ASH DEVINE WITH OPENING ACT MATTHEW SABATELLA AND KAREN FELDNER

Ash Devine

with special guests Karen Feldner and Matthew Sabatella

The award-winning and versatile Appalachian-indie-folk-country-fusion singer-songwriter, performance artist, and arts program designer Ash Devine is based the Blue Ridge Mountains of Blacksburg, VA and Asheville, North Carolina. Devine is known has been referred to as one of the last ‘true folk troubadours’ and she is known for her unique finger-style ukulele and guitar sound, and for her participation in humanitarian efforts through music, education, and the arts. In addition to producing several albums of original music, Ash has performed and studied along side Nobel peace prize nominee Patch Adams M.D., Smithsonian folk ways award winner Sheila Kay Adams, Grammy award nominee David Holt, and a number of other renowned folklorists, musicians, and social activists. Her versatile Appalachian folk revival-fusion sound is bursting with stylistic variety, relatable story, and historical facts. Her music is influenced in style by Traditional Appalachian, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jean Richie, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Maybelle Carter, Leslie Riddle, Ani Difranco, Kate Wolfe, Bob Dylan, and reggae/world music influences such as the Wailers, Jimmy Cliff, and west African traditional music.