Bria Kelly – Singer / Songwriter Bria Kelly is a 16-year-old Virginia native and honor roll student who has been performing since age 11. Bria began her singing career in 2007 by performing our National Anthem for the Norfolk Admirals. She sang for the Admirals many times, and also for other local and regional sports teams, the Air Force and Navy, at the Oceana NAS and Langley AFB air shows, and for local law enforcement and veterans’ organizations. In 2007, at age 11, she won the Philadelphia Eagles’ National Anthem competition, and performed the Anthem for 45,000 Eagles & Jets fans at an actual NFL game in Philadelphia. She has also performed the Anthem for the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Orioles. She has performed the Anthem at large venues featuring Miranda Lambert, Travis Tritt, Craig Morgan, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Rodney Atkins, Tracy Lawrence, Heidi Newfield, REO Speedwagon, Darius Rucker, and Sara Evans. In all, Bria has performed the Anthem over 40 times to a combined audience of over a quarter-million people! And she was the first official performer of Nashville’s CMA Music Fest 2010 by singing the Anthem there. Bria appeared and provided vocals in a music video of one of Grant Austin Taylor’s songs (Make This Love Last), which was selected as a top-64 entry for CMT.COM’s 2008 Music City Madness competition, and which is still featured on their site as one of their favorite “honorable mentions”. Bria won Altavista, Va’s 2009 Colgate Country Showdown singing contest and also competed in the state finals. Bria won Altavista’s 2011 Texaco Country Showdown local contest, and also went on to win the West Virginia-Virginia State Finals. Bria won Eagle97’s (WGH-FM) WinterBlast Challenge contest in February 2011, and as a result, she will be featured by Eagle97 throughout the upcoming year, and will open WinterBlast 2012 at the Hampton Coliseum. Bria won The Performers of Hampton Roads competition, produced in association with SKY4 TV. Bria performed her original song (“May Her”) at Chrysler Hall during the first-ever Hampton Roads Gala, where she was selected the winner by those in attendance. Bria performed at Nashville’s Cadillac Ranch in 2008, and returned to perform during CMA Music Fest 2009. Bria has appeared on TV, both on a Nashville show, Nashville Spotlight, and also locally on WTKR-TV regarding her Philadelphia Eagles performance, and also for a local benefit show. She has performed for Relay For Life, and for many other political, civic and charitable groups. Bria kicked off the City of Norfolk’s 25th annual Grand Illumination Parade in 2009, where 100,000 people heard her sing throughout the streets of Norfolk, VA. Bria writes original songs and plays the guitar, and during 2009 was the lead singer for The Bria Kelly Band. She and two other band members opened for Miranda Lambert, and the band opened for The Carter Twins. They also performed at the Isle of Wight County Fair, the Virginia State Fair and at the Suffolk Peanut Festival. Bria was most recently the lead singer for CoastLand, which played an eclectic mixture of rock, country and blues. CoastLand opened for country star Craig Morgan. In an effort to play a wider variety of music, Bria is now concentrating on her acoustic work, and in that vein, she has performed solo, and also as part of a duet, at many local venues and festivals, and performed solo at both the Nashville Palace and The Listening Room in Nashville during CMA Music Fest 2010. Performing acoustically, she has opened for country stars Darius Rucker, Miranda Lambert, Gloriana, Clay Walker, The Carter Twins, Jerrod Niemann, Ashton Shepherd, Little Big Town and Josh Kelly. She is currently appearing with friends and fellow musicians Logan Flurry, Carson Burch and Andrew Ballard in an as-yet unnamed band.