Amythyst Kiah

Amythyst studies old time music at East Tennessee State University; she received her B.A. in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies, and is continuing to study music at the graduate level in Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. She is a member of the East Tennessee State University Old Time Pride Band. She also works part-time at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum as an assistant researcher, and plays quite often in the Southwest Virginia area. She has opened for Tim O'Brien, and she has played at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival 2012 alongside the Ebony Hillbillies and Sparky and Rhonda Rucker. She also played "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" with Wayne Henderson for the Crooked Road Edition of Virginia Tourism Coporation's Web Series. Places she has played: Paramount Theater, Music on the Square, Jonesborough Days, The Down Home, Border Bash, Carter Fold, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, Tennessee Shines, WDVX Blue Plate Special, Studio One on WETS, Song of the Mountains,and the cities of Luka, Bojkovice, and Olomouc in the Czech Republic. She has a self-titled EP recorded May 2011, recorded and mixed by Grammy -Award Winning Recording Engineer Martin Walters (Esperanza Spalding, Spyro Gyra). It is currently available at all of her shows, and she will be in the studio in the summer to record her first full-length album that is yet to be named. Stay tuned...