Anya Hinkle feat. Billy Cardine

Anya Hinkle feat. Billy Cardine

With vivid storytelling, vibrant musicianship and arresting honesty, Asheville, NC-based songwriter Anya Hinkle’s music is steeped in the tones of folk and bluegrass and seasoned by travels across the world. A founding member of Asheville, NC-based bands Dehlia Low (Rebel Records) and Tellico (Organic Records), Anya released the first full-length album under her own name, “Eden And Her Borderlands,” in July 2021 on Organic Records. Hinkle won the 2019 MerleFest Chris Austin Songwriting Competition and was runner-up in the 2022 International Acoustic Music Awards in 2022. Anya tours across the U.S., Japan and Europe. She will release her newest album, OCEANIA, in 2024, produced by legendary Irish producer Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinéad O’Connor) and featuring brilliant Irish guitarist John Doyle (Solas, Tim O’Brien, Joan Baez) and innovative slide guitarist Billy Cardine. More info at https://anyahinkle.com/bio-epk.

Billy Cardine has been recognized as a slide guitar pioneer, taking the Dobro with him into unchartered genres. Dobro master Jerry Douglas calls him “…an amazing Dobro player...He is fluent in everything that I do and…everybody that has come before. I couldn’t…pick a better example of where the Dobro is now or what the possibilities are with the instrument.” An internationally featured artist, he tours and teaches in India, Japan, Europe and Canada. More info at https://billycardine.com/epk.