For those unaware, A Candle On A Busy Street (releasing March 27th, 2026) is a collection of songs living in the honest tension and middle grounds of life: fear & joy, faith & doubt, justice & injustice, waiting & the now, questions & answers. And the hope of it all. For it is good to feel - no matter how deeply.

My goal is for you to find safe spaces within these lyrics and soundscapes, Sammi Accola says. A place of belonging. A place where you are not alone anymore.

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sammi Accola, 24, hails from Seaside, Florida, and crafts cinematic Americana and folk-rock songs that tell honest stories with vulnerability and grit.

Accola has opened for Thomas Rhett and performed at major festivals, including the 30A Songwriters Festival (five consecutive years), Opelika Songwriters Festival, and Moon Crush Festival, where she opened for Caamp and Brandi Carlile - one of her guiding musical influences.

In 2023, Accola formed a 10-piece band, becoming the first all-female act to perform at Belmont University’s Best of the Best showcase. She was also named a Nissan & Bose influencer and winner of the Belmont Artist Spotlight program.

1. The Beginning of an Apology
2. Turning the Tables (feat. Tinayeshe)
3. Mona Lisa
4. Holy Woman (feat. Andriana Seay, Summerlyn Powers & Michelle Raybourn)
5. Renaissance
6. Survivor’s Guilt
7. Waiting Room
8. Waiting Room (Live at the A Frame) (feat. Jack Henry Campbell)

On an album where Accola hopes that as you listen, it inspires change, and helps others wrestle with life’s seismic questions, inviting listeners to find a safe place to land, she opens on the veritably glistening The Beginning of an Apology and the melodiously-grooved Turning the Tables (featuring emerging worship leader and artist Tinayeshe) and then comes both the emphatically-charged Mona Lisa and the harmonically driven Holy Woman (featuring singer/songwriters Andriana Seay, Summerlyn Powers and Michelle Raybourn).

Along next is an all-embracing beautification within Renaissance and that is in turn backed by the impassioned Survivor’s Guilt, the emotive Waiting Room, the new debut set rounding out on a hauntingly ethereal live version of Waiting Room (Live at the A Frame) (featuring six string picker/songwriter Jack Henry Campbell).

A force for good, Accola draws inspiration from the healing work of Thistle Farms, supporting women survivors of human trafficking, abuse, and addiction. She believes all stories deserve to be heard and has partnered with the Beyond Bars Prison Program, where she leads songwriting workshops for incarcerated individuals - whom she calls the most teachable students ever.

Waiting Room (Live at the A-Frame) | Sammi Accola & Jack Henry Campbell [Official Video]

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