Petersburg Pilot -

Alaska singer songwriter Kray Van Kirk will perform live in Petersburg Friday, November 13 at the Holy Cross House.

Kirk plays songs that contain mythic components containing old stories from the British Isles.

"A lot of my songs have some mythic components but that basically means I tell a lot of stories in my songs," Kirk said. "Some are just typical tear jerkers about the one that got away."

Much of his music is inspired from growing up reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy and other fantasy tales as well as hearing songs that for a few hundred years were sung and heard only in the old...