ABOUT

Ashley Virginia is a North Carolina–based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, educator, and organizer whose work centers grassroots community building, radical listening spaces, and folk traditions as living culture. Her artistry lives at the crossroads of cosmic Americana, classic country, and ’60s rock ’n’ roll. Her impact reaches far beyond the stage.

Her songwriting has been praised by Americana Highways as “raw, contemporary angst,” and her sound has been likened to the spiritual daughter of Linda Ronstadt and Paul McCartney; drifting between ’70s country cool, West Coast cosmic Americana, and ’60s rock ’n’ roll.

Ashley’s recorded work reflects her commitment to creative autonomy. She has co-produced every release in her catalog, and her most recent album, “all in the music” marks her first fully self-produced record. Recorded during a month-long retreat at the Treehouse of Center Hill in Smithville, TN, Ashley served as the sole songwriter, producer, audio engineer, and mix engineer. She performs every instrument on the album, creating a singular, self-contained artistic statement.

As a queer and neurodivergent artist, Ashley’s work centers vulnerability, collective care, and liberation. Her songwriting explores healing, resilience, social justice, and shared humanity; functioning both as personal medicine and a call to connection. In 2026, she will serve as a panelist at Folk Alliance International on “Tracing and Reclaiming Feminist Rhetoric in Folk Protest Music.”

Whether building songwriter ecosystems, producing records alone in a treehouse, or inviting rooms of strangers into shared breath and song, Ashley Virginia is cultivating a living folk culture one voice, one story, and one listening space at a time.