Back in August, Kansas City native Hailes, an R&B singer-songwriter and Broadway performer  based in New York City, returned to her hometown for a show at the Blue Room inside the American Jazz Museum. It was a massive success, selling out the venue, and rekindling something inside the musician, which led to her moving back to the area.

Since then, she’s performed with her new band at the Plaza Art Fair and traveled with them to Chicago to open for Solomon Fox on his Sweettooth tour. Hailes also headlined her first major NYC show at Ars Nova last month, and will have her next Kansas City show at In the Lowest Ferns on Thursday, November 20. We hopped on Zoom with the musician ahead of her upcoming show to discuss just what brought her back to Kansas City.

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