The next Bluffton Town Hall concert features Jessica Smucker with an opening act of Raiti Children’s jazz band, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.

The performance is at 7 p.m., Friday, April 5, with food served at 6:30 p.m. All events are in the third floor of the town hall Mustard Seed Café is catering the food and donations are accepted at the door.

Smucker’s music is described as saltry, bluesy folk-rock and Dark pop.

In the five years since she started working as a musician, Smucker has garnered numerous honors, including first place in the 2010 SolarFest songwriting contest (Tinmouth, Vt.) and second place in the 2010 Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival songwriting contest (Havre de Grace, Md.).

She was a finalist in the 2010 Indiegrrl songwriting contest. Her poems and essays have been published in turnrow, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Potomac Review, The Dirty Goat, The Mennonite and A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2003).
  


This Broken Moment, the most recent of Smucker’s three albums, was recorded with her band, The Sleeping World, and released in October 2010.

In March 2010 she released a solo EP, Reluctantly Yours. The Sleeping World released a self-titled EP in 2008. All three recordings are available on iTunes and CDBaby.com.