How a concert became a portal to healing | Avery Anna | TEDxNashvilleWomen
Avery Anna invited her audience to write her a letter—one that let go of something painful. Hundreds of people responded. She turned those letters into an album, and this talk explores how music and the concert experience can become a portal to healing. Attracting attention from outlets like Rolling Stone and Billboard, Avery Anna released her sophomore album, let go letters, on May 16. The moving LP comprises songs all inspired by real-life situations shared by her fans via the “Let Go Letters.” The letter series has long been a safe space for Avery’s listener community, where she invites fans to ‘let go’ of real-life experiences that may be troubling them by putting them on paper. The album follows her celebrated 2024 album, Breakup Over Breakfast, and her 2022 debut EP, Mood Swings, which earned her Artist To Watch nods from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, MusicRow, and CMT and features her Platinum-certified hit, “Narcissist.” Currently featured with Sam Barber on their viral duet, “Indigo,” Avery has garnered more than 450 million global streams to date and she heads out on her headline Let Go Letters Tour this fall. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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