Bethany Joy

Bethany Joy is a Cleveland singer-songwriter whose songs draw on soul, jazz and blues. She came up in Kent and Akron as Bethany Svoboda, singing with The Speedbumps and Thieves of Joy, then went solo with the EP All We Really Want (2021) and the album Planet (2022); Slow Burn followed in 2025. She played the music feature at Greyt Big Talk with Craig Hassall at The Lumen Penthouse in December 2023.