Bridgewater native and Nashville recording artist Jessica Crawford DiPuma returns to the Sipe Center stage on January 18 at 7:30 pm.
She brings family stories and songs rooted in her Valley upbringing for an evening of Sentimental Americana music. Jessica grew up here in the Shenandoah Valley on a winding road that twisted and dipped through the rolling hills of farmland. That backroad was an accurate depiction of her inner world of insecurities and overthinking as a child. The place she found a deep sense of belonging was with her extended family on her grandmother’s farm. After pursuing music in Nashville and then New Jersey, she made her way back home to Virginia to her grandmother’s farmhouse in 2019. Upon her grandmother’s passing, she was afforded the opportunity to take care of the house that had taken care of her family for generations while writing songs about what she had learned from her grandparents’ well-lived lives. It was a season of reconnecting with her family roots and blooming in new ways, so “Dogwood Tree,” the state tree and flower of Virginia, was the perfect title for her latest sentimental project.
Tickets are $20. Tickets are available for purchase online, over the phone or in person at the box office. The box office is open for in-person sales Thursday through Sunday, from 3-8 pm or by calling 540-908-4208.