Rory Van James

Rory Van James is a 6-foot-9-inch singer/songwriter based in Duluth. After years of traveling the country as a professional baseball player, he decided to shift gears and begin a music career. After a couple years of performing for local crowds in Minnesota, he moved to Homer, Alaska, where he began to write his first full-length album, The Passage. Following four months of solitude in Alaska’s vast coastal wilderness, he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he recorded his debut album and performed in several musical groups. In 2017 he began a new solo project and traveled to Abbey Road Studios in London to begin recording Sewn Silhouettes, which was released in 2020. He is now based in Duluth.