[Cover photo credit to Jonathan McLeod]

Gabrielle Pietrangelo will be releasing her debut album, Back To The Heart, on March 7th, 2025 and she has shared first track, “Bisbee Bluebird.” A love song that “invokes longing, loss and hope,” it’s accompanied by a music video featuring a shadow puppet story by multi-media artist Luca Cotten, directed by Tavi Venzin. It’s set on the holiday streets of Bisbee, Arizona.

Winner of the 2023 John Lennon Summer Songwriting Contest, Gabrielle has performed with a variety of artists, among them musicians such as Howe Gelb, Brian Lopez, Calexico, Amos Lee, Mamma Coal, and Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta.

On March 7th (album release day), Gabrielle will perform a special show at Tucson’s Temple of Music & Art at Hosclaw Hall. Joining Gabrielle will be her long-time collaborators and fellow musicians Howe Gelb, John Convertino and Jacob Valenzuela (Calexico), Brian Lopez (Xixa, KT Tunstall, Calexico), Naim Amor, blues aficionado Tom Walbank, Mamma Coal, Thoger Lund, Chris Pena, Nick Coventry, Casey Hadland, John Coinman, and Wolf Larsen.