MAY 16TH & 17TH 7PM

My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains

Music of the Carter Family, Appalachian folk traditions, & beyond with award-winning Appalachian Folk Singer-Songwriter, Ash Devine.

Coming all the way from the Blue Ridge Mountain region of southwestern VA, Ash Devine weaves an evening of song, story, and traditional tunes from the Appalachian regions featuring music of Maybelle Carter & the legendary Carter Family band, country blues master Leslie Riddle, and ballads collected by traditional bearers of the southern Appalachian region. Throughout the show, Devine discusses the historic folkloric contributions from song collectors in the southern Appalachian region such as Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles, Bascom & Lunsford, Olive Dame Campbell, the Carter Family, Leslie Riddle, and later, contemporary folklorists such as Mike Seeger, Jean Richie, and Sheila Kay Adams.

Ash Devine is an accomplished songwriter, ukulele and guitar player, performance artist, educator, and community-based arts facilitator whose work is influenced by her upbringing in the Blue Ridge mountains, and by her international travels to perform in healthcare facilities with Patch Adams M.D. Born and raised in the Appalachian region of southwestern VA, Ash Devine lived in Asheville, NC for over 17 years where she developed her songwriting career and delved into her roots in the Appalachian folk music traditions. Ash tours nationally and internationally, performing over 100 shows per year in reputable music venues, festivals, house concerts, healthcare facilities, and educational settings.

www.ashdevine.net

Devine is known as a true ‘folk troubadour’ because she writes, collects, and performs cross-genre music based on numerous folk traditions including original Americana & indie-folk-rock, traditional Appalachian old-time, contemporary folk, country blues, historic bluegrass, folk revival, classic rock, and international folk music. Ash has self-produced two albums of original music and is working on two more, including a traditional Appalachian and folk legacy compilation.

In 2022, Ash was a featured songwriter at the Forbes Center for Performing Arts on NPR’s Acoustic Cafe songwriter series Songstress Sojourn which was recorded in front of a live audience. In 2015, Ash starred as Maybelle Carter of the legendary Carter Family band and musically directed the play Esley: The Life and Music of Lesley Riddle, where she closely replicated Maybelle’s iconic Carter scratch guitar style. Devine collaborates and performs alongside numerous acclaimed musicians and folklorists such as Sheila Kay Adams, David Holt, Paula Bradley, Andy Cohen, Eleanor Ellis, Patch Adams, M.D., and many more.

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