Instruments

• Piano

• Voice

• Flute and Penny Whistle

• Baritone and Soprano Ukulele

• Banjo

• Songwriting

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Willamette University

Services

• Beginning, intermediate, & advanced voice

• Beginning, intermediate piano

• Beginning ukulele, baritone ukulele, banjo

• Music Theory

• Sound Theory/Ear Training

• Mixing, Mastering, Production, & Engineering (GarageBand)

• Song Writing

Bio

Music has been a common thread through Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm’s  family lineage, harkening back to her Welsh Irish ancestors singing 4-part harmony while walking back from the mines or her grandpa singing on the radio with his siblings in the 1940s. Kaeley was taught to learn songs on the piano by ear and accompany herself singing at first through the Susuki method when she was 3, but then she studied piano and competed in sonatina festivals from age 5 to 17. Kaeley’s favorite activity to do after school was to pull out her Fisher Price tape recorder complete with plastic wired rainbow microphone and compose original songs. She and her older sister, a professional opera singer, sang and played duets together. But at age 12, Kaeley wanted to rebel a bit from her family’s classical and folk ways and she formed a rock band with her Jr. High friends. She’s been performing in bands and as a solo songwriter ever since.

At age 25, after co-directing a few non-profit programs working with middle school through college-age youth in Seattle and DC, Kaeley became disabled from a disease affecting her immune system and decided to pursue music full-time rather than work inside at a “desk job." She formed a band called “KPH & The Canary Collective” and often co-organizes concerts in the Pacific Northwest through 4Culture arts grants. Kaeley believes in a “something is better than nothing” accessible (rather than perfectionist) approach to music and home recording and hopes to empower students to interact with music in a way that feels doable and joyful to them.

Influences

Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Radiohead, Beyoncé, The Beatles, Y La Bamba, Sufjan Stevens, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Kimya Dawson, Brandi Carlile, Charlotte Church, Imogen Heap, and many more!