Maui Songwriter Rounds

Maui Songwriter Rounds
Presented with Mana’o Radio and Sara Jelley Music

Thursday, January 8, 2025
Starts at 7:30pm
Run time: 2 Hours – no intermission

About the Show

An Intimate Evening of Story and Craft: Folky Females Edition

Featuring Nicole Olney and Sara Jelley

About the Artists

Nicole Olney is a poet, a yogi, and an aspiring five-string banjo witch. Born in the Mojave desert and cured in west LA, she then found herself paddling across the pacific ocean on a surfboard looking for waves. She landed on Maui, and discovered a wellspring of healing: sitting in her jungle yard writing solo songs on guitar. Her songs are articulate and dreamlike, weaving seamlessly between vivid grounding imagery and illuminated questioning that hits straight to the core. Her voice carries the kind of vintage vibrato power you’d find on a dusty old country record, and also a tender softness that leaves you with a feeling of ease.  

Sara Jelley is a indie/folk pop vocalist and songwriter and vocal coach living on Maui. Her cinematic indie pop songs sound like Sara Bareilles, Lizzy McAlpine and Jewel, and are aimed at inspiring listeners to be vulnerable and fully sit with and experience the entire range of our human emotions, from anger to bliss and all that’s in between. Her music often touches on her journey through anxiety, PTSD, and codependency, aiming to create a therapeutic experience for listeners.  Sara had a song recently placed on Netflix’s Selling the City and Perfect Match.

Sara’s new album, “New Moon” is her second solo release, and contains collaborations with many talented artists from Hawaii and beyond. New Moon is about starting fresh with clarity out of a disheartening period of stuckness, by finding your connection to your own worthiness and your choices of how to show up as the best version of yourself with the time you have left.