Elizabeth Devlin
Elizabeth Devlin has performed at Puppet Playlist.
"Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky." -TimeOUT NY
Devlin invokes influences from scratchy phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies. After recording "Ladybug", a two song LP, fated for release on 7"vinyl this upcoming Spring '10, Elizabeth plans to release a second full-length album in 2010, details to be announced.
Papa Devlin fancied himself a gypsy and traveled the coast peddling his one-man-band street performance; Momma was a writer, who tended many children and hand sewed puppets to sell on the DC streets. Pulling these things to her, Elizabeth's performance art began as lyrical, melodic, acapella poetry but soon blossomed into an electroacoustic sound when she began to play the Autoharp.
Following Elizabeth's debut, self-released, full-length album, All Are Relative in Dec '08, she toured the US as back-up singer for Larkin Grimm in February of '09 before traveling to Quebec, to play several solo shows with fellow NYC musician Dan Costello & French-Canadian duo, Geneviève et Matthieu. In Spring '09, Elizabeth traveled to Austin, TX with Philadelphia band Hermit Thrushes, playing several SXSW unofficial showcases along the way. Following SXSW, Elizabeth embarked on a solo tour of Ireland and England with friend Shawn Butler (BNS Sessions) playing shows in Bundoran , London, Manchester, and Hull before boarding a plane to Zurich where she joined Dan Costello, to continue her solo tour, playing shows in cities throughout Germany, France and Switzerland!
Aside from extensive touring, Devlin continues to work on projects with other musicians, poets and artists. In March '09, Devlin was approached by the Canadian underground poet & performance artist Alice P. Ougler regarding her book, entitled These Poems. Elizabeth recorded "Dead Weight Tonnage" for The Ougler Sessions, a compilation album which will include several musician's interpretations of Ougler's poems. These Poems, along with "The Ougler Sessions," is fated for publication in Summer 2010, Smockadoll Förlag/Press, Malmoe, Sweden.
Also in 2009, Elizabeth collaborated with Moselle Spiller and Indira Cesarine, to create a multimedia art piece to accompany her song “Gatsby”, recently released in KALEIDOSCOPIC, the first issue of the on-line fashion and culture magazine, XXXX Magazine. The product of over 100 contributors, the magazine showcases original productions of conceptual film, contemporary art, conceptual fashion, photography and multimedia as well as addresses controversial topics in the media via documentary shorts.
Devlin is the two-time recipient of the Common Ground On the Hill, Roots Music & Arts Memorial Scholarship through which, she attended Traditions Music Workshops in 2007 & 2008. Also in 2008, Elizabeth was awarded the Mary Lou Orthey Scholarship to attend the Mt. Laurel Autoharp Gathering where she received the Leonard A. Reid Peoples Choice Award for Outstanding Vocal Performance.
