Two performers who fall into the “folk pop” category — Shanna in a Dress and Emily the Band — will perform at Sunday’s Levitt AMP concert at Wiley Park in Galva starting at 6 p.m. The event is rain or shine and attendees are asked to bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating. Food vendors will also be on site.

Shanna in a Dress is your quirky best friend who refuses to wear pants. She says what everyone has felt but no one else will say and you’ll get an uncensored journey of clever humor and heartbreak, extreme candor, and a hefty side of entertainment at her shows. 

Her sound has been described as John Prine mixed with Ingrid Michaelson with a twist of Phoebe Buffay from Friends all wrapped up in a sweet voice accented by guitar, piano, and ukulele. 

Shanna started her career at the University of Virginia, fell in love with Boulder, Colo., and now keeps her fun music flowing out of Nashville unless she’s touring the U.S. or Europe. 

Her charisma and boldly honest songs are full of interesting language and wordplay and delight audiences of all ages.

Most recently, Shanna in a Dress was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriting Contest and will be performing with a full band at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Folks Fest. In 2020 alone, Shanna was a winner in the Kerrville New Folk competition, winner of the Great River Folk Fest Song Competition, a finalist at Songwriter Serenade, and a Grassy Hill Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.

Emily the Band is a three-piece queer girl group based in Peoria. Emily Antonacci, Camryn Proctor, and Abbey Haste began to share their indie alt-pop anthems with audiences in the Peoria area in April 2021. Since then, they have expanded their reach to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Nashville, and beyond.

Their highly-anticipated, self-produced debut album, the heartbreak album (2022), has been described as a “hooky pop-gem” (Jon Norton, WGLT). Their upcoming EP, mwah!, will be available in the summer of 2024.