peeks, and if we hit the goal, a FREE bonus item in the mail. Contribute by Aug 20, 2025, to have your name in the album credits!

🎥 Watch the video to learn more, and help me make the final wisps of Summer 2025 unforgettable- together! 💙