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Lizzy Ross Comes Home With ‘Violet Bell’

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Lizzy Ross

After spending four years making music in Nashville, singer-songwriter began to feel homesick.

Ross grew up in North Carolina, went to UNC-Chapel Hill and started her career in the Triangle music scene. While Nashville was filled with passionate and impressive musicians, she missed being part of a community that she felt really embraced diverse creative expressions.

Ross has reconnected and collaborated with a number of artists since her return last summer, and recently recorded a new live album with musician .

Host Frank Stasio talks with Ross and  Ruiz-Lopez about their new creative partnership, and the two perform original songs from the new album “.”

The duo plays the ; ; and as part of the .  ​

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Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's app Director.