SEATTLE – On November 21, 2025, at 7:30PM, Town Hall Seattle hosts a concert with composer and singer-songwriter Kaley Lane Eaton featuring her new chamber folk song cycle Maverick Granddaughter. Through poetry and music, Eaton imagines the lives of her maternal line: six generations of only daughters born and raised in the Boulder Valley of present-day Montana, challenged and shaped by the land they encountered over a span of 165 years. With lush string orchestrations, dazzling harp, and Eaton’s sparkling vocals backed by Seattle legend Johnaye Kendrick, Maverick Granddaughter presents a a both harrowing and inspiring narrative where the land wins and the people on the side of it prevail.


The piece honors the many first peoples of the Plains and Rockies, who were there for thousands of years before Eaton’s ancestors, and whose knowledge helped so many to survive this harsh, magnificent and complex land in a deeply violent time. Tom Baker opens the night with a world premiere of Prairie, the first of three extended songs that will be a chamber-folk-operatorio entitled: The Idea of West - Prairie, Desert, Mountain.