Newport Live welcomes a very special artist, Phoebe Hunt, premiering her new solo album, “Nothing Else Matters,” on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Newport Art Museum. Tickets can be purchased on EventBrite or at Newport Live.

Phoebe Hunt’s sparse and vulnerable new album feels like an exercise in stripping things away — peeling back all the layers to get to the heart of who and what she really is. After years of writing, recording, and touring as a band member and bandleader, her latest recording finds her as a woman standing alone, just her voice and her fiddle. In that empty space left behind, Nothing Else Matters is an album that asks many questions, the most central being, “Is this enough? Am I enough?”

Whereas the fiddle and voice are often the final elements, or icing on the cake of a full band recording, this project explores what it sounds like when the fiddle and vocals represent the whole cake. Drawing from 30 years spent studying the violin/fiddle, Hunt interweaves her classical upbringing with Appalachian Old Time, Texas Swing, and a maturity of songwriting that creates an unfiltered, raw expression dripping with palpable vulnerability.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase, along with soft drinks and water.