With his smoky, soothing voice and introspective lyrics, this acoustic singer-songwriter is internationally sought-after.

• Ari Hest is a Wolf Trap favorite for a reason—his knack for channeling “poignant, acoustic reverie,” as USA Today calls it, makes dedicated fans out of audiences everywhere.
• Hest spent the entire year of 2008 writing, recording, producing, and releasing one new song per week. The acclaimed album Twelve Mondays (2009) is a compilation of 12 fan-selected songs from this project.
• Along with his notable originals like “Cranberry Lake” and “Dead End Driving,” Hest is known for his prolific covers, including nuanced interpretations of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” and Radiohead’s “No Surprises.”
• “An urbane folk-rocker with a sonorous baritone, Ari Hest sounds like a man out of time.”—Washington Post