Erica Ruth Kelly

Erica Ruth Kelly is a 25 year old girl from Montreal. Some people mistake her for someone from Halifax. She loves sincerity, dialogue, honesty and coffee. She loves dark comedy. She beams when she smells her laundry detergent.She graduated from Concordia University with a double major in Philosophy and Religion and quite enjoys thinking critically. She has been writing songs and playing shows for a little over a year now. She used to lone wolf it on stage, but now has her friend and producer Anthony Hansen accompany her on the keyboard. Together they try to create little spaces where the audience can feel safe enough to be at their most vulnerable.She is also a self-published poet and author with four chapbooks to her name: "Tea with Aphrodisiacs", "The Liberty Belle", "The Grace that Surrounds Me" and most recently, "The Muse of Absolute Joy".Along with the help of her friend Anita Abbasi, she also began producing films. These include "Self-Acceptance is a Form of Protest" and "Ugly Magazine" which she also wrote and directed, as well as "Words are the Vanity to a Poet Damned" and a music video for her song "That Skirt", both directed by Abbasi.She is probably sitting somewhere right now, trying to define art to herself, thinking about love or helping a stranger bring their carriage up steps.