GALVA, Illinois – Grab your lawn chairs and join us on the lawn for another great night of FREE live music at Wiley Park! Galva Arts Council is excited to welcome Kiran Ahluwalia and Amanda Fish to the area this Sunday, June 22nd, as part of the 2025 Levitt AMP Galva Music Series.
Every Sunday through August 3rd, this family-friendly concert series will bring FREE live music to Wiley Park in Galva, Illinois. All concerts begin at 6:00 PM, end around 8:30 PM, and feature two acts per night. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for comfortable lawn seating. A variety of food and non-food vendors will be on-site, and guests are also welcome to bring in outside food.
Amanda Fish began as a singer-songwriter in late 2012, refining her original material as a solo act for 2 years before forming her band in early 2014—a Roots Rock and Soul project featuring Amanda's signature from-the-gut vocals. In 2015, she released her first all-original LP, "Down In The Dirt", on VizzTone Label Group, for which she was awarded the 2016 "Sean Costello Rising Star" Blues Blast Music Award.
Amanda became a semifinalist in the 2017 International Blues Challenge, where she garnered acclaim from new fans and industry professionals alike. From her performance at the IBC, she began touring the US and Canada. In 2018, Amanda released her second all-original studio album, "Free", on VizzTone Label Group, debuting at #6 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart and earning a 2019 Blues Music Award for Best Emerging Artist Album.
During the 2020 COVID crisis, Amanda recorded an album of home-recorded demos of her newly written music, aptly named "Trailer Park Demos", which she self-released exclusively through her website in 2021. Over the next 3 years—heavily influenced by her experiences of new parenthood, the shift from performing music to working as a CNA during the pandemic lockdowns, civil unrest, and government corruption—Amanda wrote and recorded a brand-new album entitled "Kingdom".
The long-awaited new album, described as “A journey of faith, redemption, and hope against a backdrop of chaos and upheaval, 'Kingdom' returns time and again to its message of truth and love”, was released on VizzTone Label Group in July 2024.
Kiran Ahluwalia's open-hearted vocals have established her as one of global music's most compelling cross-pollinators. She writes songs of breakup and love with equal conviction, organically mixing Indian music with West African Blues and American Jazz. Its combination of ethereal elegance and raw urgency is immediately welcoming and ultimately universal, a sound quite unlike anything you've heard.
Her five-piece band is led by ace guitarist Rez Abbasi, whose accolades include the Guggenheim Fellowship and frequent appearances in the Top Ten Guitarists of Downbeat's International Critics Poll. Kiran and Rez are a real-life couple, one born in India, the other in Pakistan. Having grown up in the Diaspora, they crossed ethnic and religious lines between their two warring motherlands to forge a musical and life partnership.
Over the course of seven albums, Kiran has garnered numerous awards including two JUNOs (Canadian Grammys), and her work has featured collaborations with leading musicians from the Celtic and Fado worlds, as well as Malian supergroup Tinariwen. Her reworking of the classic Qawwali tune Mustt Mustt has amassed over 3 million views online, and the inspiration that drove her to create it continues to inform her music today.
Event Info
Street parking is available around the park and surrounding areas. Please do not park in the park.
New this year, handicap-accessible seating is located in the northwest corner of the park, with a designated unloading zone and golf cart shuttle service available for assistance.
Those with golf carts/UTVs are asked to keep their vehicles on the perimeter of the audience to prevent blocking the view of guests and minimize the risk of accidents while driving through the park.
The Levitt AMP Galva Music Series is supported by many community sponsors, donors, and volunteers, and the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, a private foundation that empowers towns and cities across America to transform underused public spaces into thriving destinations through the power of free, live music.
Learn more at www.GalvaMusic.com.