Get ready to jam — and cry it out.

At Super Sad Song Show, the founders, Ashton Edminster and Piper Byers, aim to showcase local musicians’ most personal work . Edminster first conceived the idea for the series in 2023, born from a need for catharsis. click to enlarge

“I was going through some personal stuff in my life, and I had just been writing so much,” Edminster says. “I was sending all of these audio files to all my friends, and they were like, ‘This is some of the best stuff you've ever written. I can't wait to hear this live.’ And it occurred to me that in all my 10-plus years of singing live, every single venue was always like, ‘Can you do happy, upbeat covers?’ They never really wanted to know what was really going on in the mind of a songwriter who lives their life day-

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