Ari Hest

Ari Hest is a singer-songwriter from the Bronx, specializing in beautiful melodic folk music. He has toured extensively in the US and abroad with the likes of Martin Sexton, Suzanne Vega, and Ani Difranco. In 2016 he released Silver Skies Blue, an album of duets with Judy Collins, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. Ari released his ninth LP, Natural, in the spring of 2017. His songs have appeared on TV and film, including The Path, The Lincoln Lawyer, Private Practice, Army Wives, and One Tree Hill.

About Naked Soul

Naked Soul presents performances from some of the country’s top singer/songwriters without microphones or amplifiers, as if the music were, acoustically speaking, naked. The musicians in the series draw upon the universal themes inherent in Himalayan art—spirituality, peace, tolerance, wisdom, compassion—on select Friday evenings.