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Danielle Ponder with Emme Cannon will be taking the Wilcox Main Stage on Wednesday, July 26.

n 2018, after five years as a public defender, Danielle Ponder made the gutsy decision to pursue her No. 1 passion – music. In 2021, Danielle performed at the Newport Jazz Festival where her performance was hailed as one of the stand-out performances of the event. 2022 was a banner year for Danielle with appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, CBS This Morning, tours with Marcus Mumford, Amos Lee, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Leon Bridges. Ponder’s celestial voice is an instrument that can plumb melancholy depths with a heartsick murmur and scrape the sky with hurricane force wails. She will be joined by Boston-based musician, Emme Cannon, who will open the show with her mystical lyricism and music combining chamber pop, indie-folk, and alternative. It’s going to be a shiver-inducing night of music along the Piscataqua.