Molly Tuttle Brings the Highway to Victory North

September 25, 2025

Molly Tuttle has a way of making you feel like the music’s been with her—and with you—all along. This September 30th, when she takes the stage at Victory North, she’ll be doing more than just picking her way through a setlist.

“I’ve been to Savannah many times,” she told me recently. “The first time I was there was for the Savannah Music Festival years ago… It was so magical. I just remember walking around being totally mystified by the city.”

Long before the Grammy awards and national acclaim, Molly Tuttle was a student—first at Berklee College of Music, where she took part in the festival’s Acoustic Music Seminar. “They take music students from all over the country,” she recalled. “You go there and take workshops from different performers… then you perform at the end of the week. I did that a few times.”

Her roots in Savannah run even deeper than that. “My grandmother actually lived in Savannah,” she said, “and has family ties to the city.

I went to the graveyard where some of my relatives are buried and took pictures for my mom.” And now? “My mom is actually coming to the show in Savannah… she’s really excited about it as well.”

That show will be a mix of new fire and old favorites. “We’re playing stuff off my whole discography,” she said. “It feels like it’s kind of a fun and dynamic show. I’ll go from like a bluegrass song to kind of a more rocking type number.”

It’s not just the fans who are finding their rhythm—so is the band. “I have a new band this year, which has been really exciting,” she shared. “Each show we’re dialing stuff in more and more… it has been really fun playing the material off the new record, and also reworking a bunch of my older stuff.”

One song in particular hits a sweet spot for her right now. “I love playing this one—‘The Highway Knows’—that’s one of my favorites off my new album,” she said. “Every time we get to that one in the set, it just feels uplifting to me, which is always what I want to convey with my shows and my music.”

The road to Savannah winds through Tuttle’s recent work on the The Hunger Games – Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes soundtrack—recorded right here in town. “We recorded all the music for that movie in Savannah,” she said.

“We finished recording in a few days, and then we had a whole week just to kind of hang out… go on the boat… walk around. I just absolutely loved getting to spend so much time in the city.”

“We’d take breaks in the afternoon and go to the local wine bar,” she laughed. “Then we’d record for a few more hours and go out to these amazing Savannah restaurants.” She describes the whole experience as “very relaxed,” but also “mindful”—especially when it came to honoring the intentions of author Suzanne Collins and capturing the sound of old folk ballads and Carter Family-style Americana.

For the soundtrack, she even helped track down the perfect instrument: “I connected Dave [Cobb] with some folks in Nashville who run Carter Vintage Guitar… they had the perfect archtop. And the guitar you see in the movie is the guitar I played on the soundtrack.”

From Berklee kid to bandleader to film contributor, Tuttle’s trajectory is dizzying—but her music still feels grounded, even when she’s on tour. “Writing and touring at the same time is tough,” she said. “There are songs I’ve written while being on tour, but I definitely slow down a little bit compared to when I’m home.”

When she returns to Savannah this fall, it won’t just be another stop on the tour. It’ll be a kind of homecoming. “It’s just one of my absolute favorite cities,” she said. And if the highway knows, like her song says, it knows it’s bringing Molly Tuttle somewhere she’s always belonged.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway will perform at Victory North Savannah on Monday, September 30, at 8:00 p.m., with special guests Joshua Ray Walker and Cecilia Castleman. Tickets are available at VictoryNorthSavannah.com

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