Ariana Hodes & The Longest Year

A dynamic duo that works both as background or main-stage level energy. We love to engage with folks, chat and laugh between songs as much as we love to simply play the songs you love. As long-time workers in customer service we understand the importance of adaptability and curating the right experience you're looking for at your event.

Ariana Hodes and Cassandra Bailey-Langjahr are best friends who met bartending in Nashville TN, in 2017. Their first co-write resulted in nothing less than magic, the blend of their voices nothing short of astonishing. They decided to play out as a duo, putting themselves out on tour collaborating on a set, combining their previously written solo songs. Along the way they stopped at a farmhouse in Iowa for a short writing retreat. One pandemic and two cross-state moves later, they're putting the finishing touches on these songs, to be released late 2024, and into 2025 as a series of singles.

Most people would have given up on a project like this one, but these songs are too good, the lyrics still pertinent, and the passion still present from these two accomplished performers. Wherever they play together, the quality of their close harmonies never fail to impress, the catchiness of their hooks get audiences humming, and invariably wanting to know where they can find the recordings. Well, as they say in the restaurant world where these two have scraped up every dollar they could to make this music: heard, and yes chef, right away chef.

We can do as little as us, a guitar, and a keyboard, or we can do a small to mid level room on our own amplification and microphones, requiring proximity to an outlet or power strip. We do not currently travel with our own lighting or staging.