Kimaya Diggs Releases New Single “Plants (Still Grow)” | WATCH NEW VIDEO! New Album “Green” Coming October 2nd, 2026 | Announces Tour Dates for 2026-27
Kimaya Diggs finds belonging in the wild green of New England summer
on new single “Plants (Still Grow)”
As the days grow shorter, Diggs looks back on a season of love, land, and memory from new album Green, out October 2nd
Western Massachusetts musician, songwriter, poet, producer, and world-builder Kimaya Diggs has shared “Plants (Still Grow),” the latest single from her forthcoming album Green, out October 2nd. The song arrives alongside an accompanying music video directed by Eli Howe.
“Plants (Still Grow)” is a love letter to New England summer and the kind of intimacy that can make a place feel briefly, unmistakably like home. As the calendar begins to turn toward fall, the song carries the glow of a season already becoming memory, lingering on the moments that define a relationship in real time: “Make me laugh while we make / All the memories that will define / Who we are / When we look back on this summer.”
Inspired by the lush greens and rivers surrounding Diggs’ house on the rural side of town, “Plants (Still Grow)” brings one of Green’s central questions into focus: does belonging come from knowing the land around you, or from the people you choose to build a life with? Across the song, Diggs lets those answers blur together, turning a private summer portrait into something larger about place, desire, memory, and the chosen communities that make outsiders feel less alone.
The accompanying music video, directed by Eli Howe, extends that world visually, grounding the song in the New England landscape that runs throughout Green.
“So much of Green explores the concept of home: does a sense of belonging come from intimately knowing the land that you inhabit, or does it come from the people you surround yourself with?” Diggs says. “For me, it’s a little of both, and it oscillates over time: my sense of community evolves.”
That joy, however, exists alongside something more complicated. Diggs describes Green as a record deeply rooted in New England, while also acknowledging the tension of being a Black and Desi artist in a mostly white farm town.
“Plants (Still Grow)” follows previously released Green singles “I Know That I’m Perfect” and “Dance With Me.” On “I Know That I’m Perfect,” Diggs channels rage through a distorted microphone made from an old telephone, responding to an ex-boyfriend who tried to coerce her into having children. The song became, in her words, a conduit for “the rage that comes with being made a side character in a man’s story.” “Dance With Me,” meanwhile, is lighter on its feet, rooted in the joy and delight of coming from a family of dancers and encouraging a partner to join in, which he eventually does.
Green is the first album Diggs feels she could sing with the full power of her restored voice, following vocal surgery seven years ago and a long process of rebuilding. It is also the album where she allowed herself to take fuller control of the recording process. She knew she wanted it anchored by groove and a natural, living feel, so she began with the drummer. Wherever the right drummer was, she decided, she would go there.
That led her to Nashville, where she recorded basic tracks over three days at Barnfire Creative with drummer Erick Slick of Dr. Dog and a band assembled with help from bassist Rhees Williams, a longtime friend from her performing arts high school days. Jacob Rosazza and Ben Sanders provided additional production, with mixing by Scott Hundley. Diggs engineered roughly a quarter of the record herself.
In the studio, she arrived with a full sense of each song’s emotional center. “I know what this story is supposed to be,” she says. “And I think that is what I need to get the story told.”
That confidence runs through Green. The album moves through indie pop, soul, R&B, folk, rock, and spoken word, but never feels scattered. Its cohesion comes from Diggs’ own framework, what she thinks of as a three-dimensional matrix: each song placed in relationship to the others, closer to or farther from the album’s guiding questions about home, change, and goodness.
The sound reaches back to the music closest to her heart: Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Minnie Riperton, Donny Hathaway, Lauryn Hill, D’Angelo, and, above all, Corinne Bailey Rae. Diggs still remembers hearing “Put Your Records On” in a shoe store as a child, asking her mother for a notebook, standing under the speaker to write down the lyrics she could catch, then bringing them to a librarian, who helped her find the CD. When Bailey Rae sang a line celebrating a Black girl’s natural hair, Diggs cried.
“I had never heard a song where I saw myself reflected,” she says. “I felt almost like a whole new life path suddenly unrolled in front of me.”
Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, near the edge of the Mount Holyoke College campus, Diggs grew up the oldest of three sisters in a home filled with music and movement. Her parents were dancers; the house rang with 1970s soul and funk, classical music, show tunes, and much else. She played cello, sang with her sisters, and toured libraries and schools in a sibling trio called Knock a Noodlehead Sister Singers. Performance was never separate from writing for her. It completed the circuit.
That sense of world-building now extends across Green, including a music video for every song on the album. “Plants (Still Grow)” offers one of the clearest windows into the album’s living landscape: land as memory, desire, unease, refuge, and evidence. It is a love letter to New England summer, and to the people and places that teach us how to grow.
Diggs will celebrate Green with a hometown album release show at Northampton’s Academy of Music Theatre on October 10th, with support from Alisa Amador, followed by Northeast, Southeast, and West Coast tour dates into early 2027, including a January appearance supporting Mavis Staples at Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham, WA.
Photo Credit: Jo Chattman
KIMAYA DIGGS TOUR DATES
10/10 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre
10/13 – Keene, NH – Nova Arts
10/14 – Providence, RI – The Parlour
10/15 – Rochester, NY – Bar Bad Ending
10/16 – Burlington, VT – Radio Bean
10/17 – Boston, MA – Lizard Lounge
10/18 – New York, NY – Nublu Classic
10/22 – Westerly, RI – Studio 39A
10/23 – Windsor, CT – Windsor Art Center
10/30 – Putney, VT – NextStage Arts
11/5 – Nashville, TN – The 5 Spot
11/6 – Athens, GA – Hendershot’s
11/7 – Atlanta, GA – House Concert
11/8 – Durham, NC – The Pinhook
11/10 – Knoxville, TN – The Light
11/11 – Charlotte, NC – Snug Harbor
11/12 – Asheville, NC – Sly Grog Lounge
11/13 – Chattanooga, TN – The Pilot Light
2027
1/15 – Bellingham, WA – House Show
1/15 – Bellingham, WA – Mount Baker Theatre with Mavis Staples
1/17 – Seattle, WA – Ballard Homestead
1/18 – Portland, OR – Jack London Revue
1/20 – Santa Rosa, CA – Lost Church
1/21 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Crepe Place
1/22 – Oakland, CA – Castle in the Sky
1/23 – Los Angeles, CA – Oblivion
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