Anya Hinkle makes Oct. 16 show at BAC in Carson City a benefit for Asheville, NC hurricane relief
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Wed, 10/09/2024 - 1:05pm
Asheville, NC-based roots artist Anya Hinkle teams up with Grammy-nominated NYC-based guitarist Chris Luquette for an intimate exploration of acoustic music, rooted in the sounds of Appalachia and seasoned by travels across the globe. The upcoming Carson City show will be a part of an Asheville Recovery Tour, with proceeds benefitting families and organizations as Asheville recovers from Hurricane Helene.
Event Date:
October 16, 2024 - 7:00pm The performance is Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center, Grand Ballroom, 449 W King St, Carson City. Tickets are $20.
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Originally from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Anya Hinkle's music is steeped in the tones of folk and mountain music and seasoned by travels across the world with vivid storytelling, vibrant musicianship and arresting honesty. Her diverse influences have brought her into creating her own form of world-inspired Americana while staying true to her roots. Americana Highways writes about her latest album Oceania (2024, Red Parlor Records),“This North Carolina singer-songwriter has an engagingly smooth-toned classic vocal with an album that appears to be pop tunes but isn’t. She’s the real thing – melodic with rich traditional instincts.”
Oceania was produced by veteran Irish producer Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinéad O’Connor), featuring Celtic guitar legend John Doyle and slide guitar master Billy Cardine. Americana UK says, “Hinkle delivers an absorbing vocal performance, full of character and soul…with her own distinctive sound,” while Americana Highways declares the album “one of the year’s best.” RnR Magazine (UK) says "Her vocal style…has a mix of purity, intensity and richness but never strays into cliché…it mirrors the music itself, individual, distinctive, and deeply satisfying.” Songs from the album were featured on No Depression and Folk Alley’s “Best Of” playlists and the track “Eitil Away” won the USA Songwriting Competition in the World Category.
Lauded as “a darling of the Americana scene” by Bluegrass Today and described by PopMatters as "a burgeoning force behind the Appalachian roots revival,” with Oceania, Anya has reached a new peak in her career, one that’s yielded ten albums to date across her solo albums and collaborations. After obtaining her Ph.D. in ethnobotany from the University of California at Berkeley, she eventually opted to leave academia, seduced by bluegrass and finding greater rewards making music, first as a member of the Asheville-based bluegrass/Americana band Dehlia Low (Rebel Records), and later with the group Tellico (Organic Records).
Anya was a first-place winner the 2019 Merlefest Chris Austin song contest and runner-up in the 2022 International Acoustic Music Awards. Her 2018 record "Relics and Roses" (w/ Tellico, Organic Records) debuted at #2 on the folk DJ charts with a #1 single in her song “Courage for the Morning.”
Hinkle has played many of the major US roots festivals including MerleFest, Richmond Folk Festival, Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, Earl Scruggs Festival, FallGrass/Planet Bluegrass, Bristol Rhythm & Roots; in Europe she has headlined at La Roche and Grenna Bluegrass festivals and tours annually in both Europe and Japan. Hinkle will tour extensively in the US, Europe and Japan in 2024 in support of the album.
Chris Luquette is a 2 time Grammy nominated guitarist from Seattle Washington. He spent 11 years touring with renowned progressive bluegrass combo Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. FSDK performed on 4 continents, played the legendary Grand Ol Opry in Nashville twice, and made appearances at such festivals as Telluride Bluegrass, Wintergrass, RockyGrass and DelFest.
