St. Pete band Someday Honey is all the way back after Kaleigh Baker’s retreat to New York

Someday Honey is all the way back, although they never fully went away. Well, Kaleigh Baker did. In 2022, the band’s lead singer moved to Orchard Park, New York, near Buffalo—and not far from where she grew up—to work on a 100-acre farm and clear her head.

“I was just running,” she said by phone a couple of days after the show. “I do that sometimes.” Baker didn’t know whether she’d return to Florida or not.

The band—which played Palladium Theater last weekend—never formally broke up, but clearly could not continue without their frontwoman. The guys moved on to their own projects. Baker didn’t perform during her 10-month stay up north but ultimately the pull of making music with Someday Honey was strong enough to bring her back. “I wasn’t going to come back to Florida unless it was to make music with these guys,” she said.

Baker said that Someday Honey doesn’t plan to resume the club-gig grind, but instead perform a couple times a month in more of a showcase format. She expects the band to be back at the Side Door in the near future.

Someday Honey also has a formal recording session scheduled. They had previously cut a batch of tunes in home studios—much of it during Covid, relying on a lot of overdubs—but scratched its release.

This time, the foursome is going in with more intent, armed with a specific set of songs and, unlike their live sets, an honest-to-goodness plan—until, one presumes, the plan changes. The sessions are set for three full days and nights in mid-August at Southview Arts studios, with owner/engineer Jim Gilmour.

Someday Honey’s next confirmed local show is at Lost & Found, a place that bills itself as a “cocktail lounge,” in St. Petersburg on Friday, Aug. 30. (Don’t expect lounge music.)

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This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2024.